More than 600 Chinese tech companies are expected to attend and showcase their technologies and services at the CeBIT 2015, the biggest international computer expo in the world, from March 16 to March 20 in Hanover, Germany.

CeBIT is a German language acronym which stands for the "Center for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunication". It is held annually at the Hanover fairground, the largest fairground in the world.

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The tech giants to attend the event include telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.; the world's third largest smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc.; computer manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd.; e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.; software companies Kingsoft and Neusoft Corporatio;, telecom equipment firms Datang Telecom and ZTE Corporation, among others.

Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, will give the keynote address at the upcoming event. The Chinese companies will occupy over 2,500 square meters of space to display their goods and services.

Oliver Frese, a top exhibition executive, said China's massive presence makes the country the largest and strongest partner ever seen at the CeBIT.

"The partnership between China and the CeBIT is an essential component of Sino-German innovation cooperation in the field of information technology" said Frese.

"China was known as a supplier of components and later as a supplier of hardware, smartphones, tablets and also PCs," said Hartwig Von Sass, a CeBIT spokesperson.

"Now China has numerous companies that have become world leaders ... for example Huawei, ZTE, Neusoft or Alibaba, some of which are far bigger than western IT companies. We see this as a shift on the world map: digitization is going east."

China's participation at the CeBIT 2015 will be staged under the motto of "Innovation, Convergence, Cooperation".

Recently, Chinese firms Haier Group, Midea Group and Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. unveiled their products at the Appliance and Electronics World Expo (AWE) 2015 last March 11 to 14 in Shanghai.

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