Helping small and micro enterprises go global
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- Category: Ningbo Business
- Published: Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:21
It is learned from the organizing committee of 11th CICGF that as a major activity of this year's session, the "2012 Foreign Trade Enterprises Expo" will be held between June 8 and 11. The exhibitors are mainly small and micro enterprises.
The expo will have 890 booths with a total area of 25,000 square meters in No.7 and No.8 Halls of Ningbo International Convention and Exhibition Center. The main exhibits are handicrafts, gifts, car accessories, cosmetics, textiles and garments, shoes, hats and bags, leather wares and hardware and machinery. Besides, such joint-stock banks and local banks as Minsheng Bank, Merchants Bank, Everbright Bank, Ningbo Bank, Yinzhou Bank and Mintai Commercial Bank are invited to provide financing services for small and micro enterprises on-site.
According to a survey by Ningbo Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation Bureau, there are over 7000 small and micro enterprises (with exports below five million dollars) in Ningbo, accounting for 70% of the total number of enterprises involved in exports. Over 600 small and micro enterprises form East China, one third of them being Ningbo enterprises, have applied to participate this year's Foreign Trade Enterprises Expo. Reportedly, some small and micro enterprises, such as those mold and stationary enterprises in Ninghai County and textile and accessories enterprises in Yinzhou District, will attend the expo as groups
