About 400 Ningbo companies to attend East China Fair

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Monday, 06 February 2012 09:59

It is learned on March 22 from a meeting of delegation leaders for East China Fair that the 22nd East China Fair is to open in Shanghai International Exposition Center from March 1 to 5. About 400 companies of foreign trade in Ningbo will attend the fair.

This fair is this year's first largest foreign trade fair in China called one of the "weather cocks" of the foreign trade of household necessities in China for the first half of this year. Reportedly, The 22nd East China Fair will have 10 exhibition halls, one hall more than the last year, wit the area for the exhibition totals 115,000 square meters. There will be four exhibition areas for clothes, textile products, gifts and household necessities. The area for household necessities will have three sections of domestic goods, electric products and other consumer goods. There will be 5,800 exhibition stalls.

According to Ningbo delegation, this year, the Ningbo delegation will rent 483 stalls, increased by 10% over the same period of last year. About 400 companies will go the fair, increased by 30% over last year. In terms of the number of participants to the fair, Ningbo ranks the fourth of all the 14 delegations. Ningbo is one of the major manufacturing bases in East China. This year, Ningbo will use 71% of stall for the display of clothes and household appliances.