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China Food Expo to open on November 15
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:24
According to the press conference on China Food Expo 2013, China Food Expo is to open in Ningbo International Conference and Exhibition Center from November 15 to 18. Compared with the past years, China Food Expo 2013 is the largest in scale and over 50% of the food on the Expo are imported foods.
China Food Expo this year is jointly organized by Zhejiang People's Government, China Federation of Commerce and China National Light Industry Council. The expo will open in 9 halls, 7 temporary halls and 2 permanent ones. The exhibition area totals 76,000 square meters, with 3,800 exhibition stalls. Besides the food of famous Ningbo local brands, the expo will have foods of leading enterprises from Fujian, Tianjin, Hainan, Guizhou, Chongqing and Changchun.
The Expo will have food enterprises from over 30 countries and regions, including top wine suppliers from 10 countries like France, Italy, Australia, USA and Argentina. A half of Hall 1 will be for imported food, and Hall 2 is completely for imported food, like home appliances, like wine and milk products. 80% of Hall 8 is for food from Taiwan. Together with the exhibits in the two permanent exhibition halls, the imported food will cover over 50% of the food commodities. It is noted that the expo this year will have over 200 Taiwan delegations, with over 2,50 exhibition stalls. The Taiwan exhibition area in the expo is the largest so far in Mainland China.
In the expo there will be a series of economic and trade activities, including the purchasing fair of top 100 enterprises, fair of large chain purchasers, and fair of Ningbo quality farm products. At present, Over 100 enterprises including some top 100 enterprises will come to the expo. And at the same time, During China Food Expo 2013, "China Food Forum" will open. The topic of the forum will be "the digital epoch and the food industry". The forum will release the list of top 100 food enterprises of China. There will be activities like elections of "Most Favored Food Brands of Zhejiang" and Awards of China Food Expo.
