The First China International Manufacturing Equipment Expo will be held from August 30 to September 5, 2002 in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China?s Liaoning Province. The expo will showcase the world?s most advanced manufacturing equipment and technologies in the province, known as China?s cradle of the heavy industry.
The expo, which will run from August 30 to September 5, 2002, will be devoted to displaying the world?s most advanced manufacturing equipment and technologies, according to expo planners. Occupying a place of 48,000 square meters, the exhibition will provide 2,000 exhibition booths in Shenyang International Exhibition Center. The exhibits fall into some ten categories including mechanic processing, telecom, auto industry, packaging, printing, foodstuff, chemicals, farm produce processing, environmental protection, and robot and industrial automation.
A wide range of activities will also be offered during the expo such as seminars, a processing trade fair, trade talks of machinery transfer overseas and technological exchanges.
The host of the expo Shenyang is in Liaoning Province. Shenyang alone has 60,000 modern industrial enterprises. It is hoped that holding this international exposition will bring Shenyang a good chance to cooperate with foreign partners to accelerate the modernization drive of the old industrial city.
The expo has already caught the attention of prominent manufacturers and enterprises as well as news media. Its recent news conference attracted 400 foreign commercial officials, Chinese and foreign entrepreneurs and journalists.
The expo is jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Cooperation, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the provincial government of Liaoning and is co-organized by the China Machinery Import and Export Council, the Municipal government of Shenyang and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Liaoning branch.
(www.keyanhelp.cn November 22 by staff reporter Su Xiangdong and translated by Guo Xiaohong)
