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1,500 international standard booths, over 700 exhibiting companies, 50,000 professional purchasers among which over 4,000 overseas purchasers, over 30 overseas purchasing groups; a target trade volume of over 1.5 billion yuan, among which over 40% export volume. Branch Exhibition Sites International Trade City Publication Center Antique Market Yiwu Museum Retrospect There were 1,500 exhibition booths with international standards wet up in the last fair and 687 companies have attended the exhibition. 50,967 professionals attended the fair, of whom outbound professional visitors reached 3,112. Sales volume of the last fair mounted to 1.36 billion RMB, of which the volume of foreign trade reached 736 million RMB. Contacts Organization Committee of China Yiwu International Cultural Products Trade Fair Add:F3,Hall A, Meihu Exhibition Center, Yiwu Tel:0086-579-5415195 5415125 Fax:0086-579-5415777 Contact:Ms Chen Mr.Yang   Being in the center of Zhejiang Province. Yiwu enjoys a geographical advantage, connecting with Guangdong and Fujian Provinces to the south, with the Shanghai economic region to the north, and the large seaport of Ningbo to the east. It is only 300 kilometers away from Shanghai, the biggest city of China, and 120 kilometers away from Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province.

Exhibition Item Cultural & Sports Articles: products for students, products for education, office supplies, writing instruments, art supplies, paper products, stationery & presents, products for celebration, printing products, sports products, fitting apparatues, outdoor leisure products, and intelligence toys Cultural Articles: Folk handicrafts, picture frame, products for celebration, pottery. sculpture, handcrafts, and souvenirs Paintings & Curios: Paintings, curios, and collection Performance, Media & Originality: Troupe exhibition, performance apparatues, audio-visual appliance, exhibition and trading of performance products Digital film and TV, film and equipment products, digital products for entertainment, cyber-companies, animated movie, cartoon, games and related products Advertisement designing, stage art designing image designing, decoration designing and design for handicraft of framed pictures decoration designing and design for handicraft of framed pictures    Layout of Exhibition Halls A:Cultural & Sports Articles Hall C:Cultural & Sports Articles Hall(Exquisite Hall) D:Cultural & Sports Articles Hall(Asia Pacific Hall) B:Cultural Articles Hall E:Performance, Media and Originality Hall(Comprehensive Hall) F:Calligraphy, Painting, and Antique Hall Percentages Exhibition-attending Industries Occupied Regional Share of the Previous Fair    Yiwu, A City Built on Market Located in the center of Zhejiang Province, Yiwu covers an area of 1,105 square kilometers, with a total population of 1.6 million, among which 1 million are non- local residents. In terms of urban comprehensive development level and competitiveness, Yiwu ranks 12th among the top 100 counties of the country and the first place among the country- level cities of Zhejiang Province respectively. Yiwu is vividly compared to a city built on the market. In 1982, Yiwu took the lead in setting up the commodities wholesale market. For more than 20 years, Yiwu has been insisting the development strategy of “building the city on commerce”. Since 1991, the trade volume ranks the top for 14 successive years; Yiwu thereby becomes the celebrated commercial city on the globe. It was honored to be Most Favorite City in China in 2004, ranking No. 10 in the list of domestic cities and No. 1 in country- level cities . Beside Yiwu is the first country county- level city that issues visas and residence permit to foreigners. Covering a total business area of 2.6 million square with 58,000 booths and 200,000 business people, Yiwu market gathers 100,000 kinds of goods in 1,900 categories. At present, foreign companies have set up 615 business organizations in Yiwu, Commodities in the market have been export to over 212 countries and regions. Annual export reaches 400,000 standard containers. Over 8,000 foreign business people are residing in Yiwu.    Yiwu Relying on Market Advantage Fostering Cultural Industry Yiwu cultural industry has development rapidly due to the strong radiation effects of the markets, As the main sales base and manufacturing base of cultural good, Yiwu has formed a production sales collaborative model. At present, it has five competitive industries on cultural products, educational supply, sports articles, painting frames, New Years’ painting, wall calendars, audio & video products, picture and painting, New Year’s painting, wall calends, printing goods equipments, Cultural & sports goods and modern office products etc, amount to 1000,000 categories, According to the statistics, there are over 10,000 enterprise and trading units dealing with cultural products in Yiwu, with the total market turnover of 100 billion RMB in 2005, and 300,000 people rare engaged in this industry. The booming of cultural industry has endowed Yiwu with the fresh impetus for regional economic competition.