First national pen drawing show to be held during Yiwu Cultural Fair

It was learned recently from the organizing committee of 2009 China Yiwu Cultural Fair that this fair will include the first national pen drawing show, where Yiwu citizens could appreciate about 50 wonderful pen drawings created by 18 painters from 11 provinces nationwide at that moment. The pen drawings show, organized by the retired officials of the Ministry of Railways, will attract Hu Tailiang , a Yiwu painter working in Beijing, to demonstrate his wonderful skills to Yiwu people . According to the introduction, Hu has been passionate about painting ever since his childhood and created excellent pen drawing series on the subjects of Beijing alleys, people and steam engines . Most of his works are focused on Beijin galleys, which are displayed through delicate brushwork,

exquisite drawing, harmonious composition, and skillful contrast between light and dark, giving a strong sense of high quality . Those drawings look like old photos .
Hu was very excited when talking about this Yiwu Cultural Fair . He said that as soon as he received the invitation from the organizing committee of the cultural fair, he contacted several famous pen drawing painters and decided to hold an excellent pen drawing show. Hu hopes the introduction of pen drawing to Yiwu and its local development could help to improve the city’s cultural level. To get well-prepared for the 2009 Yiwu Cultural Fair, Hu has been creating the pen drawing series named My Fantastic Hometown - Yiwu in these days . His first piece of the series, which is about the woodcarving of lions in the Huangshan Eight-side Hall, has been finished after more than 100 hours of careful drawing .
The age-old appearance of the woodcarving, the looks of lions and the texture of the wood are all fully displayed in this drawing. Hu said that he would draw more pictures about Yiwu to show his strong yearning toward hometown.

It was learned that in spite of the negative influence from the global financial crisis, there lated departments in different places were busy setting

It was learned that in spite of the negative influence from the global financial crisis, there lated departments in different places were busy setting up teams in preparation for attending Yiwu Cultural Fair and enterprises were applying for entries to this fair as enthusiastically as ever.Up till now, 1, 500 booths have almost all been booked .

A unique Yiwu fair of  style Yiwu held the first cultural fair in 2006 and gained immediate and conspicuous achievements, which, together with Hangzhou cartoon & animation industry fair, has become the two largest exhibitions of Zhejiang cultural industry . In 2008, the fair's turnover reached 1.86 billion yuan .And the trade achievements of Yiwu cultural fair are among the best in the country, thus honored as "the exclusive domestic foreign-tradeoriented fair in cultural industry".

There are many cultural fairs in other cities around the country ."Yiwu Cultural Fair has been held for several times, which is always distinguished from other cultural fairs by its unique Yiwu style, " said some executive of the fair's organizing committee .As an important production and sales base, Yiwu enjoys a huge variety and number of cultural products; besides,  by taking advantage of the city's high foreign-orientation, developed cultural industry and numerous foreign businessmen, Yiwu Cultural Fair has gained much better world fame than others .

　According to in-group sources, the cultural fair and its differentiated focus on cultural products are both the inevitable choice of market and the result of government workfollowing the trend, which makes Yiwu Cultural Fair a unique fair among all cultural exhibitions across the country and an important platform for promoting the cultural development of Zhejiang Province and China. 1, 500 booths already reserved With its unique advantages, Yiwu has held successive excellent cultural fairs .This year is no exception, in spite of the global economic crisis. Although the fair is still one month away, almost all booths have been reserved. Till March 27, 675 enterprises had applied for participating in the exhibition. Yu Dongmin, the person in charge of investment and exhibition attraction for the cultural fair, said with a relief that he had worried about the scale of the fair, because enterprises were always the main part of an exhibition but this year many of them saw their profits going down. But now, he is very confident and the relevant departments nationwide have taken an active part in the preparation for the fair and urged enterprises to attend the exhibition . Presently, the participation delegations from other provinces are generally fixed, including Guangdong's Chaozhou, Fujian's Dehua and Jiangxi's Jingdezhen. Delegations from Ningbo, Lishui and other cities of Zhejiang Province have each booked over 40 booths, remaining close to that of last year . Furthermore, the numbers of booths reserved by some special groups, like Zhoushan City Image, Shengzhou Art Village, Hangzhou Collection, Pujiang Painting & Calligraphy and Lin'an Bloodstone, have maintained or even exceeded those of the previous year.

Exhibitors remain passionate "We booked 4 booths in each of last two fairs and got good results from the exhibition. Despite the influence of the financial crisis, we have booked 4 booths too this year, " said Wu Shengrong, chairperson of Guangzhou New Century Paper Co., Ltd . His company benefits a lot from Yiwu Cultural Fair and many businessmen coming from EU and the Middle East have cooperative relationships with him. The main reason why his firm has developed so fast is that the cultural fair has helped broaden its foreign market .

Ningbo government has attached great importance to this fair and will decorate its 40 booths to form a unique style. It is learned from the person in charge of the bureau of culture,  press, publication, radio and television that they have participated in Yiwu Cultural Fair for 3 consecutive years and the enterprises are willing to exhibit their products .Through the platform of Yiwu Cultural Fair, they can not only display the fruitful results of Ningbo cultural industry, but also promote the brand building, as well as product competitiveness, influence and fame .

Yiwu market be able to lead the trend of Living

Yesterday afternoon, to come to our city website for the first national home construction experts forum, "Top Ten site" website with representatives and visited the thesis on behalf of International Trade City. During the visit, the number of online media experts in their minds about the Yiwu market, Yiwu market and how to enhance the publicity suggested.

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Want to play a resource advantages

Zhejiang Online Editor-in-Chief Chen Jianhua is "Yiwu Tong", he said to Yiwu has N times, but each has a different feel and experience.

Chen said that Yiwu success can have its own unique culture in support. The spirit of the pioneering task of Yiwu merchants, as well as the quality of being honest and trustworthy, that is one of the essence.

Say the market can not be separated from the topic of financial crisis. Chen believes that the financial crisis in the media to guide public opinion to play a role in overcoming the financial crisis firmly grasp of a typical upgrade to deal with the crisis of confidence in everyone. "Yiwu has done a good job in this regard. Yiwu News Network to further good use of their own conditions and resources, the International Trade City, and the Internet connection, put themselves outside the international business city of an important platform for propaganda." As Zhejiang Extension of the web online, Chen Yiwu News Network on the development of high hopes.

To adjust the most persuasive publicity

Communication University of China School of Journalism Dean dissemination of Professor Deng Xinxin, seen in other cities in the "Yiwu Commodity City." When he was outside the International Trade City, the "market" concept in his mind with the 180 degree change.

"International Trade City hardware give up a lot of visual impact, I did not expect this to improve the hardware facilities. At the same time, commodity market highly concentrated, highly detailed, these are not thought of me."

Professor Deng Xinxin that want publicity, Yiwu market, as long as a typical grasp the obvious. He believes that the UNHCR to set up purchasing centers in Yiwu, Yiwu has fully demonstrated the market is not only a wide range of goods, at the same time have developed logistics system. Seize the UNHCR to set up purchasing centers to promote the typical Yiwu, Yiwu market into the world so that it is persuasive strategy.

Yiwu market, be able to lead the trend of Living

"I had 10 years to come to Yiwu, Yiwu that time was dynamic, surging around the entrepreneurial passion." Xinhua assistant editor-in-chief, said the trip to Yiwu, Yiwu He was now become international , modernization and standardization of the.

Mr Fang said that Yiwu market is necessary to comply with its own position and to highlight the types of merchandise at Commodity Index, the authority and so on. Yiwu market trends and be able to lead the life of fashion trends, the future of the Yiwu market is necessary to guide the focus, through the Yiwu market, so everyone can see the future of life.

Officials of Consulate General of Germany in Shanghai Seek Cooperation in Yiwu

On March 5th, Madam Anja Geissel, the Education Consul of Consulate General of Germany in Shanghai and Dr. Make, consultant of China-Germany education cooperation visited Yiwu. The two sides reached general agreement on attending Yiwu Stationery & Arts Trade Fair and educational cooperation. Vice Mayor Wang Ying, Li Xuhang, and the official from Municipal Education Bureau took part in discussion or accompanied the visit.

Consul Anja came to Yiwu with her a key education project from Foreign Ministry of Germany. She was highly interested in Yiwu Stationery & Arts Trade Fair. She believed it to be an excellent platform for promoting German culture and education, and promised to organize personnel to attend the fair.

Yiwu enterprises reap reward in Frankfurt exhibition

To cope wi t h the world financial crisis,Yiwu enterprises attend various exhibitions all over the world or visit international purchasers to find opportunities .
During the Spring Festival,16 enterprises attending 2009 Frankfurt International Exhibition brought hope for the coming difficult year. 2009 Frankfurt International Exhibition included several exhibitions concerning papermaking products,office supplies, Christmas items and beauty items . 16 Yiwu enterprises organized by Yiwu International Commerce Chamber attended the exhibition and the turnover reached nearly 10 million dollars. Of all the 16 enterprises, 62.5% has attended the exhibition for three consecutive years,18 .75% for the second time and 18.75% for the first time .
Entering the fine products exhibition hall Frankfurt International Exhibition is an important platform for Yiwu enterprises to develop the European market . Zhang Jinping, general manager of Wenyuan Stationery Co., Ltd -one of the 16 enterprises, said that the financial crisis will change the present situation a lot and may bring opportunities as well and that Yiwu enterprises should try to make use of the opportunity for their further development . Take his enterprise for example, they moved to Asian Fine Products Exhibition Hall this time, competing with international famous stationery brands such as COMIX and DELI . Moving to the Fine Products Exhibition Hall gave Wenyuan a new opportunity to meet the high-end customers they never had the chance to meet before and build a road to develop the high-end Yiwu market .
Establishing stable relations with old customers Yiwu Dandelion Greeting Cards Co . ,Ltd (DGC)also attended the Frankfurt international fair . Liu Huimin,responsible for the company,felt the influence of financial crisis upon the non-daily necessities such as greeting cards and paper bags .
“The shrink of purchasing power leads to the decrease of orders” he said . Recently some businessmen with large order quantity have had great loss due to the euro devaluation . Now almost all the businessmen in all industries reduced the order quantity .
But in Liu‘s mind the initiative is on his hands as long as he comes out instead of waiting at home . “Searching for new customers could make up for the loss of orders from old customers .” It is learned that the Dandelion has explored the European markets all these years and their customers have spread all over Europe . On this trip to Germany the company leaders not only developed some new customers, but also most importantly visited several old customers to whom they paid great attention . It is one way to overcome
hardship and seek new chance for many Yiwu enterprises to attend fairs abroad and visit old customers .
Increasing trade opportunities Statistics from the hosts Frankfurt company initially showed that the customers of this fair were mainly from Europe,and the customers from other areas such as North America,South America,Japan and Russia were less than that of the past, who were a great proportion of the participants in previous years . But the purchasers of this year were still professional and nearly three quarters of the professional participants in the fair were managers or executives, which laid sound and direct cooperative foundation between them.
Survey showed that the Yiwu businessmen not only demonstrated the company image, promoted the new products and learned the design philosophy of over seas famous enterprises,but also knew the development trendecy of industries in the Frankfurt international fair, which could be utilized in production and development to improve the grade of products and make brand construction.

Yiwu International Expo Center to be used during 2009 Yiwu Fair

The newly-built Yiwu International Expo Center is made up of projects such as an exhibition hall and a five-star hotel,covering an area of 219 mu with a total building area of more than 296 thousand square meters and a total investment of 1 . 8 billion yuan . The total building area of the exhibition hall is more than 240 thousand square meters,able to provide 5,256 international standard exhibition booths . The five-star hotel which will be put into use during 2010 Yiwu Fair has 2 floors underground and 26 floors above with 400 guest rooms.

Yiwu International Expo Center Hall civil engineering knot top

January 24 morning, the Yiwu International Expo Center exhibition hall civil knot top, marking the city's new exhibition hall construction leaped to a new level. Party secretary Wu Wei-jung announced that the project node top.
Yiwu city leaders the He Meihua, Tang Wu, Ji Jinfu, attended the ceremony top knot.

Mayor of Yiwu municipal government on the project expressed warm congratulations on the Top node, for all concerned about the participation and support of the builders of the project said. He said, Yiwu International Expo Center Top knot of great significance. International Expo Center building is the International Commodity City Exhibition Cepnter to create a major move. He hoped that relevant departments and units to further enhance the overall situation, continue to fully support this project.Building, construction and supervision units correctly handle the need to further accelerate the progress of the project to ensure project quality and ensure safety of the relationship between the quality of projects to be built into the project, quality and integrity of the engineering works to ensure that the new exhibition hall at the Fair this year, put into use before , in order to build international Commodity Exhibition Center, the building of an international business city and make new and greater contributions.

International Expo Center is a key project in our city, by the exhibition hall and matching five-star hotel two projects, with a total area of 219 mu, total construction area of 29.6 million square meters,invest 1.8 billion, of which the Convention and Exhibition Show Museum project a total construction area of 24 million square meters, will provide 5256 international standard booths.The new International Expo Center in addition to significantly expanding the scale, but also from various aspects of innovation and improved services, facilities, with high technical content, highlight the humanity.

It is learned that the project from start to knot the top in just a short period of 210 days ahead of schedule more than one month to complete, and other auxiliary projects have also admitted the current construction, and fully demonstrates the speed Yiwu.

Five enterprises awarded"Zhejiang Famous Export Brand"

The list of Zhejiang Famous Export Brand was released recently byZhejiang Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation . Five Yiwu enterprises were on the list, including Berkam, MengNa, Langsha, Truelove and Neoglory.
According to the rule of Qualifications and Indicators of "Zhejiang Famous Export Brand", anyapplicant must satisfy 7 qualifications and 6 indicators .
Reportedlythose enterprises honored as Zhejiang Famous Export Brand are entitled to get support from the funds for promoting the development of Zhejiang foreign trade in many projects , including overseas trademark registration ,overseas advertising
, overseas exhibition , brand internationalization or localization, overseas organization, etc.

Yiwu Remains as the Most Preferred Purchasing Destination for Foreign Businessme

Yesterday noon, the residing Palestinian businessmen purchased food supplies in Yiwu International Trade Mart.

Over the past year, although affected by the global financial crisis and a greater difficulty for the foreign businessmen to obtain a visa to China for the sake of Beijing Olympic Games, the number of foreign representative offices in Yiwu continues to grow. According to the latest statistics, in 2008, the registered representative offices of foreign enterprises have been risen from 1300 to over 2000. Yiwu remained as the Most Preferred Purchasing Destination for Foreign Businessmen.