A fair changes a city
18 years, as one of "China's top ten exhibition city, Yiwu exhibition industry has been impressive, organizing various MICE activities last year alone 158 contribution to the 34.713 billion yuan turnover. Yiwu to create the idea of ??a national exhibition platform, in the context of the planning and construction of the "million-cities" are progressing towards reality from the architecture.
May 18, 1995, the first Fair Huangyuan market in Yiwu hallway opened a prelude to the time the show name "China Commodity City famous Expo, booth number 348. Initiated by the first Fair market The operation organized exposition of its kind, also marks the Yiwu Market began to improve the quality of goods and market grade direction forward.
1997, upgraded to a third Fair sponsored by the Provincial People's Government moved to Binwang market held exhibition scale and new exhibitors have a substantial increase. 2001 7th Fair held Meihu Exhibition Center in the new ancillary activities Investment Symposium, E-Commerce Forum, Yiwu - Hong Kong Economic and Trade Fair expand the connotation exhibition.
In 2002, the Fair officially upgraded to a national and international exhibition, booth number exceeded 2000 for the first time. In 2003, because of the rapid increase of exhibitors, the Fair ride the original pavilion tent exhibition, indoor and outdoor set up 1,500 booths. This has been in the industry at the time called "the greatest outdoor show. 2009, organized by the 15th session of the Fair moved to Yiwu International Expo Center, booth 5000, attracted more than 2625 exhibitors.
In 2011, the 17th session of the Fair with a comprehensive exhibition + Professional Exhibition exhibition mode, the first attempt to work with two strong professional exhibition company, Held in conjunction with the exhibition in the exhibition " Machinery Industry Fair Exhibition and Fair car and motorcycle supplies and accessories exhibition, to achieve a substantial expansion of the scale of the exhibition.
In April last year, in order to build the various exhibitions, Yiwu City Exhibition Co., Ltd. was split into two companies, the eighteenth Fair Exhibition Ltd Yiwu International Commodities Fair by his matters, the future is the same. Up to now, the Fair has become the industry's largest, most influential, the most successful Consumer Goods Fair.
After the Fair, Yiwu recent years have organized a series of increasingly high profile exhibition of the Fair, hardware, travel expo, Consumer Fair, to enhance the the Yiwu City image, expand market awareness and contribution to turnover , it is also virtually led to the smooth running of the entire exhibition industry chain.
Exhibition City: Exhibition architecture is quietly taking shape
Last year by the European debt crisis, the U.S. economy pick up weak, Yiwu foreign trade business suppliers phased decline, exhibitors, businessmen to participate enthusiasm has also been reduced. Yiwu exhibition industry adjustment strategy is committed to build small and medium enterprises to develop domestic and international markets, and the transformation of foreign trade growth of trade platform, but has scaled new heights in the contrarian.
The data show that last year, Yiwu has organized a total of 158 various types of exhibition activities, booth number 30222, turnover of 34.713 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 6.08%. , 15 large scale of more than 10,000 square meters exhibition project, a year-on-year growth of 15.38%. At the same time, Yiwu has been named the 2011-2012 China's top ten exhibition city, the year 2012 China's top ten influential exhibition cities; Yiwu Fair has won the 2011-2012 exhibition of China's top ten brands, the year 2012, China's top ten government-led exhibition; Forest Fair won the exhibition project of the year 2012 China's top ten brands, the exhibition of the year 2012 China Top Ten Influential; Yiwu Exhibition Office also won the 2012 Convention and Exhibition Management Award for the year.