BIZCHINA / Biz Media Digest

Light Industry: Shoes on show
(China daily)
Updated: 2006-04-12 14:55

The eighth Jinjiang Footwear International Exposition is to take place between April 19-22 at the SM International Exhibition Centre in East China's Fujian Province.

The 1,600-booth expo has attracted 500 firms. Some 23 per cent of booths available have been reserved by foreign exhibitors.
 
The host city is a major shoe-manufacturing base and home to more than 3,000 enterprises, which turn out about 900 million pairs of shoes a year with a value of about 20 billion yuan (US$2.4 billion).


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