The Third Shanghai Mode Lingerie is to be launched in October 26-27 in Shanghai Exhibition Center, expected to bring together even more exhibitors and visitors than the previous year, announced the organizer Eurovet, a French exhibition company, yesterday in Hong Kong.

Accounting for more than 60 percent of the world's population, Asia is one of the largest market in the world, and the Shanghai Mode Lingerie is held at the heart of this vibrant and challenging market, said Eurovet.

The Second Shanghai Mode Lingerie gathered more than 4,000 visitors from 56 countries and regions in October 2006.

This year, Eurovet also organized the First Hong Kong Mode Lingerie in Hong Kong in April. The two-day exhibition accumulated almost 3,500 visitors from 42 countries and regions in both Asia and the rest of the world.