Expo raises its glass to Xinjiang wines

Top products produced in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions will be on display at the 2015 Eurasia Commodity and Trade Expo being held in August, according to Chi Wenjie, deputy director of the Xinjiang international exhibition bureau and secretary general of the organizing committee of the event.

Exhibitions on textiles and apparel, agricultural products and food, jewelry and exquisite jade products, and Xinjiang wines, as well as fine overseas products will be staged at the expo.

Xinjiang has adopted strategies to promote these industries and extend the advantages along the industrial chains.

With its cotton production capacity nearly half of China’s total, thanks to preferential policies of the central government, Xinjiang will promote a series of economic and technological development zones including Aksu, Shihezi and Arael.

“The textile and garment industry exhibition is one of the major parts of the EACT Expo,” Chi said, “Enterprises from Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hebei and Fujian provinces, will take part.”

Grape cultivation is another feature of Xinjiang. Prefectures such as Changji have targeted wine producing as a major direction for adjustment of their agricultural structure, in a bid to make itself the biggest wine processing area in China, even Asia.

To better support the industry, the local industry association has established cooperation with institutions such as the China Agricultural University.

According to Chi, the expo will be a platform for promoting Xinjiang’s wines. Wine tasting activities, forums and new product launches will be featured, with over 60 leading local alcohol enterprises present.

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