The opening ceremony was presided over by Chen Gangmin, deputy secretary of Linhai Municipal Committee.
Relevant leaders and guests witness the event, including over 300 foreign businessmen from more than 50 countries and regions covering Europe, America, Africa and the Middle East. And Zhang Jie, the vice president of China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Light industrial Products and Arts-Crafts, Zhou Guanchao, the vice commissioner of the Department of Commerce in Hangzhou special commissioner’s office, Chen XiaoLi, the director general of Taizhou Bureau of Commerce, Mei Shimiao, the deputy secretary and the mayor of Linhai, Zhu Jianguo, the director of National People’s Congress of Linhai, Zhang Zhaojin, the president of Linhai CPPCC, Dong Jinxi, the standing committee number of Linhai municipal committee and the Propaganda Minister, Chen Fuqing and Chen Xiandong, the vice mayor of Linhai.
Mei Shimiao, the deputy secretary and the mayor of Linhai makes a speech.
Zhou Guanchao, the vice commissioner of the Department of Commerce in Hangzhou special commissioner’s office makes a speech.
Zhang Jie, the vice president of China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Light industrial Products and Arts-Crafts declares the commencement.
Group photo of the foreign buyers.
Leaders and guests visited the exhibition
The theme of this exhibition is "creating a new life of fashion and leisure", and the orientation is "combining exhibition and exhibition, combining both domestic and overseas sales". The exhibition covers around 41,000 square meters. There are 162 enterprises participating in this exhibition. What’s more, the exhibition gains the support of many local key enterprises, such as Zhengte, Yontrio, and Linya. It will make a full display of eight series of products, namely outdoor furniture, awnings, sun umbrella, garden leisure products, garden decorations, garden facilities, household items and wooden houses, which shows the new style of Linhai fashion and leisure life.
Industrial profile:
Twenty years ago, the outdoor leisure industry was emerging in this millennium city. But nowadays, the outdoor leisure industry has been one of the three leading industries in Linhai, and has been an important driver of the economy of Linhai. At present, there are more than 1000 outdoor leisure products and supporting enterprises in Linhai. Above 160 of them are scale enterprises, whose annual total output value reached more than 20 billion yuan, and exports exceeded 8.6 billion yuan, accounting for 36 percent of the country's exports of similar products. Linhai has become the only "professional demonstration base of national foreign trade transformation and upgrading" named by the Ministry of Commerce, and also the exporting base for the outdoor furniture & garden leisure products, the manufacturing base for the gifts & leisure supplies, and Zhejiang linhai integrated photoelectric technology to promote trade innovation base.
The Linhai outdoor exhibition has been held successfully for 6 sessions. For the past six years, the exhibition has been gradually improved on its scale and level. The influence of the exhibition has been expanding year by year and the advantages of "base + exhibition" are fully reflected. After the past 6 sessions’ successfully holding, the popularity and influence of regional brands in the outdoor leisure products industry of Linhai in the European and American markets and the domestic market have been improved continuously, and the international market competitiveness has been improved continuously. It creates an international trading platform for leisure products.
At the scene of this exhibition, there are 4 pavilions (Region A1-A4) in Region A, which totally gathers 114 leisure products enterprises for brand special display. Many outdoor products including multifunctional sunshade umbrella, "lovely" chair, "primitive" gardening products and so on, appear amazingly, which makes people dazzled.
Frequently visible "foreign faces" have been a highlight of the show. The exhibition attracted more than 300 overseas buyers from over 50 countries and regions including the United States, Germany and Australia. Compared with the previous years, the number of foreign buyers is increasing this year. Many foreign buyers are obviously already the old customers of the exhibition. They can communicate with exhibitors on the spot with a slightly blunt Chinese.
Foreign buyers communicate with the exhibitors.
And let’s take a look at Region B. It is lighting/commodity direct selling area. A total of 52 standard booths were set up here, which totally gathers all kinds of daily necessities such as plastic daily necessities, cleaning supplies, entertainment supplies, LED lights, decorations and so on provided by 44 enterprises. The high quality and reasonable price of the product, attract many audience "crazy rob", and the scene is very lively.
Citizens in direct selling area are purchasing
Region C is the special decoration area of wooden house enterprise brand. There are 4 wooden house enterprises which are Ouya, Shengfeiya, Lvhe and Jiyu. "Chic" wooden house, with garden leisure tables and chairs, sunshade umbrella and so on, attract many businessmen and visitors on the scene to visit and experience.
Wooden houses area
Region D is display area of cultural and creative design competition, as a supporting activity of this exhibition. The exhibition collected the works in advance, which were made by the students from 12 famous colleges and universities in China, like Tsinghua University, Guangzhou university, Ningbo University, Northeast Forestry University, Shandong Art College, Taizhou University and so on. What’s more, a number of front-line designers from the leading enterprises of local outdoor household goods, like Yotrio, Zhengte, Linya and so on, has taken an active part in this competition.There are 110 pieces of outdoor leisure furniture, garden leisure goods, garden lighting goods, gardening goods and other series received in this competition. After the first round of the panel, 67 works were selected and will be exhibited on Oct. 28. They are the "court umbrella" of Qin and Han style, the lovely "leisure bubble chair", the gentle "half moon", the fashionable "Milo chair" and the delicate "hanging basket and flower shelf". According to the staff on site, some businessmen are very interested in designing products.
In order to select the works of gold, silver and bronze, as well as the best innovation, the best technology and the most potential awards, the organizing committee evaluates the 67 works that have been shortlisted by combining the WeChat vote, the vote of the enterprises participating in the field and the vote of experts. As long as the live audience pays attention to the WeChat public account (lhfair) of the exhibition, and clicks the menu "WeChat vote" to vote for their favorite works, they can also timely participate in the on-site lottery activities.
While coming here, you think you’re done ?
But maybe you are wrong. Don’t worry. Look at a group of businessmen standing in line to get on the sightseeing bus over there. Are they going to visit the beauty of Linghu ?
Oh, they are not. They are going to the Region E. The organizing committee also organizes the businessmen to the Region E: the “life experience theme pavilion”. We are also going to take a visit.
On the sightseeing bus, we can see the beautiful scenery of Linghu along the way, which is very intoxicating.
For around 5-6 minutes, all of us are still reveling in the boundless landscape of Linghu lake. The sightseeing bus has already taken us to the exhibition area of "life experience theme pavilion" on Binhu road, Linghu scenic spot.
When we get off the bus, we can see a comfortable and leisure sight, and experience a quiet and free life on the water side. Alongside the beautiful Linghu, fence, lawn, wooden house, winding path, garden, pond fish, deck chair, swing, sunshade umbrella, barbecue stove, pavilion, scaffolding, flowers and so on are perfectly matched and integrated with the beautiful scenery of Linghu, which creates a chic garden type courtyard living area and completely breaks the boundary between indoor and outdoor. In the turbulent times at present, it leads people to "return" to nature, presents a new living concept and new life appearance, and makes people feel the outdoor life experience of harmonious coexistence between human and nature and comfortable and leisure.
Oct. 28 to 31
Linhai Gymnasium (Linghu Square)
The 7th China (Linhai) Outdoor Furniture & Garden Leisure Products Exhibition
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