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Nearly 100 foreign firms from 30 countries, including the United States, Britain and Russia, are attending the 2002 International Agriculture and Food Fair which opened Thursday in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.
Co-hosted by the Agriculture Ministry and local governments, the fair aims to enliven the domestic markets with the theme "Exchange, cooperation and progress."
According to the organization committee, the fair has 6,000 exposition booths, three times of the number of the previous two fairs.
More than 540 domestic enterprises from 24 provinces and municipalities are also attending.
Chinese participants will try to attract investment in projects involving biological pharmacy, ecological agriculture and other fields. About 60 agreements are expected to be signed, with a total sum of 6 billion yuan (US$722.89 million).
Yang Qingcai, Jilin's vice-governor in charge of agriculture, said that the fair, with its full exhibition of China's achievements in agricultural development, would open China's agriculture to the world.
The fair will run until August 21. About 100,000 people visited the first day and the number is expected to reach 1 million by the end.
(Xinhua News Agency August 16, 2002)
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