China Textiles and Garment Trade Show Opens in United StatesA China Textiles and Garment Trade Show opened Monday in what is the first Chinese professional textiles and garment fair in the United States.The event, "Year 2000 China Textiles and Garment Trade Show," attracted some 206 enterprises from 25 Chinese provinces and cities in an exhibition area of 5,000 square meters. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Wang Tiankai, deputy director of the China Textile and Industrial Bureau, said, "China and the United States are key trading partners. The two countries are highly complementary to each other in the economic field." "This expo is mainly designed for the better understanding on the American market for Chinese textiles and garment enterprises in a more direct way so as to provide better services in trade exchanges," he said. "Meanwhile, through widespread contact with American enterprises, they can seek opportunities for cooperation on capital, technology and other means from American enterprises, so that the trade and commerce of two countries would be expanded and the economic growth of the two countries be benefited," he said. "With fast development of worldwide science and technology, and the further progress of the economic globalization, the Sino- American connections in economy, technology and trade should not only be further strengthened, but also be promoted to maturity," he said. Li Zhaoxing, Chinese ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Shen Guofang, deputy Chinese representative to the United Nations, and Ambassador Zhang Hongxi, Chinese consul general in New York, were present at the opening ceremony. Organized by the China's Sub-Council of Textile Industry and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the show will end Wednesday. It was supported by the U.S. Specialty Trade Shows and the Fully Youthful Enterprise. Textile industry is a major pillar of China's national economy, and China's textile industry has kept vigorous vitality thanks to the nation's reform and opening to the outside world campaign. |
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