Asia’s international jewelry fair opens in HK
\nPeople’s Daily Online, China<\/p>\n
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The largest-ever edition of Asia’s international jewelry event, the 24th edition of the September Hong Kong Jewelry & Watch Fair, opened here Monday.<\/p>\n
The September Hong Kong Jewelry & Watch Fair is Asia’s largest and one of the top three jewelry events in the world.<\/p>\n
The 2006 edition is the largest in the Fair’s history, covering altogether 80,000 square meters of exhibition space and housing 5, 000 exhibition booths in both Hong Kong-AsiaWorld-Expo and Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The expo runs till Saturday.<\/p>\n
According to the organizer of the event, an unprecedented number of buyers are expected to attend the Fair. Apart from regular visitors, over 11,000 buyers from around the world had preregistered as of 5 September 2006. A record-breaking number of over 2,500 exhibitors from 47 countries took part in the event.<\/p>\n
The fair will feature a wide range of products, from fine finished jewelry, polished diamonds, gemstones, pearls, jewelry timepieces and packaging to jewelry-making tools and machinery.<\/p>\n
Celine Lau, director of Jewellery Fairs for CMP Asia, which is the organizer of the expo, said that this year’s expo will mark a new milestone in the trade event industry.<\/p>\n
Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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