Zhejiang Investment & Trade Symposium and China International Consumer Goods Fair (Symposium and Fair for short) are held in Ningbo from June 8th to June 12th each year. They are comprehensive events in Zhejiang featuring foreign economic and trade exchanges. During the eight Symposiums since 1999, over 2567 projects were accumulatively signed, involving total contractual investment of over US $21.4 billion. Starting from 2002, the Fair was launched annually together with the Symposium, resulting in accumulative export turnover of US $3.637 billion. The Symposiums and Fairs over the years have also introduced a great many human resources and scientific& technological results from home and abroad. These years every Symposium and the Fair have been attracting over 10 thousand foreign guests annually.
      The 9th Zhejiang Investment & Trade symposium and the 6th China International Consumer Goods Fair will be held in Ningbo from June 8th to June 12th ,2007. This Symposium and Fair will provide four major activities: reciprocal investment meetings, import and export commodities exhibition (6th China International Consumer Goods fair), opening-up forum of Zhejiang, and exchange & cooperation of human resources, science and technology. The reciprocal investment meetings will include such events as industry business sessions, promotional conference on national (regional) investment environment and project signing ceremonies. At the 6th China International Consumer Goods Fair, about 10,000 kinds of high quality products with famous brands from over 1,000 companies from home and abroad will be exhibited. Focusing on the characteristics and advantages of Zhejiang as well as the features of the attendees, the opening-up forum of Zhejiang will arrange several effective and interactively adequate discussions on special subjects. The exchange and cooperation of human resources, science and technology will carry on exchanges and discussions on the introduction of overseas human resources and scientific & technological results with domestic and overseas research institutes and institutions of higher learning.