Recently, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region held the ceremony of “Ningxia Arabic Talent Fraternity and Wuzhong Action on Arabic Translation Brand Enhancement”, established a service center for Arabic talents from Ningxia, and launched the action on the enhancement of Wuzhong’s Arabic translation brand in full swing. Liu Hui, member and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region headed heads of the relevant departments to the ceremony. Shi Limin, deputy secretary-general of Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government; Yue Yimin, director of the provincial department of human resources and social security and He Meihua, mayor of Yiwu were present.

 The formulation of the rules and regulations on the theme activity of “innovation and excellence, quality and efficiency increases” was launched from late March. With emphasis on improving the responsibility system, strengthening responsibility supervision, tightening accountability and intensifying performance assessment, the systems of responsibility, commitment, publicity, cancellation, judgment, supervision and accountability were further enhanced and fulfilled, and the rules and regulations on the building of efficiency and executive ability of the government were established and improved....

 “The first involvement of the Ministry of Culture means that Yiwu Fair has been officially promoted to a national exhibition.” At the press conference for the preparations for Yiwu Fair 2010 today, Chen Xiuxian, deputy secretary of CPC Yiwu Municipal Committee, told the press. According to the source, the fair is schedule to be held at Yiwu International Exposition Center from April 20 to 23, then 2,000 booths will demonstrate Chinese and foreign cultural achievements in an all-round manner and are expected to attract over 80,000 professional purchasers, including over 6,000 from abroad....

 “Yiwu’s GDP grows at an average rate of 24%, 15% higher than the average level of the country. Yiwu is a most profitable place in China, a place earning the money of the world as well as a place where the world earns money.” This was the comment of the writer He Jianming on Yiwu after it had been ranked among China’s nine fastest-growing star cities.

  According to the municipal science & technology bureau, the State Intellectual Property Office has issued an official document approving Yiwu as a national model city in intellectual property, making it the only county-level city in the province.

 In order to give more convenience for the purchasers and suppliers in Yiwu wholesale market in enquiry and complaints, currently, China Commodities City Group opened a hotline, 96032 accepting enquiries and complaints about the market service. Purchasers and suppliers can get immediate and complete help by calling this hotline.

Recently, according to the briefing on the activities for China Yiwu Cultural Products Trade Fair 2010, theme pavilions will be new attractions at the fair and are in preparation.

It was sunny after a recent snow in Beijing. At 10:30 a.m., the press conference for “China Yiwu Cultural Products Trade Fair 2010” which was promoted to a national exhibition was held at the Ministry of Culture. Over 50 domestic and overseas mainstream media institutions such as the Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, CCTV, China National Radio, Phoenix TV, Channel NewsAsia and KBS covered the press conference.

The newly-built Yiwu International Exhibition Center is made up of projects such as an exhibition hall and a five-star hotel,covering an area of 219 mu with a total building area of more than 296 thousand square meters and a total investment of 1 . 8 billion yuan . The total building area of the exhibition hall is more than 240 thousand square meters,able to provide 5,000 international standard exhibition booths . The five-star hotel which will be put into use during 2010 Yiwu Fair has 2 floors underground and 26 floors above with 400 guest rooms.

義烏市2010年度展覽項目計劃