Organic foods, travel to highlight trade fair in Zhangye

By Wu Jin
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Zhangye, located in the ancient Hexi Corridor, a plain shaped by earth movements on the Tibetan and Inner Mongolian Plateaus, is working to revive its past glory by holding trade fairs focusing on green agriculture and tourist programs.

The "Silk Road International Ecological Industry Expo for Green Organic Products (Zhangye) Trade Fair" will last for four days from September 1.

Speaking at a press conference in Beijing on May 23, Zhengye Vice Mayor Chen Hua said: "Learning from past fairs, we are experienced, resourceful and fundamentally capable of hosting one of the most outstanding international trade fairs of its kind, creating a platform for the development of the economic highlands in the Western region."

With its advantageous natural conditions, Zhangye contains agrarian land covering roughly 7,508 hectares, where the soil is both fertile and less-polluted than other parts of the country. As a result of huge differences in temperature, the grain crops, corn, potatoes and herbs growing there face little threat from pests, so that use of pesticides can be reduced to the minimum.

More than 110 agricultural production and processing bases in the city have been granted access to foreign markets, including warrants from Russia and some Central Asian countries for self-conducted trade. The cooperation with countries lying west to the city is starting to pick up.

Besides, never has the city lacked attraction for its natural resorts and historic sites, such as, the world-renowned Danxia landform, one of the world's 22 most impressive sights listed by the American Huffington Post, the old sites of the Great Wall both built in Han (202 BCE-220 CE) and Ming (1368-1644) dynasties and the biggest clay-made sleeping Buddha in Asia housed in the only remaining temple built in the Western Xia Empire (1038-1227) across the country.

"Those are all the lively, dynamic and profound historic legacies, not only witnessing the vicissitudes of history for the splendid growing of civilization but also underscore Zhangye's strategic role in the newly-proposed Silk Road Economic Belt," Chen said.

The trade fair undertaken by Beijing Exhibition Co. Ltd. will have space for 700 stands this year.

The previous three trade fairs attracted 1,200 companies from Iran, Nepal, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia in particular, with agreements signed worth 2.08 billion yuan (US$290 million).

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