The 2015 China-France Wine Equipment and Technology Exposition kicked off at the Yinchuan International Conference and Exhibition Center in Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on June 9.

With a total exhibition area of 8,000 square meters, the event attracted 157 wine and wine equipment and machinery producers from France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Chinese provinces like Shandong and Henan. The exhibition items covered wine grape garden management machinery, wine production equipment, oak barrel clean equipment, wine storage equipment and so on.

A series of professional forums themed “Mechanization Development of Wine Grape Industry at Eastern Foot of Helan Mountain,” “Foreign Machinery Exhibitors’ Demonstration,” and “Eastern Foot of Helan Mountain Machinery Demonstration” will also be held during the event.

The platform is expected to facilitate all-round cooperation between Ningxia enterprises and experts and manufacturers from both home and abroad, introducing advanced concepts, technologies and equipments of wine industry into Ningxia, said Hao Linhai, the director of Eastern Foot of Helan Mountain Wine Industrial Park at the opening ceremony.