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2010 Chengdu Houseware, Leisure Goods and Gifts Fair opens

By Huang Zhiling and Li Ling (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-06-19 20:03

     

A plate with China's auspicious designs of a gilded dragon and phoenix is a gift on display in the 2010 Chengdu Houseware, Leisure Goods and Gifts Fair in Sichuan Province. 

CHENGDU: The three-day 2010 Chengdu Houseware, Leisure Goods and Gifts Fair kicked off on Friday at the Chengdu New International Convention and Exposition Center in this capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Covering an area of 16,000 square meters, the fair's two exhibition halls in the southern suburbs of Chengdu have drawn more than 500 gift-manufacturing firms from home and abroad, according to Reed Huabo Exhibitions Co Ltd, the organizer of the Chengdu fair.

Reed Huabo, the largest gift event organizer in China, is a joint venture between Reed Exhibitions, which is the world's leading events business, and Shenzhen Huabo Exhibition Co Ltd.

On display in the fair are craftworks, leather goods, toys, electronic products, textiles, hardware, watches, clocks, travel and sports products and kitchenware.

Of the craftworks, the most conspicuous are works of the Shu Brocade and Shu Embroidery. Shu was the ancient name of Sichuan.

The Shu Brocade, now one of China's four schools of brocade, and the Shu Embroidery, one of the country's four schools of embroidery, have been known far and near since the Three Kingdoms period (220-280AD).

In the period, the Shu Kingdom often exchanged products of the Shu Brocade and Shu Embroidery for war hoses from northern China and they were important sources of revenue for the weak kingdom.