Qingtian county hosts the 4th Overseas Chinese Imported Commodities Expo. [Photo/WeChat account: wxlishui]

The 4th Overseas Chinese Imported Commodities Expo was held in Qingtian county – administered by Lishui city in East China's Zhejiang province – on Nov 13-15, in an event which ran in tandem with the Qingtian Imported Wine Trade Fair and the 2nd International Coffee Expo.

The hometown of about 415,000 overseas Chinese, Lishui – and especially Qingtian – is widely known as a world supermarket that connects domestic and international markets.

Participants in the expo included more than 1,000 import companies from more than 70 countries and regions – in Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania – as well as 5,500 commercial buyers from across the country.

The expo, with eight exhibition areas, covered a total area of 90,000 square meters and had 1,800 individual stands.

The event attracted 600 wine import enterprises, nearly 100 coffee importers and 600 other import companies engaged in other commodities from home and abroad – bringing together more than 70,000 kinds of commodities. 

At the opening ceremony, Ivana Vala Magatova, Consul General of the Slovak Republic in Shanghai, gave a keynote speech, in which she said the expo was a great opportunity to connect wine producers from all over the world.