About 200 firms join local fair in Guangzhou

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A three-day event set to promote ‘made in Macau’ food, design and goods in Guangzhou has attracted about 200 exhibitors, the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) announced yesterday.
The 2012 Macau-Guangzhou Branded Products Fair will be held at the Jinhan Guangzhou Exhibition Center from Friday to Sunday and will take up an area of 8,500 square metres.
The event will include food products, souvenirs, cultural and design creation and also products from Portuguese-speaking countries, IPIM said in a statement. For instance, the ‘MinM’ zone will be open to about a hundred small and medium enterprises from the MSAR, selling everything from Portuguese olive oil to traditional Macau almond cookies, hand-made fans and furniture.
The free-admission fair will sell both Macau and Guangzhou products to Guangdong province residents and tourists. During the three days there will also be activities to promote bilateral trade and contacts between companies from both territories.
The visitors will also be able to watch cultural shows and try Macau cuisine, including codfish, egg tarts and pork chop buns, known as ‘chu pa pao’.
IPIM launched a preferential policy to encourage Macau companies to join the Guangzhou fair to display locally made products, locally designed or sold by local companies.
The fair “is the first major economic and commercial event focused on strengthening the interaction between the business sectors of both territory” and with the Portuguese-speaking countries, IPIM wrote.