On the morning of November 5, the 15th Yiwu International Forest Products Expo opened at the Yiwu International Expo Center. This Expo lasted for four days and brought together more than 100,000 kinds of forest products from 1,331 exhibitors. Through online and offline linkage, a new model for green, low carbon prosperity in the forestry industry will be built.

There were 2,075 international standard booths featured in the Expo, which were divided into ten special exhibition areas. The areas included the Common Prosperity Exhibition, the Mountain-Sea Cooperation Exhibition, and the Fine Forest and Grass Equipment Exhibition. Ten industries were covered including wood and bamboo crafts, forest food, outdoor forest equipment and accessories. New elements were added to the digital exhibition and industrial extension.

To promote common prosperity, the exhibition also gave support to the twinning areas in Zhejiang Province to help the forest products of 26 counties in mountainous areas get out of the mountains. The exhibition keeps up with the modern trend as a new exhibition of outdoor forest equipment and accessories and a special exhibition of forest health care products have been set up to extend the industrial chain of forestry. This fosters the integration of forestry+cultural tourism and forestry+health care.

In an effective response to the epidemic, this exhibition continued the “offline+online” cloud exhibition mode. It built a high-quality exhibition and trading center on the digital platform of Chinagoods.com, and it launched the Happy Shopping Festival of the Forest Expo. At present, more than 800 enterprises have settled in the platform. (By Gong Xiyan—Jinhua Daily, translated by Huang Dan, edited by Daniel Haws)