On the evening of May 25, the 2022 Jinhua Brand Commodities Online Fair (Iraq Station) kicked off in Jinhua. The fair was jointly sponsored by the Erbil Branch of the Iraqi Federation of Importers and Exporters, the Jinhua Municipal Bureau of Commerce, and the Jinhua Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. Zhang Shankun, vice president of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Zhejiang Chamber of International Commerce, and Ruan Ganghui, deputy mayor of Jinhua, participated in the opening ceremony in Jinhua.

At the fair in Iraq, Ni Ruchi, the Consul General of China in Erbil, leaders from the government, the Department of Industry and Trade, and the Department of Foreign Relations of the Kurdish Autonomous Region, and other guests from 11 countries cut the ribbon for the event.

Jinhua and Iraq have a long history of cooperation in many fields. Thousands of Iraqi businessmen are engaged in wholesale business in Jinhua all year round. In 2021, Jinhua's exports to Iraq reached 10.13 bn RMB, and 3.01 bn RMB from January to April this year, a year-on-year increase of 34.9%. The purchase intention agreements were valued at more  than 11m USD at the last session of the Jinhua Brand Commodities Online Fair (Iraq Station) in 2021, which further deepened the economic and trade exchanges between Jinhua and Iraq.

This year's fair adopted an innovative form, combining "offline physical exhibition" with "online real-time negotiations." The products of 43 Jinhua companies in the fields of hardware, building materials, daily consumer goods, and other industries had been transported to Iraq for centralized display, and business negotiations with purchasers in the Middle East were carried out online.