China’s retail sales rose 22 percent, close to the fastest pace in nine years, signaling that domestic demand may help the fourth-biggest economy withstand a looming global recession.
Sales climbed to 1.008 trillion yuan ($148 billion) in October, the statistics bureau said today, after gaining 23.2 percent in September from a year earlier. The increase matched [...]
Start Date
17-FEB-09
End Date
20-FEB-09
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Shanghai New International Expo Centre
Shanghai/Shanghai
China
Event Profile:
A must see event for all furniture and furnishings retailers, interior designers, interior decorators, architects and product specifiers, Furnitek China features more than 500 Chinese manufacturers, wholesalers and designers over a huge 35,000 square metres.
Tags: Exhibitions, furniture, Shanghai
Start Date
12-DEC-08
End Date
14-DEC-08
Venue
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Qingdao International Convention Center
Qingdao/Shandong
China
Event Profile:
China Qingdao International Doors Windows Curtain Walls and Related Equipment Exhibition which is held once a year will be held during Dec. 12-14, 2008 at Qingdao International Convention Center. Within four years of its launch, the exhibition has become the second international professional exhibition in construction material [...]
Start Date
25-NOV-08
End Date
28-NOV-08
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China International Exhibition Center
Beijing/Beijing
China
Event Profile:
China Furniture Woodworking Machinery & Wood Products Exhibition (Furniture Beijing 2008) is the premier meeting point for the designers, manufactures, wholesalers, and retailers in the furniture industry. Every year, the leading companies bring the state-of-the-arts products for the quality buyers from all over China under its roof. [...]
More than a third of all furniture products and 14 percent of all leather goods manufactured in Guangzhou contain unsafe levels of formaldehyde, a chemical that can cause leukemia, a study by the city’s quality and technology supervision bureau has found.
Forty-five of 132 batches of furniture and 11 of 80 batches of leather goods were [...]
Start Date
26-NOV-08
End Date
28-NOV-08
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Macau Tower Convention & Entertainment Centre
Macau/Macau
China (Macau S.A.R.)
Event Profile:
Hotel Furniture & Lighting Fair is one of the leading spring events for order placement and information exchange in the food and beverage, hotel, restaurant and catering sectors.
Tags: Exhibitions, Fair, furniture, Hotel, Lighting, Macau
