Brief Introduction of the 14th China Harbin Fair Online

Due to the SARS impact, the 14th China Harbin Fair was held on the internet, through which businessmen home and abroad made transactions.

At 9:30 of June 15, 2003, Mr. Song Fatang, the Secretary General of CPC Heilongjiang Committee, announced the opening of the 14th Harbin Fair Online at the ceremony spot; Vice Governor Wang Limin hosted the opening ceremony and the demonstrations. The high officials of Heilongjiang, such as Mr. Zhang Zuoji, the Governor of Province, and Mr. Shi Zhongxin, the Mayor of Harbin, also extended their congratulations and delivered speeches for the opening ceremony.

Harbin Fair Online is a large commercial website in multiple languages including Chinese, English, Russian, Japanese as well as Korean, taking use of AV network technology to provide multi-modes of online services, such as online exhibitions, promotion, and negotiation and so on.

The 14th Harbin Fair Online had collected rich source of information about exhibitors, exhibits and cooperative projects by email, fax, EMS and other channels. In addition, over 100 thousand pieces of information had been published free of charge on the website. 156 key cooperative projects, 108 projects of property right transfer, as well as 80 foreign high-tech projects were negotiated. The foreign value of US$ 132 million and the domestic value of RMB 565.1 million were concluded. The 14th Harbin Fair Online successfully undertook the online negotiations of hundreds to thousands of clients simultaneously with the internet hits of 1.22 million.