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Australian Consulate-General, Guangzhou
Media Release PD24/07 Date:7/11/2007
China’s Agricultural Olympics – Australia going for gold!
Over 50 Australian exhibitors will participate in the 14th China Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Fair (CAF) from 5th to 9th November 2007 held near Xi’an in central China.
Known as the ‘China Agricultural Olympic Fair’, CAF is the largest event of its kind in China. The 2007 Sino-Australia Agriculture Cooperation Week is the highlight of this year’s CAF - comprising a series of high profile events jointly run by the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade), China’s State Foreign Experts Administration and the Shanxi Provincial Government.
More than 1 million people from all over China will visit the fair, including major buyers, agents, distributors, consumers, and agricultural researchers and technicians. Australia will showcase a wide range of the latest agricultural equipment, technology, products and services.
Austrade’s Regional Director for North East Asia, Laurie Smith said that China’s ongoing strong economic growth offered a unique opportunity to Australian suppliers and exporters.
“The Chinese economy continues to grow unabated, pulling in imports to fuel the country’s increasingly large economic engine. For Australia’s export community, the China market has grown increasingly important over the last 12 months, with growth of over 20% in our export trade” Mr Smith said.
Over the past 12 months, Austrade has assisted over 3,000 Australian companies in China, with over 900 making export sales and generating strong business in the market. As demand in China grows for Australian products and services, Austrade is extending its reach in China and now has 15 offices in China, including Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi province where the CAF is being held.
Austrade’s Beijing-based Trade Commissioner Paul Sanda noted that Australia was recognised in China as having one of the world’s most sophisticated agribusiness industries and there was strong interest in Australian products, technology, services and innovation.
“In 2006 the Australian agriculture industry exported A$ 3125 million worth of agriculture, fishery and forestry products to China. Australia’s top four agricultural exports to China are wool, grains, fibre products (wool) and meat. China is now a major importer of Australian wine with A$57 million exported in 2006.
“Among the products and services in demand in China are Australian livestock; dairy and meat production systems, processing technology and equipment; water saving and irrigation technologies; planting and horticultural technologies; rural and renewable energy technologies; agribusiness consulting and services” he said.
“It’s imperative that both Australian and Chinese agribusinesses take the advantage to visit China’s largest agricultural fair to build on relationships and identify new business and partnership opportunities,” Mr Sanda said.
Major activities taking place during the Sino-Australia Agriculture Cooperation Week include a Senior Officials Forum, Sino-Australian Agriculture Technology and Products Exhibition, Sino-Australian Agricultural Cooperation Seminar, business matching between Chinese and Australian companies and the Yulin-Australian Agricultural Cooperation Seminar.
There will be a vast array of Australian agribusinesses at the Expo. They range from live stock breeders to grain storage systems, irrigation technologies to agribusiness consulting services.
For further information, please contact Ms Willow Li, Research Assistant (Tel: 020 3814 0186, E-mail: willow.li@dfat.gov.au)