The 12th Agricultural Trade Fair will be held in Qingdao, Shandong Province.

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that the 12th China International Agricultural products Fair and the third Shandong Agricultural Trade Fair will be held at Qingdao International Convention and Exhibition Center in Shandong Province from October 25 to 28. The Agricultural Fair has a total exhibition area of more than 60, 000 square meters, including indoor exhibition area of 56000 square meters, outdoor agricultural machinery exhibition area of about 4000 square meters, a total of more than 2000 domestic and foreign enterprises participated in the exhibition.

The current Agricultural Fair continues to adhere to the purpose of "displaying achievements, promoting exchanges and promoting trade" and the principle of "quality, open and pragmatic", with the theme of "deepening rural reform and developing modern agriculture". We will promote the construction of "specialization, marketization and branding" of the Agricultural Fair.

The exhibitors are mainly national and provincial key leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, and their exhibitors have obtained certification of pollution-free agricultural products, green food and organic agricultural products. in addition, there are large and medium-sized agricultural products exports, foreign-funded joint ventures and well-known enterprises at home and abroad, and small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises with good development prospects.

According to Zhang Zhe, director of the Department of Market and Economic Information of the Ministry of Agriculture and secretary-general of the organizing committee of the 12th Agricultural Fair: compared with previous agricultural trade fairs, this agricultural fair has four outstanding features:

First, we should give more prominence to modernization. The current Agricultural Trade Fair will set up an agricultural informatization exhibition area and will hold a summit forum on agricultural informatization, which will focus on demonstrating the achievements of agricultural informatization construction, promoting the comprehensive integration of informatization and agricultural modernization, and enhancing the ability and level of agricultural informatization development. The second is to give prominence to marketization. This is the first time that the Agricultural Fair has tried to organize market-oriented exhibitions. The exhibition areas of aquatic products, tea and agricultural machinery are all organized through market-oriented exhibitions. It also enriches the on-site sales to the exhibition area for the first time, combining the sales of agricultural products with on-site display and negotiation. Third, give more prominence to specialization. A total of 40 exhibitors participated in this year's Agricultural Trade Fair, including 33 provincial pavilions (including Taiwan and Xinjiang Corps) and 7 professional pavilions, including international pavilions, agricultural informatization, veterinary supplies and veterinary drugs, tea, agricultural cultural heritage, aquatic products and agricultural machinery. Fourth, it is more prominent to brand. The organizing committee further strengthened the selection of exhibitors, revised and improved the methods for the selection of exhibitors, conscientiously organized the selection of gold awards for exhibitors, and intensified the publicity and promotion of gold award products. promote the improvement of the quality of agricultural products and the production and circulation of high-quality agricultural products.

The Agricultural Fair is sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and the people's Government of Shandong Province, with the assistance of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of quality Supervision and Quarantine, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the all-China Federation of supply and Marketing Cooperation and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. Qingdao Municipal people's Government, Shandong Agricultural Department, National Agricultural Exhibition Hall, China Agricultural Exhibition Association and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade are hosted by the Agricultural Industry Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.