Wall calendars, desk calendars, couplets, pictures, and other festival crafts have always been China's traditional festival gifts and home decorational products. After nearly 20 years of development, China's festival gifts industry has now become the world's largest and most important producer and exporter, with an annual output up to 100 million Yuan. Along with China's continuously increased economic status in the world over the past 10 years, there has been a global epidemic of "China Wind". Festival crafts like desk calendars and wall calendars with Chinese characteristics have also been popular in other foreign countries, particularly in Europe and America, with an endless stream of orders from those countries. At the same time, the holding of Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010, Shanghai Expo in 2010, and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will bring immense business opportunities for the market of calendar and festival crafts.
    Guangzhou International Calendar, Festival Gift, and Notebook Exhibition is a professional exhibition with considerable influence in the domestic market, it has successfully been held for more than 10 years. With its own unique theme of exhibition and professional services, the exhibition cut a figure in its performance among many gifts exhibitions in the country, and received industry-wide concern and attention. Under the strong support of major producers of well-known calendar brands, the exhibition continues to increase in its scale and grade. With notable outcomes, the exhibition received positive praises from all sectors of society. Our exhibition provides a comprehensive technological platform and communicational channel for producers, agents, and dealers' of calendars and festival gifts from all areas of the country and better coordinated with the extensive development of enterprises. Consequently, it becomes a premier event for producers to introduce and display their newest wall calendars, desk calendars, couplets, and festival gifts.
    Year after year, this exhibition attracts procuring professionals who are in the business of crafts, gifts, and decorations from Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Middle East Countries, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong to come to the scene to visit and procure. The exhibits displayed in our show have focused scope, strong targeted customers. We not only provide the best trading platform for supply side and demand side to understand the latest market information and industrial trends about festival gifts timely, but our exhibitors could also take full advantage of the exhibition period to establish business contacts and negotiate business with distributors, exporters, importers, and other relevant parties from all over the world, therefore, enhancing their company images, expanding sales channels, and maximizing trading opportunities.
    Recalling the last show held in July 2007, the exhibition area was 7,000 square meters which was the largest in scale compared with previous editions. Enterprises participated in this show reached more than 300, and professional visitors from all over the country, as well as from North America, Europe, Middle East, Japan, South Korea, and other main exporting markets have been attracted to the scene to hold trade talks. The exhibition allows more enterprises in the business of calendars, festival gifts to promote nationwide and to create good economic benefits.
    In order to promote the development of calendar and festival gifts industry, to set up a promotional, displaying, and cooperative platform for industrial manufacturers and dealers, and to create business opportunities, booth booking of "Guangzhou International Calendar, Festival Gifts, and Notebook Exhibition 2008" which will be held in Guangzhou Jinhan Exhibition Centre from July 23 to July 25, 2008 have started. This edition is expected to be more exciting, more brilliant, and more new stylish and quality products are going to be displayed in the show. By then, there will be thousands of purchasers from domestic and all over the world to visit, participate, and share this premier event!
    
    We warmly invite you to actively participate in the "Guangzhou International Calendar, Festival Gifts, and Notebook Exhibition 2008", and we look forward to a more enjoyable and close cooperation with everyone!