ASEAN mission visits China

ASEAN mission visits China

BEIJING (AFP): Trade ministers from Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam will lead large business delegations to the Kunming Export Commodities Fair over the next week, the China Daily reported Saturday.

In all, more than 1,500 business-people from 16 nations are registered to attend the fair in the capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, which borders Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos and is tipped as the next boom region of China.

"This year's fair overshadows the previous four fairs in terms of participants and enterprises," said Yunnan vice governor Liu Jing.

"We had to add 300 more booths and even that could not meet demand."

The fair opened Friday in Kunming and will run for a week.