Pyongyang autumn international trade fair opens
22/9/2008 16:12
The fourth Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair opened in Pyongyang
at the Three Revolution Exhibition of Pyongyang today.
More than 150
companies from 15 countries and regions took part in the four-day fair, which is
scheduled to close on Thursday.
Over 70 Chinese companies, mainly from
China's northeastern Liaoning province, attended the event.
Items on sale
range from electronic products, machines, medicines to costumes.
"We will
further expand and strengthen every kind of economic cooperation and exchange
under the principle of equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit," said Ri
Myong San, vice minister of foreign trade of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (DPRK).
The Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair, which was first
held in 2005, is an annual event like its spring version, the Pyongyang Spring
International Trade Fair.
Xinhua
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