ITMA ASIA + CITME Combining

PRESS CONFERENCE

Hour: 17:30 – 18:20 

Date:  Oct. 17,2007

Venue: Hebei Hall, Great Hall of the People, Beijing

Schedule:

17:30 – 17:25             Registration for media

17:30 – 17:35             Host to declare press beginning and introduce the conductors & guests

17:35 – 17:40             To make speech by Mr. Go Yong,

Vice-President of China National Textile & Apparel Council

(CNTAC) & Chairman of China Textile Machinery Association
 (CTMA)

17:40 – 17:45            To make speech by Mr. Edward Roberts, President of CEMATEX

17:45 – 17:50            To make speech by Mr. Zhang Yankai,

Vice-President of China National Textile & Apparel Council

(CNTAC) & Executive Vice-Chairman of the Sub-Council of Textile

Industry, CCPIT ( CCPIT TEX)

17:50 -17:55             To make speech by Mr. Yao Rui, Vice-Chairman of CIEC

The 10th International Textile Machinery Exhibition ( CITME 2006) will be held in Beijing from Oct. 17 21, 2006. And two iinternational textile machinery shows, ITMA Asia and CITME , which were previously held in Singapore and Beijing, will be combined from 2008.

The show will be held in Shanghai every two years. The first is scheduled for July 27 to 31, 2008.

ITMA Asia was launched in 2001 by the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers. CITME was launched in 1988 by the China Textile Machinery Association, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the China International Exhibition Centre Corp.

There are over 50 media that will attend the event, such as Xinhua Agency, China News, China Textile News, China Textile (journal), Texleader, Fashion Times, China Fashion Weekly, China Exhibition, China Conference & Exhibition, International Business Daily, China Broadcast, Xinhua Net, Sohu net, Sina.net etc.