In from October 14th to 16th this year, the first international event after the Sichuan earthquake, the third international procurement festival of the 2008 Chinese women's shoes city, will be held in Chengdu.

Yesterday afternoon, the Sichuan Provincial Government Information Office held a news conference to announce the preparations for the procurement Festival.

This procurement Festival has been publicizing by the early stage merchants. At present, there are 6 well-known footwear industry organizations such as the Italy shoe Masters Association, the Federation of Spanish footwear industries, and 38 top European footwear enterprises such as Italy Bai Lin and Zhu Saipei. They are expected to take part in overseas professional purchasers. There will be more than 110 overseas professional purchasers. The exhibition specifications, the number and scale of exhibitors, and the quality of exhibitors will increase substantially compared with the previous two sessions.

According to the circular, the "women's shoes city of China", which is the core of Chengdu's Wuhou District, is one of the key industrial clusters in Sichuan. At present, more than 2000 shoe making enterprises and more than 3000 shoe material supporting enterprises have been clustered. Among them, more than 1100 women's shoes production enterprises, with an annual output of 140 million pairs, yield the third place in the country, of which 60% to 70% products are exported, and the export countries include 50~60 countries such as the United States and Russia.

"The earthquake has an impact on the footwear industry in Sichuan, but it is not serious."