Western China International Fair (WCIF) require the Japanese companies to withdraw because of Diaoyu Island Issue

According to Japan's Kyodo News reported, a number of Japanese companies, originally plan more than 60 Japanese companies participate in the Western China International Fair due to receiving organizers requirements to cancel its exhibitors. Western China International Fair is already one of China's most influential international fairs, this year have opened on the 25th, in Chengdu, Sichuan, continued from Tuesday to Sunday.

According to reports, the day before the opening evening of the 24th, the organizers suddenly notice Canon and Hiroshima Prefecture and such Japanese enterprises and related organizations to prepare "Please pause exhibitors take down the booth", which means this large international fairs participated by the EU, South Korea and other 4,500 companies from about 50 countries and regions excluded Japanese companies.

Kyodo news agency pointed out that the organizers of the WCIF on Monday issued a notice to the Japanese companies and local governments, asking them "to exit the current exhibition and remove all exhibits. Prior to that, there are more than 60 Japanese companies or local governments to enroll in this exhibition. WCIF is the largest International Fair which has the great support by the Chinese government to promote the development of the western region. 

About 4500 companies from about 50 countries and regions participated. On the last year WCIF, thanks to the support of the Chinese Government, the participants reached commercial and investment transactions amounted to 1.2 trillion yuan (about 189 billion U.S. dollars).

Reported that the September 11, after the Japanese government announced that the Diaoyu Islands "nationalization" China has said it will take resolute countermeasures. In addition to send surveillance vessels to the Diaoyu Islands to proclaim sovereignty, China has also strengthened the customs and inspection of imported goods in Japan, while delay the issuance of work visas to Japanese business people.

Environmental Technology Expo scheduled to be held in Shanghai on the 20th "2012 Japan-China Green Expo" has also been canceled. The original exhibition will be the current West Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and the Japan-China Economic Association, by the impact of the anti-Japanese demonstrations last week to give up the exhibition. 

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Western China International Fair referred to as the WCIF, founded in 2000, co-sponsored by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the National Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the National Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, Inc., 12 provinces, autonomous regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which is the National Exposition of the specific implementation of the western development strategy.

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