By Agencies
The second Cambodia-International Machinery Industrial Fair kicked off
on Friday, aiming at promoting the development of industries, officials
said.
More than 200 exhibitors from 20 countries and regions have
been displaying the international leading brands of industrial
equipment in textile and garment, footwear and leather, fabrics and
garment accessories, plastics and rubber, printing and packaging, food
processing, medical and pharmaceutical equipment, and
agriculture-related machinery, said Judy Wang, president of Yorkers
Trade and Marketing Service of Hong Kong, which organized the event.
The
exhibitors are from Cambodia, China, Czech, Germany, China's Hong Kong,
China's Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia,
Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom,
the United States and Vietnam, she said.
The 4-day event, held at
the capital's Diamond Island Exhibition Center, would be a platform for
manufacturers, buyers, traders, distributors, and government officials
to meet in order to exchange ideas on the development of industrial
sector.
"It is also a chance for manufacturers to modernize their
machinery to increase production capacity," she said, adding that this
year's event was 35 percent bigger in scale than that of last year.
Mao
Thora, secretary of state at the Ministry of Commerce, said at the
inaugural ceremony that Cambodian industrial base mainly relied on
garment, accounted for about 75 percent of the country's industrial
sector.
"The event paves the way for Cambodia to develop its
current and future machinery industries with up-to-date modern
technologies," he said.
He added that industries are deemed to be
main pillars of the Cambodian economic development and they have been
starting to gain steady progress in recent years.
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