CHFE, short for China International Housing and Furnishing Exhibition, is one of the three biggest exhibitions greatly supported by the Chinese Light Industry Federation. The theme of the exhibition is : “To advocate green housing, and to realize well-off life”. We efficiently organizes enterprises and professional customers from the housing and furnishing industry in order to show their brands and images, to help them cooperate and do business, to let them know of the trend of the industry, to enable them to exchange technology, and to nurture new brands and to bring businessmen and consumers together, adequately helping to meet both the demand and the supply. In March, 2005, according to the research findings of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Ningbo was listed the 10th among all cities of the country in terms of comprehensive competence, and the first in terms of structural competence. The Yangzi River Delta District, where Ningbo is, is a key area for a new round of economic development, a leading district that will realize the well-off society, and a main district that produces and consumes products of the housing and furnishing industry as well. The 1st CHFE was held in Beijing in 2002, and had been a great success. Referring to statistics, more than one hundred thousand people attended the exhibition, and exhibitors together with purchasers were altogether more than 800. And the total trade volume was more than 300 million Yuan, among which, the export-oriented trade volume was up to 10.5 million dollars. The 2nd CHFE was held in Ningbo in April, 2004, in which there are various kinds of goods, including products of the real estate industry, materials for decoration and construction, furniture and household appliances, household textiles, goods for gardening, and private cars, etc. In addition, we left an exhibition unit for the use of inviting merchants and introducing investments, and more than 500 enterprises applied to attend such an exhibition. The exhibition unit covered an area of 45,000 square kilometers, and up to 160,000 people attended the exhibition. The total trade volume was up to RMB 2,000,000,000.

On April 8th, 2005, the 3rd CHFE was held in Ningbo International Exhibition Center with 2,500 exhibition units available, and 760 enterprises attended the exhibition. Customers from both home and abroad were up to 12,000 and the total trade volume was up to 2,575,500,000 Yuan. During the four-day exhibition, about 200,000 people attended the exhibition, and we warmly welcome customers from both home and abroad come to attend our exhibitions either as exhibitors or customers.

Exhibition of Brands: China International Housing and Furnishing Exposition (CHFE), one of the three grand exhibitions to which Chinese Light Industry Federation has paid much attention, is integrated by exhibition, trade, sale, assessment, conference, competition and performance. Being a brand built up by the central government, the concerning industry and the local government, CHFE plays an influential role in the industry.

Access to the World: CHFE, an exhibition of those products, including the upper stream products of real estate, the middle stream ones of building materials and house decoration, and the downstream products of household articles, organically accelerates the whole industry chain and promote mutual exchanges.

To Form a Platform: CHFE fully displays the latest achievements in the development of the industry and reveals the trend of the industry. It attracts businessmen from both home and abroad. CHFE is to provide the platform for various enterprises to show their brands and images, to cooperate and do business, to know of the trend of the industry, to exchange technology, and to nurture new brands and is a golden bridge which bring businessmen and consumers together, adequately helping to meet both the demand and the supply.

Solid Combination: CHFE is persistent in improving its quality, developing into a larger scale, and possessing a stronger ability, and has successfully combine excellent exhibition brands, such as China International Housing and Furnishing Exposition (CHFE), Ningbo Real Estate Exhibition (NREE), and Ningbo Architectural & Decoration Material Exposition (NADME) together, so as to complement each other and to achieve a win-win situation and mutual prosperity. Thanks to a variety of advanced science and technology and communication methods, China International Housing and Furnishing Exposition has activated a solid and mutual exchanges and complementation among the live CHFE, CHFE on line, flat CHFE, CHFE in the air and CHFE through video frequency.

Four Strategies: CHFE will wholly bring four strategies into effect, namely, brand-oriented strategy, internationalized strategy, professionalized strategy, and efficiency-oriented strategy.

All-the -way service: CHFE offers overall services for business trading and demand, promotes incessant, rapid and sound development of the housing and furnishing industry, boost the development of Ningbo, contributes to the city’s prosperity, and to serve the construction of a harmonious and well-off society in all directions.