The China Tianjin Investment and Trade Fair and the 8th PECC International Trade and Investment Expo closed on April 19 had seen thousands of visitors and nearly 8,000 enterprises from across China and from abroad and about 20 billion yuan ($3.07 billion) worth of contracts signed.

It also was the site of 1 billion yuan worth of trade and more than 8,500 investment projects unveiled and more than 400 agreements reached, covering advanced manufacturing, new energy, financial factoring, infrastructure, e-commerce, logistics, commerce and trade, tourism, real estate and mining.

Gansu province's Zhangye city signed 14 project agreements, involving 1.59 billion yuan in investment, while three enterprises from Urumqi signed deals worth 320 million yuan, and Shanxi province introduced 786 projects, worth 1-trillion yuan. There was also a commercial real estate promotion meeting in Tianjin's Hexi district concerning 129 commercial buildings with a total area of 3.43 million square meters, where the focus was on finance, commerce and headquarters economy.

The fair also showed at least 10,000 products in its import - export, e-commerce, time-honored brands, quality life, and artware sections and pulled in a great number of merchants from Taiwan and the countries of Germany, the UK, France, Australia, and South Korea and had more than 3,000 imported food, cosmetics, nursing and healthcare products on display. It also gave dealers good chance to communicate and discuss cooperation in smart logistics, consumer goods, and source tracing. Retail sales went over 120 million yuan at the fair, surpassing all previous sessions.