Guests cut the ribbon at a ceremony to open the 13th China Textile, Apparel Trade Show at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on July 24. Attendees included Sun Guoxiang (center), China's consul general in New York; Zhang Yankai (fourth from right), executive vice-chairman of the Sub-Council Textile Industry in China; and Detlef Braun (third from right), management board member of Messe Frankfurt GmbH. The three-day show brought together 356 textile producers from China and 300 others from Turkey, South Korea, Indonesia and the US.  Provided to China Daily