Ningbo International Fashion Fair 2012

NINGBO INTERNATIONAL FASHION FAIR, IFFAIR for short, is listed as a certified A-level exhibition by Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, one of the most influential expos in China and part of Ningbo International Fashion Festival.

With "Public Fashion; International Flavor" being its subject, with "To develop Ningbo into a national city famous for its garment industry" being its objective, and with "To be more internationalized, better developed, more professional and market-related" being its guideline, IFFAIR is to make Ningbo an important base for garment production, a center where garment related business gather together and frequent technology exchanges take place, and an opening window for release of the latest trend in the garment and fashion industry.

The garment and fashion industry in Ningbo is sure to exert more influence throughout the world by way of products display, fair trading, industrial cooperation, technology exchanges, trend release, and forums, etc. to be carried out on IFFAIR.

Ningbo is home to "Hong Band Tailors" --- a group of people famous for garment production, the origin of modern garment industry in China, and the place where the first piece of suit, and the first Sun Yat-sen's uniform/ Chinese Tunic Suit were made and where the first book on suit tailoring was published.

Now Ningbo has developed into the biggest base for garment production and a favorable base for famous brand nurturing and exportation, and boasts more than 3,000 enterprises proficient in garment production. Each year we are to witness that up to 1.5 billion clothes and suits are made, accounting for more than 13% of the total production volume nationwide. In the Year 2006, the export value of textile and garment in Ningbo reached more than USD 6.32 billion, boasting a growth of 27.4% in degree as compared to the value in 2005.

With the development of the garment industry, a number of enterprises are