The 3rd China (Ningxia) International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo will be held in Yinchuan from June 9 to 11, attracting 350 exhibitors from all over the world, with an exhibition area of 17,000 square meters.

Both China and Import Hall will be set up in this exhibition. China's wine regions include the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia, Xinjiang, Yantai in Shandong, Changli in Hebei, Tonghua in Jilin, and Gaoshan in Sichuan, etc. The import hall includes France, Italy, Germany, Moldova, Georgia, Chile, Greece, Australia, South Korea, etc.

China’s first wine-themed conference will be held from June 9 to 10 in Ningxia. The conference will also be held jointly with  International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo.

The conference, themed “Nature, Innovation, Culture and Ecology”, will invite experts and enterprises in the wine-making industry at home and abroad, and officials from 47 wine-producing countries and representatives of nine international organizations.

A total of 2,000 wines from over 100 wineries hailing from 12 wine-producing regions across China will be displayed.   The event will feature forums on climate, technologies, trade and investment, as well as wine culture and tourism.

An official with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said the conference aims to boost global wine industry’s recovery after being impacted by Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic downturn.

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China has emerged as the country’s largest wine-producing region after more than 40 years of development.   It now has 228 wineries that produced 138 million bottles of wine in 2022, accounting for 40% of the country’s total bottled wine production.