China (Beijing) International Imported Food, Beverage and Catering Expo (FCE China 2013) will continue to be held in Beijing National Agricultural Exhibition Hall from August 23 to 25, 2013. At the same time, the 6th China (Beijing) International Wine Exhibition (First Wine China 2013) was held, which is a professional international imported food trade exhibition with the largest collection of international exhibitors in North China.
According to the organizing committee, it is expected that more than 500 domestic and foreign enterprises will participate in the exhibition, a 21% increase over the last one. Among them, it is worth mentioning that the proportion of international exhibitors in this exhibition has reached 43%. Since 2012, the imported food field has maintained a stable and rising trend, and imported food will become the highlight of this exhibition.
Imported food is growing rapidly in China, which is poised to become the world's largest consumer of imported food
According to the Food Industry Association of the United States, China's imported food is in a period of rapid growth. By 2018, China will become the world's largest consumer of imported food, with the market size of imported food on the Chinese mainland reaching 480 billion yuan.
Now people's consumption grade has been gradually improved and upgraded, the diet taste has gradually changed from the past subsistence type to nutrition type, health type, leisure type, flavor type and experience type. In China, more and more people regard delicious and healthy imported food as part of their daily consumption. Whether it is students, office workers or middle-aged and elderly people, imported food is favored by more and more people of different ages. Experts predict that the young consumer group, which accounts for two thirds of China's estimated 800 million people, especially the "new new people" born in the 1980s and 1990s, will become the strongest and most active main market in China in the next 10 years due to the influence of Western culture and lifestyle. According to the analysis of experts, China's consumption of imported food will reach a "parallel spurt" growth in the coming period, the market prospect is very broad.
China's wine market is going from strength to strength and will be number one in the world in the future
According to statistics, the Chinese wine market is currently growing at an average annual rate of 20%, while the international market is growing at 1%-2% in the same period. It is estimated that by 2020, the demand for wine in the Chinese market will become the first in the world. In the face of the growing demand, Wine suppliers from all over the world are coming here, and the First Wine China Exhibition opens a door for them to enter the Chinese market. Various wine tastings and seminars will be held during the exhibition, which will make the whole exhibition more colorful.
