A promotional conference for two key events – the third Overseas Chinese Import Expo and Qingtian Import Wine Fair, as well as the first International Coffee Expo – was held recently, according to the event organizers.

They said that the shows will take place in the same time and at the same venue from Nov 14 to 16 in Qingtian county, Lishui city, East China's Zhejiang province.

An exhibitor cuts exotic Spanish dried cured ham called jamon at the second Overseas Chinese Import Expo held in Qingtian, in November 2019. [Photo/people.cn]

More than 20 import merchants from Qingtian Import Commodity City brought high-quality samples of wine, coffee, Spanish cured jamon ham and other imported commodities to promotion – attracting many import commodity buyers from all over the country.

This year, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the expo will be staged both offline and online.

Organizers said that those exhibitors and buyers who could not come to the venue in person,  can still participate in the expo through cloud exhibition, live broadcasting, cloud signing and cloud procurement.

What's more, the International Coffee Expo will be held for the first time.

According to officials, about 800 wine enterprises and 200 coffee companies will be invited to the event.