According to KPMG's latest market analysis, China has exceeded Germany to be the world's largest machine tool market. Germany, the traditional machine tool market losing power with stagnation, is placed second; Japan and the United States disaggregated third and fourth places. As the most dynamic manufacturing industry chain, the entire eastern China market, relying on the Yangtze Shanghai as the center of economic development, gradually developed into a machine tool products unprecedented demand.  
At the same time, Germany, Japan, Korea, UK, USA, Poland, India, overseas machine tool enterprises swarm into Shanghai to seize the Chinese market. And machine tools to build global trading platform 2007 EASTPO Ninth International Machine Tool Fair ( Shanghai International Machine Tool Fair) operate as a full communication platform  providing  enterprises home and abroad with the advance industry technology, the latest products, the best business opportunities.

Seizing Grand Business Opportunities

With China's accession to the WTO, enormous challenges and opportunities are forcing our machine tool industry to accelerate the development of high-tech, which is to be applied on the actual production to produce irreplaceable products. The world-famous Shanghai New International Expo Center is chosen to be the venue for the Ninth EASTPO International Machine Tool Fair 2007 from July 25 to 28, which is to meet with the needs of machine tool products by the Yangtze River area, to develop the machine industry in east China, and to promote business cooperation and exchanges with foreign counterparts. This show will be fully upgrade in grade and size in the basis of the eighth EASTPO international machine tool fair to be the largest machine tool show in Shanghai and the second largest in China 2007 with the total area of 70000 sqm more, attracting more than 80,000 exhibitors and professional visitors from 36 counties and regions as Germany, Japan, Korea, UK, USA, Poland, India, etc.