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DUSSELDORF Kemoko Turay Youth Jersey , Germany, Feb.1 (Xinhua)-- A two-day art exhibition entitled "National Cultural and Artistic Exhibition in Qinghai, China" kicked off here on Thursday, showcasing unique traditional culture and art as well as beautiful landscape in northwest China's Qinghai Province.


The exhibition, held by the information office of the Qinghai provincial government, featured over 100 fine pictures and dozens of thangka, a traditional Tibetan Buddhist scroll painting. It displayed local characteristics of arts, crafts Quincy Wilson Youth Jersey , natural scenery and folk customs.


When attending the opening ceremony of the exhibition, Xia Wujiao, a Chinese master of arts and crafts, showed visitors the majority of the work in the exhibition.


The exhibition held in North Rhine-Westphalia. a highly developed area of German culture and art with multi-cultural dynamics, presents a good opportunity for both the Qinghai province and the North Rhine-Westphalia state to exchange ideas, said Chinese official He Wenbo on behalf of the Chinese Consulate General in Dusseldorf.


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Egyptian workers pack oranges on conveyors inside a packhouse located in Beheira province, north of Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Jan. 24, 2018. Thanks to the fast-growing demand in China for quality fruits, Egypt has witnessed a rapid increase in its citrus exports to China in the past years, which has led many Egyptian citrus farms to prosper. Now Egypt, famous for producing sweet juicy oranges Braden Smith Youth Jersey , has become the third largest exporter of citrus to China after South Africa and the United States. (XinhuaZhao Dingzhe)

CAIROBEHEIRA, Egypt, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Thanks to the fast-growing demand in China for quality fruits, Egypt has witnessed a rapid increase in its citrus exports to China in the past years, which has led many Egyptian citrus farms to prosper.


Now Egypt, famous for producing sweet juicy oranges, has become the third largest exporter of citrus to China after South Africa and the United States.


"We began citrus export to China with over 23,000 tons in the first year in 2015 Darius Leonard Youth Jersey , which then increased to more than 36,000 tons in 2016 and finally jumped to exceed 101,000 tons in 2017, which is more than three times increase since we started," said Mohsen al-Beltagy, chairman of Egypt's Horticultural Export Improvement Association (HEIA).


HEIA, founded in 1996, is in charge of selecting certified farms and arranging citrus exports to several parts of the world including European and Asian states in coordination with concerned agricultural authorities home and abroad.


"We inspect the farms and choose the best of them to export to China Quenton Nelson Youth Jersey , in cooperation with officials from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture who visit us here to see the farms," Beltagy told Xinhua at his office in Cairo.


HEIA also holds training programs for Egyptian citrus farmers to raise the quality of their fruits to be exported to China, Beltagy said.


Han Bing, economic and commercial counselor at China's Embassy in Cairo, noted that Egypt's orange exports to China hit 20 million U.S. dollars in 2015 and sharply increased to 80 million dollars in 2016.


"Chinese market is a big, open and highly-competitive. Our imports from all over the world will reach 10 trillion dollars in the next five years," Hang told Xinhua.


He said he expected to see further increase in the exports of Egyptian agricultural products to China in the future. "We help Egyptians improve the quality of products to reach our import standards and we expect to see more Egyptian agricultural products in the Chinese market," he said.


Maghrabi Agriculture (MAFA) T.Y. Hilton Youth Jersey , one of Egyptian citrus farms approved for exports to China, exported 2,500 tons of oranges to the world's most populous country last year.


Stretched on a vast reclaimed desert area in the Beheira province to the north of Cairo, MAFA looked like a piece of art with its rows and rows of aligned citrus trees bearing shinning round-shaped golden fruits waiting to be harvested and sent to the packing facility before exporting.


"Each acre produces from 20 to 25 tons of citrus and we have around 5,500 acres in MAFA. We produce some 100,000 tons per year, about 90 percent of which is for export and 10 percent for the local market," said Arafa al-Sheikh Andrew Luck Youth Jersey , head of MAFA's citrus department.


He told Xinhua that MAFA takes great care of its citrus fruits from the early stage through well-managed fertilization, irrigation and chemical treatment.


"The citrus quality is completely based on biologic resistance, pest control, and most limited and timely use of approved pesticides. We take care of the products from beginning to end," the engineer said.


Inside MAFA's spacious packhouse, dozens of workers, all in white uniform, packed oranges on several conveyors after they were screened by an electronic sizer that separated them based on their size T.J. Green Womens Jersey , color and defect degree.


Adel Qiritam, MAFA's general manager, said that MAFA uses Egyptian and foreign expertise, best post-harvest experts and advanced technologies to achieve the highest quality of its products to satisfy its clients.


"For instance, this is the second year for MAFA to use this electronic sizer, which detects all defects. The previous one only classified fruits according to their color and diameter. This one uses the color, diameter, size Marlon Mack Womens Jersey , external defects and everything to separate them," he told Xinhua in his office overlooking the packhouse's interior.


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