1996.8.8-1996.8.15.
Held from August 8th-15th of 1996, 1303 companies and organizations which from 26 provinces, cities, prefectures and 11 countries and regions attended the fair. 1326 booths were set up. 4600 merchants presented who were from 61 countries. The general turnover was 1253 million US$, 17% lower than the previous session. Among it was 337 million US$ export (including 53 million US$ border trade and 12.5 million US$ foreign invested companies export). 300 million US$ import (including 33 million US$ border trade and 12 million US$ overseas trade). The projects that introduced foreign investment amounted to 82. The contracted investments amounted to 560 million US$ including 325 million US$ foreign investments. Foreign contracted construction contracts were 11 of them dealing with 56 million US$. Dealt countries and regions amounted to 36. That included: Burma 89.46 million US$, Hong Kong and Macao 64 million US$, Japan 44 million US$, the European Union 32.2 million US$, USA 22.7 million US$, Thailand 10.1 million US$, South Korea 9.24 million US$, Taiwan 7.3 million US$, Australia 3.2 million US$, Singapore 2.7 million US$, etc. Among the export commodities were 23.4% of chemicals, 16.5% of textiles, 15.6% of machinery and electric products, 14% of non-ferrous metals, 13.4% of farm produces, and 17.1% of others. Contracts dealing with technological introduction and import amounted to 331. Large-scaled contract of this kind increased. The bulk trade volume featured like machinery, chemicals, raw material and auxiliary material, textiles, farm produces and so on.

Provinces, Prefectures and Cities Organized Delegations Attended Countries and Regions Overseas Exhibitors Transaction volume (US$) Import and Export (US$) Foreign Capita (US$) Introducing Foreign Investment (US$)
26 61 4,800 125.3 million 63.7 million 56.0 million 5.6 million