1998.6.6.-1998.6.10.
Held in 1998, 2000 companies and organizations, which were from 27 provinces, cities, and prefectures, attended the fair. The sub-regional countries organized their delegation and led by the ministers of commerce or trade. Other countries attended including USA, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and so on. Exhibitors from 14 countries presented the fair. Hong Kong even set up special zones for themselves. The large firms of trade, finance and investment from presented at the fair. The overseas companies attending were over 200, and 1000 merchant preventatives visited it. The amount of visitors reached 1400. In addition 6000 visitors from 57 countries came to the Kunming for visit. The general turnover of this session was 1817 million US$, 2.5 million US$ more and 15.95% higher than the previous session. Among it was 719 million US$ export (17.33 million US$ of them by foreign invested companies) 73.42% higher than the previous session. 223 million US$ import (overseas exhibitors 1.5 million US$), 38.57% lower than the previous session. The projects that introduced foreign investment amounted to 61. 15.27% lower than the previous session The contracted investments amounted to 788 million US$, increased by 108.47%. Among them were 10 projects introducing more than 30 million US$ foreign investment. And the proportions were: transportation 210 million US$. industrial projects 189 million US$ and tourism exploitation 110 million US$.

Provinces, Prefectures and Cities Organized Delegations Attended Countries and Regions Overseas Exhibitors Transaction volume (US$) Import and Export (US$) Foreign Capita (US$) Introducing Foreign Investment (US$)
27 57 8,000 181.7 million 95.1 million 7.3 million 78.8 million