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Record-Breaking International IC-China Conference & Exhibition to Feature Over 1,400 Booths in 2008 -- up 34 Percent Year-on-Year

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"IIC-China has continued to be mainland China's premier technical event, offering even more choices of business opportunities for participants through its robust growth," said Mark A. Saunderson, president of Global Sources' Electronics Business Unit. "This year, we have 40 percent more exhibitors and expect more than 30,000 engineers to attend."

In 2008, Global Sources expects to expand its successful Shenzhen, Shanghai andBeijing IIC-China show line-up by offering more than 100 booths at the newChengdu venue. Scheduled shows are:

    -- Chengdu: February 28-29, Chengdu Century City New International
       Convention and Exposition Center
    -- Shenzhen: March 3-4, Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center
    -- Beijing: March 6-7, China World Trade Center
    -- Shanghai: March 10-11, Shanghai Mart

Components Pavilion Success Marked by 142 Percent Growth, Expansion to Two New Locations

Building on the successful 2007 debut of the event's Components Pavilion in Shenzhen, IIC-China is featuring a larger Components Pavilion in Shenzhen in 2008, plus two new locations inChengdu andShanghai. Total Components Pavilion booths are expected to top 300, up 142 percent year-on-year.

IIC-China Supports Robust MainlandChina Electronics Industry Growth with 2009 Expansion

Saunderson continues: "Mainland China's electronics industry remains robust despite the US-led economic slowdown.

"Research firm, Euromonitor International forecasts consumption of high-street electronics to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 14 percent, reaching $151 billion in 2011 and iSuppli's IC Insights places mainland China's chip consumption at $100-billion by 2010.

"International and domestic demand for new electronic products is feeding new and fast-growing industry hubs in mainlandChina likeWuhan and Xi'an. Wuhan's electronics industry alone grew 58 percent in 2007.

"IIC-China plans to deliver design knowledge and associated technology to design innovators in these cities, plus extended reach for our customers, for the very first time in 2009."

In 2009, IIC-China is scheduled to be held in all of mainland China's six major electronics hubs as follows:

    Spring:

    -- Shenzhen    Feb. 26-27
    -- Xi'an       March 2-3
    -- Beijing     March 5-6
    -- Shanghai    March 9-10

    Fall:

    -- Chengdu     Nov. 5-6
    -- Wuhan       Nov. 9-10
    -- Shenzhen    Nov. 12-13

IIC-China is open to qualified visitors from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. More information and online pre-registration are available at http://www.iic-china.com .

Global Sources Design-to-Export Solution for Greater China's Electronics Industry

IIC-China is an important part of Global Sources' portfolio of electronics industry media and trade shows. Combining 29 online and 11 print media, plus four events which run 14 times across eight cities, Global Sources provides Greater China's electronics industry with end-to-end support -- from product conceptualization through to export of finished products.

Global Sources also holds Greater China's key electronics industry events, which include International IC-Taiwan Conference & Exhibition ( http://www.iic-taiwan.com ) and theChina Sourcing Fair: Electronics & Components ( http://www.chinasourcingfair.com ).

For more information about Global Sources, visit http://www.corporate.globalsources.com .

About Global Sources

Global Sources is a leading business-to-business media company and a primary facilitator of trade with GreaterChina. The core business is facilitating trade from GreaterChina to the world, using a wide range of English-language media. The other business segment facilitates trade from the world to GreaterChina, and trade withinChina, using Chinese-language media.

The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 657,000 active buyers source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and sell, Global Sources enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in over 230 countries.

The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 2 million products and more than 170,000 suppliers annually through 14 online marketplaces, 13 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and 10 specialized trade shows which run 32 times a year across nine cities.

Suppliers receive more than 27 million sales leads annually from buyers through Global Sources Online ( http://www.globalsources.com ) alone.

Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 37 years. Global Sources' network covers more than 69 cities worldwide. In mainlandChina, Global Sources has over 2,100 team members in more than 44 locations, and a community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine readers for Chinese-language media.

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