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DATES AND CITY CHANGE
FOR SIOF 2022
SUZHOU INTERNATIONAL EXPO CENTER
he 21 China (Shanghai) International exhibition planning and advertising,
st
Optics Fair (SIOF 2022) which was introducing innovative activities, enhancing
Tto be hosted from 21 to 23 February buyer invitation, upgrading services and
2022 has now been rescheduled. Along all other related works, in order to build
with the new dates of 22 to 24 April this a higher-quality comprehensive trade
year, there’s a change of venue as well. services platform for exhibitors and buyers”.
Instead of the Shanghai World Expo About the new location, the Organizing
Exhibition and Convention Center, SIOF Committee says Suzhou is one of the
will be held in Suzhou, a city that is an important city centres in the Yangtze River
hour’s drive from Shanghai. Delta; it is a national high-tech industrial
The organisers have announced that base, with a developed economy and
these changes have been necessitated In beautiful environment. It is only an hour’s
order to implement the overall deployment drive from Shanghai and easily reached
of national epidemic prevention, effectively by high-speed rail and airport bus. It is
protect the health and the benefits of also a connecting hub of the important
exhibitors and visitors and minimise the manufacturing areas of the eyewear
impact of the epidemic on the exhibition. industry. The new venue, the Suzhou
International Expo Center, enjoys the
In its communique to exhibitors and the advantages of convenient transportation,
media, the organisers of SIOF have stated an ample exhibition area with complete
that they “will take advantage of the time peripheral facilities, and “it is well ready
spared from the adjournment to improve to host SIOF 2022”.
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