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IFDA Establishes China ChapterThe China chapter, organized in 1992 with 100 members under the leadership of Yu Yong, general manager of Beijing Jianda International Decoration and president of the publication, World Decoration News, was unable to sustain itself as a full chapter because of the internal political situation. While a core group of its members, primarily from China, but including a Korean, continued as members-at-large, the group has now been reconstituted and re-chartered as a chapter. A contingent of its members visited the United States recently and met with the IFDA leadership, indicating their interest in reviving the relationship. The chapter is energized by China's new role in the world economy and stimulated by entry in the WTO and the up-coming 2008 Olympics as well as the developing living standards of the Chinese people. IFDA's Asian members currently represent a cross-section of professionals in industries related to the manufacture, distribution and promotion of China's home furnishings. Yu Yong, noting that the difficulty of communications between China and the United States had been a deterrent in maintaining the chapter, said that they are eager "to learn advanced experiences and technology of America so as to stimulate the bilateral communication and cooperation between furnishing and design industries of America and China." He stressed that, with China's new role, "the distance between China and the world is becoming shorter and shorter" and thus "more and more professional men want to join IFDA" He added that "as the economy of China is continually developing and the standard of people rising fast, people are putting more and more focus on the recognition of the outside world and giving more and more enthusiasms to various communications." |
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