Mr. Oscar Arias, president of the Republic of Costa Rica introduced the general information of Costa Rica	Mr. Marco Vinicio Ruiz, minister of the Foreign Trade Department introduced the achievements of Costa Rica’s trade development

Mr. Wan Jifei, the chairman of CCPIT addressed on the ceremony	Ms. Ma Xiuhong, the China's Vice Commerce Minister on the ceremony

Following the forum, President Oscar Ariasof accompanied by Mr. Wan Jifei, the chairman of CCPIT to visit the beautiful stands of Costa Rica’ enterprises and communicated with the Chinese trade visitors and invited guests.

Mr. Oscar Arias, president of the Republic of Costa Rica communicated with the Chinese investors	President Oscar Arias communicated with business representatives from Costa Rica

After the visit, the chairman of the Costa Rica Council for the Promotion of Foreign Trade introduced the export opportunities and the investment environment of Costa Rica. Investors and business executives from Costa Rica and China had the opprtunity to discuss mutual intersts and potential co-operation with each other.

The Chinese trade visitors marveled the stands of Costa Rica	Journalist of World Travel Online took photo with the respresentative from Costa Rica

China is the second largest trade partner of Costa Rica, while the latter was the eighth largest to China in Latin America.

Bilateral trade between the two countries was recorded at 1.04 billion U.S. dollars in the first five months in 2007, up 69.5 percent over the same period last year, with Chinese exports to Costa Ricaat 164 million U.S. dollars and imports from Costa Rica at 877 million U.S. dollars.

China's imports from Costa Rica range from electronic products and integrated circuits to micro-electronic components, diodes and other mechanical and electrical products.

Costa Rica mainly imports from China shipping containers, computers, telecommunications products and also electronic products and integrated circuits.

Costa Rica is an approved destination for Chinese nationals to visit hence many corporate travel organisers are very interested in finding out more informaiton about Costa Rica as a destination for investment, for doing business and for incentive travel. The outbound tour operators are very keen on sending chinese holiday makers for leisure travel to Costa Rica too.