The fifth China Folk Art Fair took place in Changchun over the past week. Changchun is the capital of the northeastern Jilin Province. The fair was wrapped up with a record 108.2 million yuan (15.91 million U.S. dollars) worth of business deals. The event attracted a record 1.88 million visitors. About 2,600 exhibitors from China and nine other countries, including Russia, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and India, displayed more than 80,000 styles of handcrafts made from paper, cloth, stone, clay, copper, tin and other materials.
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