Top Chinese auction centre wants more Thai orchids
Dong Wenyi, executive manager of Kunming International Flower Auction Trading Centre (KIFA), which has been in business for about 14 years, said it auctioned a variety of flowers from Thailand including orchids but the volume was still small.
"I wish to say that we would like to welcome more flowers from Thailand, especially orchids. It is because our customers have been interested in this kind of flower," he told The Nation.
He was speaking at a briefing for a group of Southeast and South Asian journalists invited to Kunming, China, by Yunnan Daily Press Group recently.
He said his auction centre was also interested in having chrysanthemums from Malaysia available for his customers.
The centre, a subsidiary of Yunnan Jinyuan Flower Industry Company, is the largest flower-auction market in China, second in Asia only to Tokyo's Ota Market, and fourth in the world.
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