On November 8, Yichang Garden Industry Association Inaugural Conference and the 1st Representative Conference was held in Yichang. City leaders including Xiong Wei, Tan Chunyu and Qu Peng attended it.

　　Xiong Wei, Member of the Municipal Standing Committee, Director of the United Front Work Department, CPC Yichang Municipal Committee, expressed his congratulations on the establishment of the association. He said that the set up of Yichang Garden Industry Association would effectively integrate the industrial resources, optimize the industrial structure and vigorously promote the good development of the garden industry. It is our hope that this association could perform its functions in real earnest, give full play of its role as a bridge and link, so as to become a platform through which the association and its enterprise members are enhanced, the industrial development is commonly sought and the cooperation and mutual benefits are promoted, that every member would be united and collaborative with entrepreneurship and dedication, making every effort to become a model, and that every Party Committee, Government and sector of the community could create advantageous conditions to fully support the development of the Association. （Reporter Li Gen, Correspondent Fan Dongyuan）