'97 Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival, an arena for designers and traders worldwide to compete and demonstrate their creative works will surely be an extra shining beam to glitter Shanghai in the golden autumn.

I sincerely expect the vivid performances of the fashion gala will boost the regional economic cooperation, expand the hi-tech exchanges home and abroad to make greater contributions to city's economic progress and to rejuvenate the city's fashion industry in the months and years ahead.

Warmly congratulate the great success of '97 Shanghai International Fashion Festival.

Xu Kuangdi
September,1997