Persian handmade carpet market is thriving and target markets including Chinese market have been identified for the supply of exquisite Iranian artisan.
"Iran's carpet export overseas has been targeted this year to reach a billion dollar and China is a major target market," Alikhani, the Head of INCC said.
Thirteen carpet producing companies from IRI opened pavilions at Shanghai World Expo to compete with one thousand and one hundred carpet producing companies from forty countries and arrange more customers for Persian handmade carpet.
Chinese customers interested in Iranian carpet visited our booth.
Shanghai World Expo held in seventy seven thousand m2 area had a total of fifty thousand visitors.
Germany, China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Belgium were the countries that had a booth at the World Expo carpet.