The China Mining Congress and Expo 2011, which is co-hosted by China Ministry of Land & Resources and Tianjin Municipal Government, will be held November 6-8 in the Meijiang Convention Center, Tianjin, China. Last year, the event attracted more than 5,000 delegates from 60 countries and featured over 600 booths. As a significant change, 2011 sees the event exhibition area expanded to three connected halls, designed to give a clearer division of exhibitor types including: China Land & Resources Government Area; Mining Country Area; General Mining Area and CHINA MINING Equipment Show. The China Mining Equipment Show will be open to the public.

The mining country exhibition area will be in the N5 main exhibition hall. There will be Canadian, Australian and other country pavilions. For the Canadian pavilion, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Québec, Newfoundland and NRCan have booked booths; and from Australia, Geoscience Australia has also booked a large space at a special construction area. Meanwhile, In the China Mining Equipment Show Atlas Copco, Sandvik, Boart Longyear and other world-leading mining equipment companies have all booked spaces. See the floor plan at http://www.chinamining.org/en/floor_plan.aspx

In sponsorship, CHINALCO, China Minmetals and ZRHL Group have all confirmed that they are upping their commitment to become Diamond sponsors. The Bank of China, Datong Coal, China Gold Corp and Zijin Mining will keep their platinum sponsor identity, while Eldorado will be the gold sponsor once again. To satisfy more than 6,000 delegates from 60 countries and regions worldwide, the event provides a large mineral exploration and mining trading platform, covering the whole value chain including geological survey, exploration development, mining rights trading, mining investment and financing, smelting and processing, mining techniques and equipment and mining services.