The 10th annual Xiamen Stone Fair not only broke its own attendance record this March C it broke the six-figure ceiling for any international stone event.



The show, on March 6-9, drew 101,526 attendees, with an international count of 20,168 coming from 130 countries.

This years totals easily topped the 86,713 attendees in 2009; the event showed significant growth from the 70,981 count two years ago.

The event featured 1,300 exhibiting companies (up from 1,211 in 2009) from 45 countries in 95,000 m² of exhibition space.

The next Xiamen Stone Fair will take place on March 6-9, 2011, with an anticipated 1,370 exhibitors filling a 100,000 m² exhibition area. An additional 35,000 m² exhibition center, now under construction, will be put into use for the 2012 edition of the show.