The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture Wednesday unveiled a series of plans to promote the sale of Chinese agricultural products both at home and abroad.

China plans to build more overseas sales platforms abroad to make domestic agricultural products available in the overseas market.

Vice-Minister of Agriculture Niu Dun told a press conference that an agricultural products sales-promotion mechanism has taken shape in China which includes various sales service systems.

According to Niu, besides the overseas sales platforms, the government will establish an on-line exhibition hall in the country's major agriculture web site with which to attract more than 6,000 agricultural products from about 4,000 domestic companies.

In addition, the ministry will make more advertisements to promote sales of domestic agricultural products, said Niu.

The ministry will organize more domestic and overseas agricultural exhibitions this year to that effect.

About 26 national and international agricultural exhibitions will be held in 2006, said Zhang Yuxiang, director of the market and economic information department of the ministry.

Zhang said that the ministry will also help organize about 34 local agricultural fairs and participate in 17 international agricultural fairs this year.

(Xinhua News Agency March 2, 2006)