BEIJING, May 17 -- The 2009 Anhui International Exhibition on Public Safety and Security Thursday open in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province.

    Some 300 companies from China and abroad displayed their products of alarming, monitoring systems, house security, personal protection, police equipment and fire-fighting.

    Soundbite: Qiao Shiming, company manager "The exhibition aims at protecting public security with high-tech facilities and creating a safe city. Our company specializes in producing wireless surveillance systems and road monitoring systems, with a comprehensive service line of production, research, manufacturing and sales."

    According to the organizers, the exhibition is aimed to promote public security and its related industry.

    In December 2008, an international exhibition on public safety and security opened in Beijing, one of the biggest and most influential such shows. More than 850 companies from China, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, attended the show, attracting some 150,000 visitors.

    Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hefei.

    (Source: XHTV)