It's the 2010 Beijing Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Exhibition, a multi-day event for companies to show off their latest environmentally-friendly products. It's also the most recent in a series of Green events scheduled to take place in China.
On the floor, the two biggest brands in town are Philips and Panasonic, but even local Chinese companies are making a showing. And all of them are jumping on the bandwagon that they see as the next big industry of the 21st century.
In this section, dedicated to light bulbs, the companies push for longer and longer lifetimes, as well as higher and higher prices.
Ties between America's and China's economies are already under pressure, following the tire import duties announced last September. The additional preliminary duties on Chinese wire decking have further inflamed tensions.
Wire decking reinforced with structural supports is designed for industrial and other commercial storage rack systems.
The U.S. Commerce Department says that from 2006 to 2008, wire decking imports from China increased nearly 50 percent, topping more than 300 million dollars in 2008.