JINAN, May 17 (Xinhua) -- A garlic expo opened Friday in Jinxiang County, east China's Shandong Province.

The expo attracted more than 1,400 garlic dealers, experts and scholars on garlic, as well as people of e-commerce platforms engaged in garlic businesses.

The expo will feature a big exhibition, a high-end forum and a seminar, and it will allow garlic dealers to do business with each other at the event, according to the organizer.

Jinxiang is known as China's "hometown of garlic" thanks to its massive production of garlic. The county has about 46,667 hectares of garlic plantations and is home to more than 800 enterprises in the garlic business. Its garlic products are sold to more than 170 countries and regions, accounting for at least 70 percent of the country's total exports of garlic products.

The expo will conclude on Saturday.