An international ceramic fair opened Friday in the city of Jingdezhen, a world-famous "ceramics capital," in east China's Jiangxi Province. It has attracted nearly 1,000 firms and over 3,500 exhibitors from various countries and regions, including Italy, and the Netherlands. With a 1,700-year-old ceramic-making history, Jingdezhen is home to more than 30,000 people working in the ceramics industry. Porcelain is widely known for being "white as jade, thin as paper, with the sound of a bell and bright as a mirror."