The 129th Canton Fair will be held online from April 15th to 24th. Up to now, exhibitors have uploaded nearly 2.63 million exhibits.
In an interview on the 2nd, China Foreign Trade Center Director Chu Shijia said that the preparations for the current Canton Fair are progressing smoothly. The total number of booths is about 60,000, and there are about 25,000 exhibitors at home and abroad. It is expected to attract more than 220 countries and regions around the world. Of buyers to visit the exhibition.
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online exhibition will continue to stabilize foreign trade and foreign capital
This is the third time "Dengyun" of the Canton Fair. In the previous two sessions of the “Cloud-Guangdong Trade Fair”, many foreign trade companies said that “touching the net” brought them more merchants than offline. Chu Shijia, director of the China Foreign Trade Center , said that continuing to hold the Canton Fair online during the special period will help China's foreign trade companies to better grab orders and expand markets, which will help stabilize foreign trade and foreign capital, and will also help the global industrial chain supply chain. Stability has injected impetus into the recovery of the world economy.
This year's Canton Fair will set up 50 exhibition areas according to 16 categories of commodities such as electronic appliances, machinery, building materials, daily consumer goods, home decorations, textiles and clothing, and a special "village revitalization" area to help enterprises from poverty-stricken areas open up international markets. This zone will be open to applications for more companies, with no quantitative restrictions and no threshold conditions, and will continue to be exempt from related companies' participation fees.
According to reports, since the 122nd session of the Canton Fair, a total of 8,105 free booths have been provided to 6,084 enterprises in poverty-stricken areas, and booth fees have been reduced or exempted by 86.69 million yuan, driving export turnover to more than US$1.7 billion.
Established in the spring of 1957, the Canton Fair is a comprehensive international trade exhibition with the longest history, the largest scale, the most comprehensive product categories, and the largest number of merchants in China. It is called "China's No. 1 Exhibition" and is also regarded as the "China's foreign trade exhibition". "Barometer" and "weather vane".
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"Dengyun" three times to create a window and sign of opening to the outside world
In an interview with the media, Chu Shijia said that the Canton Fair has been held for more than 60 years and has never stopped after ups and downs. The success of each Canton Fair fully demonstrates the most significant advantage of insisting on the party's centralized and unified leadership, the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. This year is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and also the beginning of the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. The Canton Fair will "climb the clouds" three times, which is of great significance.
There are three aspects. First, it can effectively avoid the risk of epidemic import, which is conducive to consolidating China's hard-won epidemic prevention and control results, and maintaining the stable recovery of the domestic economy.
The second is to make full use of the accumulated online exhibition experience, break through time and space constraints, continue to grab orders and expand the market for foreign trade enterprises in special periods, and ensure that enterprises achieve practical results at the exhibition, which is conducive to smoothing the foreign trade industry chain supply chain and stabilizing foreign trade. Basic foreign capital.
The third is to help show and publicize the brilliant achievements of China's socialist economic construction and reform and opening up under the leadership of the party, and create a good atmosphere for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party.
Source: China Convention and Exhibition Comprehensive Report
