The largest Canton Fair in history will open on April 15

Up to now, buyers from 226 countries and regions have signed up for the conference online and offline. "Xu Bing, spokesperson of the Canton Fair and deputy director of the China Foreign Trade Center, introduced that this Canton Fair is the largest in history. The exhibition area and the number of exhibitors have reached record highs. The total exhibition area has increased from 1.18 million square meters to 1.5 The number of booths increased from 60,000 to nearly 70,000. The number of offline exhibitors increased from 25,000 to 34,933. The number of new exhibitors exceeded 9,000, and the number of online exhibitors reached 39,281.

At the same time, this Canton Fair further expanded the scale of the import exhibition. For the first time, the import exhibition was set up in three exhibition periods, reaching 30,000 square meters, an increase of 50% compared with that before the epidemic. 508 companies from 40 countries and regions participated in 12 professional exhibition areas, of which 73% were exhibitors from countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”. There are 6 national and regional pavilions of Turkey, South Korea, Malaysia, India, Hong Kong of China, and Macao of China. For the first time, five national-level import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones including Guangzhou Nansha, Guangzhou Huangpu, Wenzhou Ouhai, Guangxi Beihai, and Inner Mongolia Qisumu were introduced, and the business environment and innovation achievements of the demonstration zones were introduced to promote the development of demonstration zones in various countries and regions. Deepen practical cooperation and jointly promote the liberalization and facilitation of international trade.

In this Canton Fair, the structure of exhibitors continued to be optimized, and manufacturing companies and private companies were the largest exhibitors, accounting for 50.57% and 90.1% respectively. The number of high-quality characteristic enterprises hit a record high. There are a total of about 5,700 leading enterprises in the industry and high-quality enterprises with titles such as "little giants" specializing in specialization, manufacturing individual champions, national high-tech enterprises, and national enterprise technology centers. The quality of exhibits has been further improved. Enterprises have uploaded more than 3 million exhibits online, including nearly 800,000 new products and nearly 500,000 green and low-carbon products.

In addition, this Canton Fair continued to improve the online platform. A total of 141 functions were optimized on the online platform, and the "Trade Assistant" was launched for the first time, integrating functions such as exhibition area query, demand release, supply and procurement management, business card exchange, and order management. Promote online and offline integration. Improve the appointment and negotiation function, exhibitors can make online appointments and offline negotiations. An offline exhibition and conference service portal has also been added to guide exhibitors to familiarize themselves with the offline participation process in advance. The online platform has also broken through the limitation of the exhibition period. Except for the functions of exhibitor connection and appointment negotiation, other functions are in normal operation throughout the year.

"This Canton Fair will actively serve the dual-carbon goals, and take multiple measures to implement green, low-carbon and sustainable exhibitions." Xu Bing introduced that this Canton Fair will exhibit 500,000 green and low-carbon products to help intelligent, green, low-carbon Carbonized made in China develops the international market. At the same time, improve the green exhibition arrangement, guide enterprises to use professional profiles, strengthen the examination and verification of booth drawings, strengthen the management of solid waste in dismantling, and consolidate the achievements of green development. Carry out the selection of green booths and encourage low-carbon booth arrangement.