The 136th session of the China Import and Export Fair, popularly known as the Canton Fair, kicked off on Tuesday in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province in south China, with over 30,000 enterprises from both home and abroad showcasing some 1.15 million new products.
Featuring a digital and green future of global trade, this year's Canton Fair has taken every effort to improve the quality of the exhibition, with a number of new products, new technologies and new forms of business to be highlighted.
The fair will witness nearly 4,600 companies from home and abroad holding their exhibitions for the first time. More than 8,000 leading Chinese startups and major players in the domestic high-tech and manufacturing sectors are attending the event, up over 40 percent year on year.
"The number of digital intelligent products has soared by more than three times over the previous session, and that of green and low-carbon products has increased by 130 percent over the last edition. Through the Canton Fair, we can see that Chinese products and Chinese brands have stepped onto a new stage of high-quality development," said Song Wencan, deputy director of the Secretariat of the Canton Fair.
The fair will be held in three phases between Oct. 15 and Nov. 4 and and includes 55 exhibition areas covering 1.55 million square meters.
A new energy enterprise from Jiangsu Province in east China made debut at the exhibition, providing a new solution to solve the water and electricity problems on an island by adopting wind and solar energy systems.
"This technology has been fully demonstrated in eight countries such as the Maldives, Brazil and Oman. And we also hope to promote our services and our technology to the world through the Canton Fair," said Zhu Jiaqi, an exhibitor.
In addition, many mechanical equipment and automated production lines are being unveiled at the fair.
A Chengdu-based company is exhibiting its self-developed packaging production line to provide solutions for the whole process from hardware to software.
"If the factory uses our production line, it can help save at least half of the labor coast. Compared with the European and American equipment, our price is one third of theirs. We hope to promote the Chinese equipment to the world via the Canton Fair. And of course, we also hope to get more orders at the Canton Fair," said Zhu Shilin, another exhibitor.
The 136th Canton Fair continues to set up exhibition areas for imported products in three phases, attracting 730 companies from 49 countries and regions to participate.
Among those companies is a South Korean exhibitor, who has had a relationship with the Canton Fair for about two decades.
"We started off as a small booth for like 20 years ago, I think. But now our booth has grown. We have about four booths, I believe. We are at the center of the place. Canton fair was a very good opportunity for us to meet new clients around the world. It was for us and it always will be in the future, I believe," said Kim Sang-hyun, head of the Overseas Sales Department of Cuckoo Electronics Co., Ltd., a home appliance maker headquartered in Yangsan, South Korea.
136th Canton Fair gathers over 30,000 enterprises offline to showcase 1.15 mln new products
136th Canton Fair gathers over 30,000 enterprises offline to showcase 1.15 mln new products
