Intelligent products and advanced automation equipment have come under the spotlight of the ongoing 136th session of the China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, which kicked off in south China's Guangzhou City on Tuesday.
Themed "Serving high-quality development, promoting high-level opening-up", this edition of the fair features more than 30,000 exhibitors and showcasing 1.15 million new products.
Nearly 60 percent of the exhibitors have used big data, artificial intelligence (AI), industrial Internet and other advanced technologies and tools to upgrade their industrial chains, according to a pre-fair survey.
As a result, their products have aroused the interest of many global buyers keen to explore technologies from China.
"Global buyers pay great attention to the current and future application of AI technologies in our products, while in previous editions of the fair, they cared less about these issues," said an exhibitor named Tao Shuanghua.
Another enterprise presented its latest firefighting robots, robotic cleaners and the cargo tracking system as well as equipment that can conduct vein, fingerprint, face, and iris recognitions.
"This is an explosion-proof firefighting robot, which has drawn much attention from our overseas partners at the fair. We hope to capitalize on this platform to introduce the excellent products and solutions of our company to the overseas market," said an exhibitor named Yang Zhonggui.
About 3,600 of the participating enterprises are engaged in businesses related to China's "new trio", namely,lithium batteries, photovoltaic products and electric vehicles, as well as digital technologies and intelligent manufacturing.
These enterprises have used newest technologies in upgrading their products, ranging from electronic products, home appliances to new energy vehicles and even a small rubber gasket ring.
"This small rubble ring features the application of many advanced technologies, which enables it to be resistant to ultra-low and ultra-high temperatures and the corrosion of special substances. The small ring is ubiquitous, not only widely used in our daily life, but in many important areas, such as automobiles, high-speed trains, aviation and aerospace, petroleum and the petrochemical area," said an exhibitor named Zhang Hongbin.
The fair's D-zone is the industrial automation and intelligent manufacturing exhibition area which was teemed with visitors on Wednesday, the second day of the event.
One exhibitor displayed an automatic stamping machine, specially designed for battery case production lines for electric vehicles. The machine can finish the stamping of 80 battery cases per minute with an error range of 0.05 millimeters.
The enterprise also brought a highly flexible robotic arm and an automatic feeder to the fair. By continuously exploring the overseas market, the company has expanded its products from the Southeast Asian market to the Middle East and Africa.
The D-zone includes over 4,500 exhibition booths where some 2,500 exhibitors are showcasing China's latest achievements in advanced manufacturing, such as numerical control machine tools and digital factories. The products they displayed reflect China's progress in the transformation and upgrading from "made in China" to "intelligent manufacturing in China", as well as the country's overall sci-tech strength.
Covering a total exhibition area of 1.55 million square meters, the fair will be held in three phases between Oct. 15 and Nov. 4, with the first phase lasting five days.
Intelligent products, automation equipment capture limelight at Canton Fair
