The 135th Canton Fair was successfully held

The 135th Canton Fair ended successfully in Guangzhou on May 5, and the online platform continued to operate normally. Zhou Shanqing, director of the Canton Fair Press Center and deputy director of China Foreign Trade Center, introduced the overall operation of the Canton Fair to Chinese and foreign media.

The CPC Central Committee and The State Council attach great importance to the Canton Fair.   Create a "never ending" Canton Fair, "leading the market" Canton Fair, promote the Canton Fair to be better and better, so that the Canton Fair this "golden sign" constantly radiates the style of the new era.

Under the kind care of the Party Central Committee and The State Council, and through the joint efforts of relevant ministries, local commercial authorities, overseas agencies and all participants, the Canton Fair further innovated mechanisms, enriched formats and expanded functions, and was a successful, wonderful and unforgettable event, making positive contributions to promoting the steady improvement of foreign trade quality, promoting high-level opening up, and serving the construction of a new development pattern.

• The number of overseas buyers at the meeting reached a record high. As of May 4 (the same below), a total of 246,000 overseas buyers from 215 countries and regions participated offline, an increase of 24.5% over the previous session, setting a new record. Among them, 160,000 buyers from countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, an increase of 25.1 percent; There were 61,000 buyers from RCEP member states, an increase of 25.5%; 52,000 buyers from BRICS countries, an increase of 27.6 percent; 50,000 buyers from Europe and the United States, an increase of 10.7%. A total of 119 business organizations, including the Sino-US General Chamber of Commerce, the 48 Group Club of the United Kingdom, the Canada-China Business Council, the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce of Turkey, the China General Chamber of Commerce of Malaysia, and the Victoria Construction Industry Association of Australia, participated in the conference. The United States Wal-Mart, France Auchan, Britain Tesco, Germany Metro, Sweden Ikea, Mexico Kopel, Japan like bird and other 226 multinational head enterprises organized buyers to attend the meeting. Overseas buyers spoke highly of the Canton Fair, believing that China has the best supply chain and the Canton Fair is the best platform for one-stop procurement.
  

• Export transactions showed a recovery growth trend. 

      As of May 4, the current Canton Fair offline export turnover of 24.7 billion US dollars, an increase of 10.7% over the previous session. Traders from emerging markets made positive transactions, with US $13.86 billion in transactions with countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, an increase of 13% over the previous session. European and American traditional market per capita price is high. Online platform transactions have become more active, with export transactions of 3.03 billion US dollars, an increase of 33.1% over the previous session. Exhibitors said that the popularity of buyers brought orders growth, in addition to the on-site signing of orders, buyers to explore the factory, see production capacity and other follow-up appointments continue, the future is expected to reach more cooperation.

• New quality productive forces stimulate new driving forces for foreign trade. The exhibitors of this year's Canton Fair displayed more than 1 million new products on site, and held 334 new products first exhibition first show activities. Enterprises have uploaded more than 2.54 million exhibits on the online platform, including 660,000 new products, 100,000 smart products, 400,000 green and low-carbon products, and 210,000 products with independent intellectual property rights. At the Canton Fair, new products, new technologies, new materials, new processes and new ideas emerged in an endless stream, and more high-end, intelligent, green and low-carbon products reflecting the development of new quality productivity emerged, which were warmly welcomed and favored by the international market, demonstrating the hard power of "China's intelligent manufacturing" and injecting new vitality into the development of foreign trade.
  

• Import exhibition for overseas enterprises to expand new space. 

      A total of 680 enterprises from 50 countries and regions participated in the import exhibition of the Canton Fair, of which 64% were participating in countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road". Many internationally renowned enterprises concentrated on displaying intelligent manufacturing and high-quality household consumer products at the Canton Fair, attracting global buyers to negotiate cooperation. The important exhibition group returned with success. South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and other exhibitors signed a number of orders with Chinese enterprises on site. Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, India and other pavilions plan to continue to organize delegations to participate in the next year, and some pavilions are considering expanding the scope of themes. Exhibitors of the import fair said that the Canton Fair provides a valuable platform for enterprises from all over the world to share opportunities in China and explore the global market, and they can feel innovation and vitality every time they come to the Canton Fair.

• The online platform runs smoothly. 

408,000 overseas buyers participated in the Canton Fair online, from 229 countries and regions around the world. The store visits of exhibitors totaled 3.412 million times, of which the store visits of export exhibitors totaled 3.376 million times, and the store visits of import exhibitors totaled 36,000 times. The exhibitors showed 1291 times in total, with a total of 17,200 visitors. The online platform of the Canton Fair has increased digital technologies such as wired display, VR factory viewing, 3D photography and intelligent drainage, and the number of buyers who have received feedback from enterprises has increased significantly.

• The comprehensive function continues to show. 

This year's Canton Fair strives to build a multi-functional comprehensive platform integrating trade docking, information exchange, design innovation and trade services. Held 264 "Bridge of Trade" Canton Fair global promotion and procurement docking series activities, of which 249 supply and procurement docking series activities attracted 420 buyers and 1420 suppliers "one-to-one" docking negotiations, the intended purchase amount of more than 340 million US dollars. To establish a "9+2" urban import and export economic and trade activity zone in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to provide economic and trade cooperation and exchange services for participating enterprises in the Greater Bay Area. 12 themed industry events were held, covering topics such as new quality productivity and high-quality development of the industry, enabling high-quality going to sea through new channels and new models, new opportunities for global market strategy, and intellectual property protection. Canton Fair Product Design and Trade Promotion Center (PDC) a total of 103 design companies from 8 countries and regions participated in the design docking, an increase of 13% over the previous session. The trade service area introduced 230 enterprises to participate in the exhibition, providing online and offline services such as finance and insurance, logistics warehousing, testing and certification. For the first time, cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouse exhibition areas were set up, and 11 provinces organized 5 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas and 150 cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouse enterprises to participate in the exhibition, creating new opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises to "go to sea" through the development of new trade formats.

• The protection of intellectual property rights continued to improve. 

This year, the Canton Fair continued to do a high standard of intellectual property protection and trade dispute settlement work, online and offline intellectual property complaints involving a total of 389 complainants, and finally found 179 enterprises suspected of infringement; Accepted and mediated 28 trade disputes, and reached settlement in 20 cases. The Canton Fair's efficient protection of intellectual property rights not only protects the innovation and development of enterprises, but also further enhances the confidence of the international community in conducting economic and trade exchanges and mutually beneficial cooperation with China.

• The exhibition service guarantee has been affirmed by all parties. 

This Canton Fair 100% implementation of green distribution exhibition, 100% use of green electricity, multi-channel to carry out green booth, venue safety, exhibition operation and other three national standards publicity work, to promote green development results landing transformation. This year's Canton Fair has issued 707,000 permits, 3.08 million visitors, 1.93 million people, 45,000 vehicles, 1.13 million meals, 74,000 booths, 1.04 million square meters of carpet, and about 60,000 directional signs. In the face of extreme weather such as continuous heavy rainfall and severe challenges brought by ultra-large scale people, logistics and traffic flow, under the strong leadership of the Ministry of Commerce and Guangdong Province, and with the strong support of Guangzhou City and other relevant parties, the Canton Fair quickly launched an emergency plan, strengthened the security force, extended the exhibition time, added rain prevention facilities, accelerated the speed of security checks into the museum, and launched a series of humanized services. All aspects of registration, transportation, catering, on-site service, and replacement exhibition have withstood the test, and the overall service is safe and orderly, which has been affirmed by the global exhibition merchants, saying that "I feel the warmth of home at the Canton Fair". This year's Canton Fair also held the British song and dance and other intangible cultural heritage performances and the musical "Canton and the World" exhibition, launched the Canton Fair food street for the first time, upgraded to create the Canton Fair music and food Festival, carefully designed for overseas buyers to enjoy the unique charm of Chinese culture, sighed "worth the trip".

After the closing of the offline exhibition of the Canton Fair, the online platform will continue to operate normally, and a series of precision trade docking and industry theme activities will be organized online, welcome the continued attention of the majority of exhibition merchants. The booth application for the 136th Canton Fair Export Exhibition has been launched on May 1, please apply for the booth through official channels in a timely manner.

This year's Canton Fair received high attention from Chinese and foreign media, with nearly 1,400 journalists from 166 media outlets attending the fair. The vast number of news media have carefully planned, adhered to the integrity and innovation, and carried out comprehensive publicity and reports on the Canton Fair, creating a good public opinion atmosphere for the successful holding of the Canton Fair. I would like to express my sincere thanks to the media organizations for their strong support. The 136th Canton Fair will be held in Guangzhou in three phases from October 15 to November 4 this year, and we look forward to meeting again.