The 124th Canton Fair opened today!
The Canton Fair
has always been regarded as the "barometer" and "wind vane" of China's
foreign trade. Since its founding in 1957, especially since the reform
and opening up 40 years ago, the Canton Fair has closely focused on the
overall reform and opening up of the country and the development
strategy of foreign trade and economic cooperation, and has continuously
reformed and innovated in various historical periods. From
content, form to function, a series of profound changes have taken
place, for Chinese enterprises, Chinese products, Chinese brands to go
global, to expand exports and promote imports, to promote China to
become a major economic and trade country, to promote the building of an
economic and trade power and an open world economy. Development has made a positive contribution.
The overall pattern and
scale of the 124th Canton Fair remained basically stable, and the scale
of the exhibition remained basically stable. It will
continue to be held in three phases. The total exhibition area is 1.185
million square meters, the total number of booths is 60,645, and there
are 25,583 domestic and foreign exhibitors. The
first phase will be held from October 15th to 19th. It will mainly
display electronics and home appliances, lighting, vehicles and
accessories, machinery, hardware tools, building materials, chemicals
and energy products. The second phase will be held from October 23 to 27, featuring daily consumer goods, gifts and home decorations. The
third phase will be held from October 31st to November 4th. It will
mainly display textiles and garments, shoes, office bags and leisure
products, medicine and medical care, and food products.
Improve the quality of exhibitors
The Canton Fair
will take the opportunity of brand booth evaluation and optimization of
the structure of the exhibition area to carry out the evaluation of the
brand booth of the Canton Fair. A total of 2,300
brand enterprises have been selected. Among them, there are a number of
old enterprises with stable development and strong strength, and they
have absorbed a lot of [fresh blood" and enhanced the demonstration role
of brand enterprises. Comprehensively enhance the quality of exhibits in the new theme exhibition area. New
enterprises, new energy, pet supplies and outdoor spa facilities
accounted for 19.15% of new businesses, and the company's structure is
more optimized. Support local special industry exhibitors. In
the third phase, the central channel of the A district gathered seven
major textile and garment industry clusters to participate, forming a
pattern of [local characteristic industrial clusters". Optimize the structure of the exhibition area in all aspects. Expand
the exhibition areas of home appliances, kitchens, homes, etc., adjust
the location of pet supplies, watches and glasses exhibition area; set
up a multi-functional exhibition site activity area in the third phase
7.1, and enhance the effect of the exhibition by the interaction of
exhibitions and events; In the special area
setting, there are 152 special zones in 41 exhibition areas, and the
proportion of exhibition areas in the exhibition area is 82%.
Improve the level of exhibitions and exhibitions
The
current Canton Fair actively utilizes two markets and two resources at
home and abroad to enhance the level of exhibitions and exhibitions. Among
the overseas exhibitors, 60% of the countries and regions along the
[Belt and Road" attracted 7 national pavilions and 3 regional pavilions. Expand the global strategic cooperation network. We
will comprehensively strengthen the recruitment of countries and
regions along the route, deepen cooperation with the local government
trade promotion departments and industrial and commercial organizations,
and carry out special promotion together with well-known industrial and
commercial organizations along the route of Turkey, Thailand, India and
other countries. Attracting quality resources overseas. The
first phase focuses on the introduction of industrial products with
high-tech and high-end brands. The third phase focuses on the
introduction of consumer products with regional characteristics,
complementary advantages with domestic products, and strong demand in
the import market. Carefully cultivate the theme of the exhibition. Some
overseas enterprises in electronics, home appliances, fabrics and home
textiles will be arranged adjacent to the same exhibitors in China, and
will be exhibited on the same platform to achieve complementary
advantages and common development of domestic and foreign products. In
the third phase, baby products will be set up and internationalized. Great health area. Improve the effectiveness of trade matching. A number of trade docking events will be held to provide "one-stop" matching services.
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