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Briefing profiles of Canton Fair
Briefing profiles of Canton Fair
China Import and Export Fair is also renowned as the Canton Fair. It is held biannually in Guangzhou every spring and autumn, with a history of 53 years since 1957. The Fair is a comprehensive one with the longest history, the highest level, the largest scale, the most complete in exhibit variety, the broadest distribution of overseas buyers and the greatest business turnover in China.
48 Trading Delegations, being composed of more than twenty thousand of China's best foreign trade corporations (enterprises) with good credibility and sound financial capabilities, take part in the Fair, including foreign trade companies, factories, scientific research institutions, foreign invested enterprises, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, private enterprises, etc.
Beside traditional way of negotiating against samples, the Fair holds Canton Fair Online. The Fair leans to export trade, though import business is also done here. Various types of business activities such as economic and technical cooperations and exchanges, commodity inspection, insurance, transportation, advertising, consultation, etc, are also carried out in flexible ways. Business people from all over the world are gathering in Guangzhou, exchanging business information and developing friendship.
China Import and Export Fair
Time of Initiation: | the spring of April, 1957 |
Interval: | two sessions a year |
Fair Session: |
The 107th Session of China Import and Export Fair Phase 1: April 15-19, 2010 Phase 2: April 23-27, 2010 Phase 3: May 1- 5, 2010 |
Duration: |
5 days each phase |
Venue: | China Import and Export Fair Complex |
Exhibition Space: | 1,125,000 M2 (106th Session) |
Number of Booths: | 55,927 standard booths (106th Session) |
Business Turnover | 30,470 Million USD (106th Session National Pavilion) |
Number of Overseas Buyers: | 188,170 (106th Session) |
Number of Exhibitors: |
National Pavilion:21,934 exhibitors (106th Session) International Pavilion:386 exhibitors (106th Session) |