Brief About the 110th Session of the Canton Fair
China Import and Export Fair, renowned as the “Canton Fair”, is an important
channel of China’s foreign trade and a key window of opening up, playing a key role in
promoting the development of China’s foreign trade and economic communication. It is
reputed as “China’s No.1 Fair”.
The Canton Fair is hosted by Ministry of Commerce of P. R. China and People’s
Government of Guangdong Province and organized by China Foreign Trade Centre in
Guangzhou, China in every spring and autumn. Since its establishment in 1957, the
Canton Fair has enjoyed the longest history, the largest scale, the biggest buyer
attendance, the broadest buyer distribution, the most complete exhibit variety, and the
best business turnover for 109 sessions. The 109th session of the Canton Fair, which just
concluded on May 5 2011, attracted 208,406 overseas buyers from 209 countries and
regions, with an increase of 3.89% over the 108th session. The business turnover achieved
at this session amounted to 36.86 billion USD, up by 5.8%.
Chinese exhibitors of the Canton Fair are credible and highly competitive. About
20,000 domestic enterprises participate in each session, which are selected from hundreds
of thousands of Chinese enterprises and representing the highest industry level.
The Canton Fair is a great trade event which is comprehensive and specialized. With
the advantage of Chinese manufacturing industry and oriented by international demand,
the Canton Fair shows over 150 thousand kind of Chinese and overseas products. And in
each session, new products account for over 40% of the total.
Chinese government makes great efforts on balancing the import and export.
Accordingly, the Canton Fair started to set up International Pavilion since the 101st
session in 2007 and invited overseas enterprises to participate. With a successful
operation of 9 sessions the International Pavilion has attracted more and more enterprises
from Europe and USA. In the 109th session, with 10 national and regional delegations
from Netherland, Turkey, India, Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong SAR,
Macao SAR and Taiwan Province, 534 enterprises from 53 countries and regions
participated in the International Pavilion, 33 more than that of the previous session.
Besides witnessing the development of China’s foreign trade, the Canton Fair also
witnesses the progress of China’s protection on IPR in exhibition. The Canton Fair has
always attached great importance to IPR protection, and it is the earliest exhibition that
implements measures to protect IPR in China. As early as the 85th session in 1999, it set
up a complaint reception center. So now it has a complete and adaptable IPR protection
system. During the 109th session, a seminar about the protection of IPR in exhibition
between China and Japan was organized by MOFCOM (Ministry of Commerce of the
People’s Republic of China) and METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of
Japan).
At present, the world economy has been turning better but the recovery process is
not balanced. There are still risks with increased uncertainty in world economic
development caused by Europe's sovereign debt crises, turbulent situation in some
Middle East and North African countries, and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Under such situation, the upcoming 109th session of the Canton Fair, as the weather glass
and vane of China’s foreign trade, will attract more attention from the world. It will be
held in China Import and Export Fair Complex from October 15 to November 5, 2011.
The fair will be arranged into 3 Phases, namely, Phase 1: October 15-19, Phase 2:
October 23-27, Phase 3: October 31- November 4. Intervals: October 20-22, October
28-30.
The exhibition scale and general arrangement of the 110th session of the Canton Fair
will remain the same level as that of the 109th session. The 110th session will
accommodate about 58,600 standard stands. The National Pavilion will have no changes
in the arrangement of exhibition sections, i.e. there will be 50 exhibition sections under
15 product categories. The International Pavilion will emphasize on the national and
regional delegations, enrichment of exhibits and enhancement of exhibition
specialization.
As the organizer of the Canton Fair, China Foreign Trade Centre shoulders the
responsibility of serving Chinese and overseas Enterprises and upholds the concept of
“Putting People First and Customer-Oriented”. Introducing service concept and system of
Specialization and Marketization, the Canton Fair fosters an experienced service team
and improves its exhibition service. It improves the value-added service to both buyers
and exhibitors, enhances the build-up of call center, fastens the facilities upgrading and
greening, rises up service level of catering, pushes forward the construction of ISO9001
quality management system and popularizes the usage of e-commerce and information
technology. In addition, the Canton Fair spares no efforts in establishing tailored business
and commercial services such as Overseas VIP Lounge. With improved software and
hardware that provide more facilitation to exhibitors and buyers, the Canton Fair
establishes a better platform for trade cooperation and communication.
In the 109th session ,the Canton Fair Product Design and Trade Promotion Center
(PDC) was newly set up. The PDC attracted 54 overseas designers and trend specialists
and 38 overseas design institutes from 10 countries and regions such as Netherland,
France and USA, and organized 21 activities including design display, design forum and
design match making according to different categories of products in different phases of
the Canton Fair. As statistics shows, 800 enterprises and over 2000 people participated in
match making and achieved more than 200 cooperation intention of design service. In the
110th session, the PDC will invite more high level design team form overseas, and will
continue to provide a more convenient and efficient platform for interaction and
cooperation between “World Design” and “Made in China”.
The 110th session of the Canton Fair will be held in this October with a series of
celebrations including opening ceremony, reception banquet and high-profile forum. We
cordially invite friends from world industrial and commercial communities to visit,
exhibit and source in the 110th session of the Canton Fair, and welcome the press to visit
and cover the 110th session of the Canton Fair.
China Foreign Trade Centre
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