The total exhibition area of the 133rd Canton Fair increased from 1.18 million square meters to 1.5 million square meters, the number of booths increased from 60,000 to nearly 70,000, the number of offline exhibitors increased from 25,000 to 34,933, and more than 9,000 new exhibitors .This year’s Canton Fair is the largest in history, with both the exhibition area and the number of exhibitors hitting record highs.
Exhibition time
Phase 1:April 15th to 19th
Phase 2:April 23rd to 27th
Phase 3:May 1st to May 5th
Category
Phase1: Electronics & Household Electrical Appliances, Lighting Equipment, Vehicle Spare Parts, Machinery, Hardware & Tools, Building Materials, Chemical Products, Energy Resources
Phase2:Consumer Goods, Gifts, Home Decorations
Phase3:Textiles & Garments, Shoes, Office Supplies, Cases & Bags and Recreation Products, Medicines, Health Products & Medical Devices, Food
The China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, was founded in 1957. It is held in Guangzhou every spring and autumn. It has been successfully held for 132 sessions. It is currently the longest in history, the largest in scale, the most complete in product categories, and the largest number of buyers in China. It is a comprehensive international trade event with the widest distribution in countries and regions, the best transaction results and the best reputation. In recent years, the number of exhibitors at home and abroad has reached 26,000 in each offline exhibition of the Canton Fair, covering 16 major commodity categories, gathering high-quality suppliers from various industries, and attracting nearly 200,000 professional buyers from more than 200 countries to purchase at the fair . The 130th Canton Fair in 2021 will for the first time fully expand invitations for domestic buyers to participate in the fair, with a total of more than 600,000 buyers attending the fair. In terms of online exhibitions, the official website of the 132nd Canton Fair in 2022 will receive more than 38 million visits, and 510,000 overseas buyers will register enterprise-level information, with sources covering 229 countries and regions around the world.
The Canton Fair has been held since 1957, and it is the 133rd session this year. The Ministry of Commerce keeps advancing with the times, reforms and innovates, and has also made a series of optimizations for the upcoming 133rd Canton Fair, presenting five new highlights.
First, enable the new pavilion. With the strong support of Guangzhou City, a new exhibition hall of 100,000 square meters was built in addition to the original venue of the Canton Fair. The third phase increased the exhibition area by 300,000 square meters, which is 25% more than the original one.
Second, add new themes. The application of new technologies has become a new commodity, which is traded domestically and goes international, becoming the object of transnational transactions. It is particularly obvious that the international trade of products such as new energy vehicles and intelligent manufacturing is developing rapidly, and the international trade of products needed by the elderly, infants and young children is also growing.
Facing the new trend of international trade and the new market demand, this Canton Fair has added industrial automation and intelligent manufacturing, new energy and intelligent connected vehicles, smart life, maternity and infant products, “silver economy”, testing and protective equipment, etc. The new theme of the exhibition has never existed before.
Thirdly, new enterprises actively participate in the exhibition. Thanks to the expansion of the exhibition area, the normal operation of online exhibitions and the introduction of new exhibition themes, more than 9,000 new exhibitors participated in this year’s Canton Fair, involving home appliances, electronics, vehicles, machinery, consumer goods, medicine, healthcare, etc. . These newly added companies include more than 1,600 individual manufacturing champions, specialized and special new giants, national high-tech enterprises, and national enterprise technology centers.
Fourth, the debut of new products. According to preliminary statistics, there are more than 300 new product launch events held online and offline, involving industrial manufacturing, electronic home appliances, building materials and home decoration, hardware tools, home consumption, fashion life, health and leisure, etc. There are more than 3 million exhibits on the online platform, including 800,000 new products marked by enterprises, 500,000 green and low-carbon products, and 130,000 smart products.
Fifth, normalize the operation of the online platform. The online exhibition of the Canton Fair is aligned with the well-known cross-border e-commerce platform operation model, and the online platform has optimized 141 functions. To mobilize the enthusiasm of the Import and Export Chamber of Commerce and various localities, more than 40 series of activities such as “Bridge of Trade”, double cycle promotion, and special procurement meetings for imported goods will be held. The online Canton Fair should never end.
