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Canton Fair
Launched in the spring of 1957, Chinese Export Commodities Fair, also referred to as Canton Fair is held twice a year in spring and autumn. It is the biggest trade fair in China, a fair organized on a grand scale, and of the biggest business return. Maintaining its tradition, the Fair is a complete and multi-purposeful event of global significance. Forty-six Trading Delegations, consisting of numerous of China's top foreign trade corporations or enterprises with excellent standing and reliable financial potential, participate in the Fair. The Fair is basically concerned with export trade, although import business is in addition dealt with in the Fair. In addition to these, different kinds of activities related to business for example economic as well as technical collaboration and relations, commodity assessment, insurance, transportation, advertising, consultation, etc. are furthermore conducted in flexible manners.
Humble beginning
- The Fair had a humble beginning with an exhibition area that totaled 18, 000 square meters, and the Trading Delegation added up to 13 only, and the types of commodities on exhibit totaling slightly in excess of 12, 000.
- Nearly one thousand two hundred and twenty one business people from 19 countries and regions of the world participated in the inaugural Fair that was devoid of much of the present day grandeur and pomp.
- The business turnover of the Fair was an inconsequential figure of US$ 17.54 million.
Present status
- At present, the Fair's exhibition area is as abundant as 160, 000 square meters, With 47 trading Delegations with above 4, 000 foreign trade enterprises participating in it.
- On exhibit are in excess of 100, 000 types of Chinese products for export.
- With more than 80,000 business individuals from more than 170 countries and regions of the whole world taking part, every session of the Canton Fair ends with export business of US$ 10 billion and above.
- At the current phase of evolution of history, the Canton Fair has by now progressed into a site of global commerce of world importance, complete and multi- purposeful.
- Of all the fairs organized in China, the Canton Fair is the principal in level, greatest in importance and unsurpassed in result.
The uniqueness of the Canton Fair lies in the fact that thousands of exhibitors on behalf of Chinese international trade companies and manufacturers enhance the scale of the Fair. The goods that are displayed by them are of superior quality, reasonable priced and are frequently specialties from the different parts in China.
The present Fair is held in a complex which has in excess of five thousand 3-by-3-square-meter booths, all in conformity with international standards. Presently, internet expertise is available at the fair on a big scale, for example the handling of appliances, the allocation of exhibition booths and information exchange and inquiries.
At the fair there are a total of thirty four exhibition halls.