On April 15, the 133rd Canton Fair was officially launched offline, which is also the largest Canton Fair in history.
The reporter of “Daily Economic News” witnessed the lively scene on the first day of the Canton Fair. At 8 o’clock in the morning on the 15th, there were long queues at the entrances of the Canton Fair Complex, and domestic and foreign exhibitors lined up to enter the complex. Official statistics show that on the first day (April 15), the Canton Fair had 370,000 visitors throughout the day.
The Canton Fair is an important window for China’s opening up to the outside world and an important platform for China’s foreign trade. The 133rd Canton Fair will be held online and offline in three phases from April 15 to May 5. This year’s Canton Fair has fully resumed offline exhibitions, using a new venue with an area of 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting buyers from more than 200 countries and regions, and nearly 35,000 enterprises participating in offline exhibitions. A record high.
At the same time, this year’s Canton Fair added new exhibition areas and special areas such as industrial automation and intelligent manufacturing, new energy and intelligent networked vehicles, smart life, silver-haired economy, etc., and more than 300 new product launch events were held to fully demonstrate the development of technological innovation and advanced manufacturing. latest results.
It is reported that, as the largest session in history, the total exhibition area of this Canton Fair has increased from 1.18 million square meters to 1.5 million square meters, and the number of booths has increased from 60,000 to nearly 70,000. Offline exhibitors increased from 25,000 to 34,933, new exhibitors exceeded 9,000, and online exhibitors reached 39,281.
This year’s Canton Fair is the first time to set up an import exhibition in all three exhibition periods. According to the “People’s Daily” report, this year’s Canton Fair further expanded the scale of the import exhibition. For the first time, the import exhibition was set up in all three exhibition periods, reaching 30,000 square meters, an increase of 50% compared with that before the epidemic. 508 companies from 40 countries and regions participated in 12 professional exhibition areas, of which 73% were exhibitors from countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”. There are 6 national and regional pavilions. Introduce national-level import trade promotion and innovation demonstration zones such as Guangzhou Nansha, Guangzhou Huangpu, Wenzhou Ouhai, etc., publicize the business environment and innovation achievements of the demonstration zones, promote the deepening of practical cooperation between countries and regions and the demonstration zones, and jointly promote the liberalization and convenience of international trade change.
In addition, among the exhibitors of this Canton Fair, manufacturing enterprises and private enterprises are the largest exhibitors, accounting for 50.57% and 90.1% respectively. The number of high-quality characteristic enterprises hit a record high. There are a total of about 5,700 leading enterprises in the industry and high-quality enterprises with titles such as “little giants” specializing in specialization, manufacturing individual champions, national high-tech enterprises, and national enterprise technology centers. The quality of exhibits has been further improved. Enterprises have uploaded more than 3 million exhibits online, including nearly 800,000 new products and nearly 500,000 green and low-carbon products.
According to data released by the General Administration of Customs of China recently, in terms of US dollars, China’s exports in March this year increased by 14.8% year-on-year, ending four consecutive declines, and the year-on-year decline in imports narrowed sharply to 1.4%, showing signs of recovery in foreign trade.
Post time: Apr-17-2023
