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China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, is an important channel for China’s foreign trade and a window of China’s opening up. It plays a key role in advancing the development of China’s foreign trade and the economic and trade exchanges between China and the rest of the world. And it is renowned as “China’s No. 1 Fair”.
The Canton Fair is co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of PRC and the People’s Government of Guangdong Province and organized by China Foreign Trade Centre. It is held every spring and autumn in Guangzhou, China. Since its establishment in 1957, the Canton Fair has enjoyed the longest history, the largest scale, the biggest buyer attendance, the most diverse buyer origin, the most complete product variety, and the best business turnover in China for 134 sessions. The 134th Canton Fair attracted overseas buyers from 229 countries and regions, including 197,869 who attended onsite and 453,857 online.
The 135th Canton Fair is scheduled to be held on April 15th, which will be full of highlights. The first is continuous optimization of exhibition structure. Focused on “advanced manufacturing”, “quality home life” and “better life”, this session will be joined by suppliers of diverse and quality household items, and meet the sourcing demand for new consumption. Second is various premium companies gathered. Over 28,000 selected competitive and reputable exhibitors will participate in this session onsite and online. Among them, more than 4,000 exhibitors are national high-tech enterprises, manufacturing single champions and specialized and sophisticated small and medium enterprises. Third is large number of exhibits. Over 2.7 million products will be uploaded onto the Canton Fair online platform to offer abundant and high-quality choices for global buyers. Fourth is diverse supporting activities. Nearly 200 Trade Bridge matchmaking events, 8 “Discover Canton Fair with Bee & Honey” activities of different themes, 15 industry activities, over 300 product release activities will be hosted, demonstrating fantastic highlights and boundless opportunities. Fifth is improved convenience of attending the Canton Fair. The session will continue to provide pre-registration and badge application at alternative registration offices in advance. Overseas buyers can apply for badges at airports and designated hotels or scan the pre-registration code and get a badge application receipt in advance to attend the Canton Fair more conveniently.
The International Pavilion was inaugurated in the 101st session to promote balanced growth of import and export and to help international companies explore the Chinese and global markets. After 34 years of development, over 17,000 overseas enterprises from more than 100 countries and regions have participated in the International Pavilion as high-quality national and regional pavilions, including many world-renowned enterprises. For the 135th session, adhering to the concept of “openness, cooperation, integration and sharing”, the International Pavilion will boast a scale of 30,000 square meters, with 10,000 square meters in each phase. The product categories in each phase are basically the same as that of the National Pavilion.
Canton Fair Product Design and Trade Promotion Center (PDC), since its establishment in the 109th session, has served as a design service platform to bridge “Made in China” and “Designed by World” and to facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation between excellent designers from all over the world and quality Chinese companies. For this session, PDC will gather global design innovation resources. Through holding design display, forums, trend sharing conferences, match-making events and other activities, PDC will provide various forms of display and exchange platform for domestic and overseas design agencies, exhibitors and buyers.
The Canton Fair not only promotes the development of China’s foreign trade, but also witnesses China’s IPR protection, especially the progress of IPR protection in the exhibition industry. Since 1992, it has been working hard to protect intellectual property for 30 years. By formulating and implementing Complaints about and Settlement Provisions for Suspected Intellectual Property Infringement in the Canton Fair and Temporary Provision for IPR protection of Canton Fair Online Platform, a comprehensive chain of intellectual property protection before, during, and after the exhibition has been established. Moreover, an IPR dispute settlement mechanism has also been built, which is relatively complete and suits the Fair’s practical situation and online-offline integration. Therefore, the Canton Fair has raised the exhibitors’ awareness on IPR protection and demonstrated the Chinese government’s determination of respecting and protecting IPR. IPR protection at the Canton Fair has set the pattern for Chinese exhibitions; the just, professional and efficient dispute settlement has won the trust and recognition of Dyson, Nike, Travel Sentry Inc, Sanrio and etc.
The initial schedule of the physical Fair for the 135th session:
Phase 1: April 15-19, 2024;
Phase 2: April 23-27, 2024;
Phase 3: May 1-May 5, 2024;
The intervals: April 20-22 and April 28-30, 2024.
The physical exhibition duration will be notified further if there is any adjustment.
The online platform will be open for half a year: March 16-September 15, 2024.
Welcome to visit the official website of Canton Fair for more information: www.cantonfair.org.cn
