Canton Fair Introduction |
| China Import and Export Fair, also called Canton Fair, Foire de Canton, La Feria de CANTÓN, Übersicht Kanton-Messe, Fiera di Canton, Feira de Canton, is held twice a year in Spring and Autumn since it was inaugurated in the Spring of 1957. It is China's largest trade fair of the highest level, of the most complete varieties and of the largest attendance and business turnover. Preserving its traditions, the Fair is a comprehensive and multi-functional event of international importance.
Forty-seven Trading Delegations, being composed of thousands
of China's best foreign trade corporations (enterprises)
with good credibility and sound financial capabilities, take
part in the Fair, including foreign trade companies,
factories, scientific research institutions, foreign
invested enterprises, wholly foreign-owned enterprises,
private enterprises, etc.
Officially approved by the Ministry of Commerce, PRC, the
101st Chinese Export Commodities Fair (CECF) held from Oct.
15 to 30, 2005, will be remarkably enlarged. The two
complexes, the CECF Complex at Pazhou and the CECF Complex
at Liuhua Road, will be put into full use simultaneously. In
accordance with the statistic standard of AUMA (Association
of the German Trade Fair Industry) the 101st CECF will stand
3 among the world's annual exhibitions.
Facing the new situations and tasks after China's WTO
accession, Canton Fair shall, on one hand, retain its
traditional advantages, and on the other hand, keep on
reforming and innovating to find out better operational
patterns of the Fair. It is believed that with service
functions being diversified and the range of services
expanded, the Canton Fair will be built into a dynamic trade
exposition and a great event of international significance.
According to Mr. Hu Chusheng, Secretary General of the CECF
and Director of China Foreign Trade Centre, the 101st CECF
will be conducted in two phases and at two venues
simultaneously. After a tentative operation at the 94th
session the CECF Complex at Pazhou will be put into full use
at the 95 th CECF. The coming CECF is going to cover a gross
exhibition space of 540,000 M2;, namely net exhibition space
of 243,000 M2; and has 27,000 international standard booths,
among which 7,500 booths in each phase in CECF Complex at
Pazhou and 6,000 in each phase in CECF Complex at Liuhua
Road.
The 101st CECF will exhibit 5 categories of products in 35
sections. The 5 categories are: Industrial products,
Textiles and Garments, Foodstuff and Medicines, Gifts and
Consumer Goods. |
| PHASE I April15-20
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CECF Complex at Pazhou |
Industrial Products
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1. Household Electrical Appliances
2. Electronics, IT Products
3. Lamps, Light Fixtures
4. Tools
5. Machinery and Equipment
6. Small Vehicles, Spare Parts
7. Hardware
8. Building Materials
9. Chemical Products, Mineral Products
10. Vehicles, Construction Machinery |
CECF Complex at Liuhua Road |
Textiles and Garments / Foodstuff
and Medicines |
1. Garments
2. Household Textiles
3. .Carpets & Tapestries
4. Textile Raw Materials & Fabrics
5. Artex
6. Furs, Leather, Down & related products
7. Foodstuff, Tea
8. Medicines, Health Products, Hospital Equipment |
| PHASE II April 25-30 |
CECF Complex at Pazhou |
Consumer Goods |
1. Articles of Daily Use
2. Native Produce, Animal By-Products
3. Furniture
4. Ceramics
5. Houseware, Kitchenware, Tableware
6. Footware, Headgear
7. Cases, Bags
8. Sporting Goods, Tour Equipments, Casual Goods
9. Stone and Iron Products (Outdoor Area) |
CECF Complex
at Liuhua Road |
Gifts |
1. Gifts
2. Decorations
3. Toys
4. Wickerwork Articles
5. Horticultural Products
6. Clocks, Watches, Optical Instruments
7. Office Supplies
8. Jewelry, Bone Carvings, Jade Carvings |
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Note:
The period of April 21 to 24 is for the exhibition
preparation of Phase II.
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While properly increasing the amount of exhibition
booths, the 101st CECF pays more attention to the
upgrade of exhibition quality. The number of booths for
famous-brand products and new products reach 2600, 80%
up than that of the 94th CECF. Famous-Brand Product
Showcases are set up for the first time to strengthen
the display of brand products and to add additional
effects on them. This measure strongly supports the
export strategy of "Win By Quality".
On the basis of enlarge exhibition scale, the 101st CECF
adjusts the arrangement of exhibit categories and
exhibition sections with more exhibition specialization
in order to attract more buyers. Among all exhibition
sections, 12 have become large ones with the number of
standard booths exceeding 1000. The Garments Section has
2186 booths and that is very near to the scale of a
medium-sized Chinese exhibition.
Owing to the remarkably improved exhibition space,
condition and facilities, the 101st CECF will see a
higher level of overall display. 30% of each exhibition
hall in the CECF Complex at Pazhou and the whole first
floor of Exhibition Hall 1-10 in the CECF Complex at Liu
Hua Road are Key Exhibition Areas, in which all the
booths will be specially decorated. These Areas will
cover 140,000 M2 and the scale of only this part will
surpass that of any other single Chinese exhibitions. At
the 101st session all exhibiting enterprises shall have
at least one booth or even more. Sharing one booth by
two or more enterprises has become a part of history.
Designed specially and the total area will amount to
140,000 M2 which surpasses any separate exhibition of
the largest scale at home now. Accordingly, every
exhibitor at the 101st CECF could enjoy more that one
booth and the phenomenon that two or more exhibitors
shared one booth will be a history.
Having crossed the threshold of new century, the CECF,
whose mission is to "Serve China's Foreign Trade", keeps
advancing with the times and has earned attention from
all over the world by its fast and deep innovations and
reforms. As Mr. Hu introduced, the CECF held the grand
celebration of the 90th CECF in 2001, took the
arrangement by phases at the 91st session in 2002 and
took a tentative operation of the CECF (Pazhou) Complex
in 2003. Now in 2005, the CECF will be enlarged once
again. Therefore, only judging from exhibition scale,
the CECF has seen continual bounds from 8,000 booths to
15,600, then to 18,400 and now to 27,000 at the 101st
CECF. These leaps are the outcome of the CECF's efforts
to adapt itself to the new situation, in which China has
been further involved into the world economy after
joined the WTO, maintained a good momentum of growth in
the national economy, especially in foreign trade. The
number of all domestic enterprises that have foreign
trade license amounted to nearly 110,000 by the end of
2003 while in 2002 there were 60,000. According to
China's commitment to the WTO, the limitation on foreign
trade license will be lifted at a faster speed in the
future and the majority of enterprises, which engage in
export, will be increased in number and will be more
diversified in structure. This trend also answers why
the CECF has kept expansion over the past few years but
still fail to meet the great demands of foreign trade
enterprises which are growing even faster and their
calls for international market. In the meanwhile, more
and more buyers are expecting the CECF continues to put
its advantage of "One-Stop Sourcing" into play while
making its exhibition more specialized, enabling the
buyers from over 200 countries and regions to realize
their wish for "A tour at the Fair saves a tour around
China". To sum up, the moderate expansion of the 101st
CECF makes it possible to meet the needs of both
exhibitors and buyers, moreover, lays a solid foundation
for "the China's No. 1 Fair" to reinforce its place, to
enhance its international influence and to build a much
larger and stronger CECF.
Mr. Hu Chusheng also added, the Ministry of Commerce of
PRC and the Government of Guangdong Province, which host
the CECF, attach great importance to the 101st CECF.
They have made intensive dispositions and strict
requirements on exhibition organization and visitors
invitation to ensure the success of the 101st session.
For over 47 years, the Government of Guangdong Province,
Guangzhou Municipality and relative departments have
spared no efforts in giving consistent and strong
supports to and showing generous solicitude for the
development of the CECF, from the construction of the
new fair complex at Pazhou to its tentative operation.
With a larger scale, the number of exhibitors of the
101st Session will exceed 80,000. If everything goes
normally, the number of attendants both from home and
abroad is estimated to be over 300,000, which will bring
about considerable economic and social benefits to
Guangzhou city and its surrounding areas. He believed
that with the full-scaled operation of the new complex
and the remarkable expansion of the CECF, the people of
Guangdong Province and Guangzhou Municipality will make
greater contribution to the development of the CECF. |
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