The Opening Of The 113Rd Canton Fair Today Is Expected To Rise Again Compared With Last Year.

　　 The 113rd Canton Fair Today, the opening ceremony is at the Pau Chau Convention and Exhibition Centre in Guangzhou. Canton Fair spokesman Liu Jianjun said 14, it is expected that the current trade fair to the guest business and transaction volume is expected to stabilize and rebound.

The Canton Fair is known as "barometer" of China's foreign trade and economic cooperation. It was affected by the second wave of global financial crisis and the slow recovery of international economy. In October last year, the 112nd Canton Fair held a rare decline in buyers and turnover. Among them, the number of merchants who came to the meeting dropped from about 200 thousand to 188 thousand, a decrease of 10% compared with the previous one, and the turnover decreased by 9.3%.

What is the current situation in the Canton Fair? Liu Jianjun said that from the early stage of the exhibition, Hotel Canton, flights, and so on, the current number of merchants from the European Union may still be reduced, but the American merchants will remain stable, and the emerging markets, especially those from South America and Africa, are expected to increase. Turnover amount It is expected to rebound steadily, at least not fall. "

Liu Jianjun frankly said that although the international economic situation is better than last year, the overall world economy is still running at a low level. From the domestic perspective, with the rising cost of all kinds of elements, China's traditional competitive advantage is weakening, the pressure of enterprises is increasing, and the transfer speed of orders and industries to overseas is accelerating. Therefore, the challenges of foreign trade are still great. However, there are many signs of overall good trend at present. "The demand for this booth is very strong, and the booth satisfaction rate is only about 60%, and about 4 of the domestic enterprises are unable to enter the exhibition because of the tight booth."

According to the briefing, the Canton Fair will continue to set up import exhibition areas in the first and third periods, and will set up 900 exhibition areas. Booth A total of 562 enterprises from 38 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, and the number of exhibitors and exhibitors increased. Among them, the top 5 countries and regions are South Korea, China Taiwan, India, Malaysia and Turkey.

The Canton Fair held an opening reception last night.

Zhu Xiaodan and Li Jinzao attended the reception and delivered speeches.

On the evening of 14, the 113rd Canton Fair held an opening reception. Director of the Canton Fair, Zhu Xiaodan, governor of Guangdong Province, Vice Minister of Canton Fair and vice minister of Commerce Li Jinzao attended the reception and delivered speeches. Zhao Yufang, vice director of the Canton Fair, vice governor of Guangdong Province, Chen Jianhua, vice mayor of Canton Fair and mayor of Guangzhou, attended the reception. More than 500 guests from home and abroad were invited to the reception.

Zhu Xiaodan gave a warm welcome to the guests when he spoke. Zhu Xiaodan pointed out that the Guangdong provincial government will continue to support the reform and development of the Canton Fair, and strive to create an efficient, convenient, safe and harmonious rule of law and an international business environment.

Li Jinzao said in his speech that the Ministry of Commerce will continue to play the role of the window and platform of the Canton Fair and further promote the integration of China's economy and the world economy. To this end, from the current Canton Fair, we will organize a series of activities designed to promote trade, and encourage enterprises to increase their R & D and design innovation so as to accelerate the transformation of the development mode of foreign trade.

Take measures to create new competitive advantages for Chinese Enterprises

The first innovation is the Canton Fair, which is officially launched today. E-commerce platform 。 Relying on the millions of real name merchants and the unique resources of thousands of Chinese enterprises in the Canton Fair, the platform enables the active push of products and information between domestic enterprises and buyers, so as to create the 365 day "never ending Canton Fair". Liu Jianjun, spokesman for the Canton Fair, said at a news conference on 14 that the official e-commerce platform of Canton Fair represents the transformation, upgrading and strategic transformation of the Canton Fair. Unlike other electronic business platforms in the market, members of the Canton Fair's electronic commerce platform are free to join and adopt the real name system. The product information is not disclosed to the public. The exchange between merchants and enterprises in a real and relatively independent member space is more conducive to the development of trade partnership.

The second innovation is to launch the "Canton Fair export product design award". The aim of the event is to enhance the design and research level of exhibitors and promote the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade. Since 2013, it has been held once a year, judging from the innovation, aesthetics, quality, functionality, environmental protection and quantity of orders. The Spring Festival starts annually, and the results are announced during the autumn fair.

The third innovation is to actively promote purchasers through exhibitors. For the first time, the Canton Fair invited all exhibitors and exhibitors to invite purchasers' activities for the first time, and encouraged domestic exhibitors to recommend new overseas customers to join the procurement business list of the Canton Fair. The Canton Fair carried out a series of ratings and rankings for the recommended buyers. Liu Jianjun, spokesman for the Guangzhou Trade Fair, said that the incentive measures have made significant progress, and buyers have increased their applications for invitations. Exhibitors have an unprecedented enthusiasm for inviting investment, and the activities will continue for a long time from this beginning.

Correspondingly, the Canton Fair is importing for the first time. Exhibitor Under the nomination invitation channel, the focus of the promotion will be on domestic trade enterprises with good retail channels, attracting nearly 1700 domestic purchasers from chain supermarkets, department stores and retail enterprises to apply for the Canton Fair.

In addition, from the 113rd Canton Fair, an innovative static display channel will be set up, and a 430 square meter static publicity exhibition area will be set up on the North platform of the A area for the local governments to publicize their foreign trade transformation and upgrading demonstration bases, high and new technology development zones, new industrial parks or industrial bases.