Canton Fair: Traditional Market Recovery Is Weak, And Emerging Market Demand Is Weak.

< p > when the 115th Canton Fair came to a close, the turnover figures confirmed the concerns of the organizers that China's exports continued to face economic headwinds.

Canton Fair is China's largest foreign trade exhibition.

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< p > the turnover of this Canton Fair was 31 billion US dollars, 13% less than that of last spring Canton Fair, and the number of purchasers dropped from 20.2766 to 18.8119.

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Liu Jianjun, spokesman for Canton Fair, said: "this shows that the traditional market recovery is weak and the demand for emerging markets is weak". P

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< p > organizers have warned that Chinese exports are facing more intense competition from other countries, especially when domestic wage levels are rising rapidly.

But in Guangzhou, Southern China, purchasers say the Guangzhou Trade Fair faces another pressure: electricity providers.

The Canton Fair has been held two times a year since 1957. It is a barometer of China's foreign trade.

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< p > "before, because there is no Internet, customers must come to the Canton Fair, but nowadays (on the Internet) it is easy to get information, so there is no need to come."

Lina Shang, who participated in the 15 year Canton Fair, said, "fewer customers and more suppliers, so competition is fierce."

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< p > she runs a sporting goods trader named TSS, which began to use Alibaba (Alibaba) several years ago, and manufacturers of goods for purchasers in Canton Fair.

Over the past 5 years, TSS's share of Internet sales has increased from zero to 10%.

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During the exhibition P, Liu Jianjun said that the rise of e-commerce in China constituted a "severe challenge" to the foreign trade exhibition.

The rise of the electricity supplier will be confirmed in the next few days, because the Alibaba, the world's largest electricity supplier, is expected to submit the IPO prospectus.

The Canton Fair even created its own e-commerce platform E-Cantonfair to meet this challenge.

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Jason Yuan, Obo (Oubohk) booth, said that his company created a home page on Alibaba because Alibaba is "very popular in the field of business to business (B2B)" P.

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P, Kevin Lee of AFC, a cowboy clothing factory in Xintang, Dongguan, said that his company recently launched a "mass marketing" on Alibaba.

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< p > although many manufacturers say they are using China's e-commerce platform such as Alibaba and Global Sources, some other manufacturers, such as Baleaf, a ski wear manufacturer, have begun to use Amazon's (Amazon), eBay and other foreign e-commerce platforms to find buyers.

Eason Tsang of Baleaf said, "there are fewer purchasers, but official data never show this."

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< p > Zhou Bin, Professor of Shanghai University of International Business andEconomics, said that the electricity supplier is an efficient platform for standardized appliances such as household appliances, but the electricity supplier is not so practical for a target= "_blank" href= "Shanghai", "textile" and so on.

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< p > some buyers said that it is sometimes difficult to determine whether the Chinese companies that advertise on the Internet are formal.

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Hu Ming, P Honren, says its company has been using Alibaba and global resources for half a year, but has not found any business on those two platforms.

"It's hard to build trust on the Internet."

Hongrun supplied Carrefour, WAL-MART and IKEA (Ikea) with down quilts.

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