On April 10, China CCTV News released "The 135th Canton Fair will open on April 15 with a record number of exhibitors."
The content is as follows:
The 135th Canton Fair will be held in three phases in Guangzhou from April 15 to May 5, and the online platform will operate on a regular basis throughout the year. The exhibition area of this Canton Fair is 1.55 million square meters, with a total of 74,000 booths. More than 29,000 companies participated in the exhibition, a record number. Among them, there are 28,600 export exhibition companies, more than 4,300 new exhibitors, 680 import exhibition companies, and their origins have expanded to 50 countries and regions. At present, all preparatory work is progressing smoothly.
Among the exhibitors at this Canton Fair, there are more than 5,500 national-level high-tech enterprises, individual champions in the manufacturing industry, and specialized and new small giant enterprises, an increase of 20% from the previous session. It is expected that there will be more than 1 million new products on display, more than 450,000 green products, and more than 250,000 independent intellectual property products, all of which will increase compared with the previous session. More than 4,000 exhibiting companies have won international innovation design awards. The R&D investment of more than 10,000 exhibiting companies accounted for more than 10% of total sales revenue.
This year's Canton Fair has nearly 3,600 exhibitors related to digital technology and intelligent manufacturing display themes. The exhibitors' products include more than 90,000 smart products such as brain-computer interface smart bionic hands, automatic navigation transportation equipment, and artificial intelligence translators. More than 50% of exhibitors actively apply digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data analysis to transform production operations. At the same time, the Canton Fair online platform will increase the use of digital technologies such as online display, VR factory viewing, 3D photography and intelligent traffic drainage. Since November last year, the number of visitors to the Canton Fair online platform has increased by 137% year-on-year.
In recent years, the proportion of intermediate goods and capital goods displayed at the Canton Fair has increased to 12%. In the machinery exhibition area where capital goods are concentrated, the size of the booth has increased by more than 50% in the past five years. Capital goods and intermediate goods are becoming more and more important in the Canton Fair. Through platforms such as the Canton Fair, China has provided the world with a large number of high-quality products with strong competitiveness and stable supply, helping countries, especially developing countries, to achieve industrialization. It has also enhanced the resilience and stability of our regional and global industrial and supply chains.
According to statistics, since the Canton Fair was founded, more than 9.3 million overseas merchants and 195 global partners have participated in the Canton Fair, which has effectively promoted trade exchanges and friendly exchanges between China and other countries and regions around the world. In order to facilitate overseas buyers to participate in the Canton Fair in China, the visa processing and issuance time of 90% of embassies and consulates abroad has been shortened to 4 working days. According to surveys, more than 80% of overseas buyers are satisfied with this improvement. At the same time, 94% of exhibitors said that they have opened up new international markets through the Canton Fair, and 93% of exhibitors have strengthened exchanges with international counterparts and grasped the development trends and trends of the international market.