THE 133rd CHINA IMPORT AND EXPORT FAIR

Exhibition date	2023-04-15 to 2023-05-05
Exhibition address	China Import and Export Complex
Sponsor	Ministry of Commerce of The People's Republic of China People's Government of Guangdong Pr
Undertaker	Chine Foreign Trade Centre

The China import and Export Commodities Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, was founded in the spring of 1957 and held in Guangzhou in the spring and autumn of each year. The Canton Fair, jointly hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the People's Government of Guangdong Province and hosted by the China Foreign Trade Center, is a comprehensive international trade event with the longest history, the largest scale, the most complete range of goods, the largest number of buyers and the widest source, the best transaction effect and the best reputation in China. It is known as the first exhibition in China, the barometer and weathervane of China's foreign trade.

The Canton Fair is a window, epitome and symbol of China's opening to the outside world, and an important platform for international trade cooperation. Since its establishment, the Canton Fair has been successfully held for 132 sessions and has established trade relations with 229 countries and regions around the world, with a total export turnover of about 1.5 trillion US dollars and a total of about 10 million overseas buyers attending the fair and online exhibitions, which has effectively promoted trade exchanges and friendly exchanges between China and other countries in the world.

Premier Li Keqiang attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech and toured the museum for research. He hoped that the Canton Fair would be better and better, boldly climb the new heights of reform and opening up, expand the new pattern of mutual benefit and win-win results, and create new achievements in sustainable development.

It is an important platform to connect the domestic and international double circulation, better serve the national strategy, serve the high-level opening up, serve the innovative development of foreign trade, and serve the construction of a new development pattern.

1、 Time background

（1）. Since January 8, 2023, China has entered a new period of opportunity with the full opening of its entry and the elimination of quarantine, which is also a relatively big opportunity and bonus for foreign trade enterprises.

（2）. In the face of the complex domestic and international economic situation, China's foreign trade as a whole is running smoothly, and the scale of foreign trade has reached a new record, which again confirms that China is still an indispensable part of the global industrial chain supply chain.

（3）. The fourth phase of the exhibition hall of the Canton Fair was launched, and the total building area of the exhibition hall increased to 1.68 million square meters, making it the largest exhibition complex in the world. Effectively alleviate the current situation of insufficient supply and provide more domestic and foreign enterprises with a stage to go global.

（4）. The meeting of the Standing Committee of the State Council mentioned the need to optimize platform services such as the Canton Fair. We will give full play to the important platform role of the Canton Fair in promoting all-round opening up, promoting high-quality development of international trade, and connecting the domestic and international double circulation, and inject new impetus into the world economic recovery.

2、 Exhibition time

The 133rd Canton Fair will be held from April 15 to May 5, 2023, and will be divided into offline exhibition and online exhibition. Among them, offline exhibition will be held in the Canton Fair exhibition hall in three phases according to different product themes, each of which will last for five days, and the exhibition period is arranged as follows:

Number of periods	Date	Product Categories
Phase I	4/15-4/19	Electronics and home appliances, lighting, vehicles and accessories, machinery, hardware tools, building materials, chemical products, energy
Renewal：4/20-4/22
Phase II	4/23-4/27	Daily consumer goods, gifts, home decorations
Renewal：4/28-4/30
Phase III	5/1-5/5	Textile clothing, shoes, office, luggage and leisure goods, medicine and medical care, food

online exhibition: the subject matter of online exhibition of import exhibition is planned to be fully opened to international enterprises according to the setting of export exhibition. The online platform service time is half a year (March 16 - September 15, 2023).

China Foreign Trade Center is a public institution directly under the Ministry of Commerce, which is mainly responsible for undertaking the China import and Export Commodities Fair (also known as the Canton Fair). With more than 60 years of professional exhibition experience, outstanding performance and professional services, China Foreign Trade Center has played a pivotal role in China's exhibition industry.

China Foreign Trade Center (CFTC) is set up under CFTC, and its main business is to host various large-scale professional exhibitions; Operate the Canton Fair exhibition hall; Through its subsidiaries and holding/participating companies, it operates exhibition engineering, hotels, catering, advertising, business travel, property management, import and export trade and other exhibition industry chain businesses.

[One of the largest modern exhibition centers in Asia]

The China import and Export Commodities Fair Exhibition Hall (hereinafter referred to as the Canton Fair Exhibition Hall) is one of the most advanced and fully functional modern exhibition halls in Asia. Since its full opening in 2008, the Canton Fair Exhibition Hall has become the birthplace of many domestic and foreign brand exhibitions and the preferred venue for large-scale professional exhibitions with its advanced software and hardware facilities and first-class comprehensive supporting services.

[Honors and titles]

❀ In 2019, the operating income of China Foreign Trade Center (Group) ranked fourth among the major exhibition institutions in the world

❀ The exhibition area of the Canton Fair exhibition hall operated by the company reached 7.524 million square meters (including the Canton Fair), ranking first in the world

❀ 2013-2016 Top 500 Chinese service enterprises

❀ 2013-2018 Top 500 Enterprises in Guangdong Province and Top 100 Service Industry in Guangdong Province

❀ LEED Gold Award for Operation and Maintenance of Existing Buildings

❀ 100 classic and high-quality projects for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China

❀ One hundred outstanding civil engineering projects in a hundred years

The exhibition complex integrates the comprehensive service functions of venues, conferences, hotels, catering, engineering construction, property, advertising, tourism, etc.

1、 Electronic appliances

Household appliances，consumer electronics and information products

2、 Building materials and home decoration

Building and decoration materials ，sanitary equipment

3、 Industrial manufacturing

Auto parts, electronic and electrical products, general machinery, small processing machinery and industrial parts, lighting products, large machinery and equipment, bicycles, power and electric equipment, new energy, engineering agricultural machinery (indoor), engineering agricultural machinery (outdoor), vehicles

4、 Hardware tools

Tools, hardware and chemical products

5、 Household consumption

Household appliances, kitchen utensils, gifts and gifts, household decorations, daily ceramics, furniture, glass handicrafts, holiday supplies, garden supplies, woven and rattan iron handicrafts, craft ceramics, personal care appliances, pet supplies, watch glasses, bathroom supplies, iron stone decorations and outdoor spa facilities

6、 Fashion life

Shoes, household textiles, men's and women's clothing, luggage, clothing accessories and accessories, textile materials and fabrics, sportswear and casual wear, Underwear, children's clothing, carpets and tapestries, fur, leather, down and products

7、 Healthy leisure

Toys, office stationery, sports and tourism leisure products, food, health care products and medical devices

8、 Trade services

The 131st China import and Export Commodities Fair (Canton Fair) has come to a successful conclusion. The relevant information is as follows:

Time: April 15-24, 2022

Venue: China import and Export Commodities Fair Exhibition Hall (No. 380, Yuejiang Middle Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou)

Sponsored by: Guangdong Provincial People's Government, Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China

Organizer: China Foreign Trade Center

Exhibition contents:

There are 16 categories, 50 exhibition areas and 3052100 exhibits.

Electronics and household appliances; Hardware tools; Machinery; Vehicles and accessories; Building materials; Lighting; Chemical products; Energy; Daily consumer goods; Gift; Home decoration category; Textile and clothing; Footwear; Office, luggage and leisure goods; Medicine and medical care; Food; International PavilionThe 108th National Fur Liquor Fair will be held again on April 12-14, 2023 in Chengdu Western China International Expo City and Chengdu Century City New International Convention and Exhibition Center, one city and two pavilions. This spring candy will be the largest spring candy in the history, with an exhibition scale of 265000 square meters. Welcome to book!

Carry out industrial layout around the Canton Fair, actively promote the development layout of leading industries to a greater extent to adapt to the Canton Fair, and strive to retain the advanced manufacturing industry, brand consumption, headquarters economy and other merchants in the Canton Fair in Haizhu under the condition of fully studying and judging the economic characteristics of the territory.

It is planned to formulate a series of development plans of "specialized and special new enterprise breeding action, high-quality development of unicorn enterprises", cultivate and expand regional leading industries, and build an industrial highland that echoes with Pazhou C District around the Canton Fair. It is planned to build an internal and external dual-circulation platform for the Canton Fair through regional development, improve a better business service software and hardware environment for the Canton Fair, and strive to consolidate and co-develop a new pattern of development.

4.  Booth Rates & Stand Configuration

Raw space and Standard booth are available in International Pavilion, and each exhibitor is equipped with an online showroom, enjoying the basic online exhibition service of International Pavilion. The booth price & stand configuration are listed as follows：

(1) Raw space

Raw space (minimum 36M2): 18,000 RMB per stand (9M2). Exhibitors shall self-design and set up the stand on the raw space  according to the rule of booth construction. Qualified contractors list will be provided for reference.

(2) Standard booth

Standard booth: 22,000 RMB per stand (9M2), which is built by the Organizer with exhibiting furniture, including wall panels, light box, fascia board, floor carpet, spotlights, socket, shelves, reception table, base cabinet, negotiation table, folding chairs.

5.  Supporting events

(1)  Business match-making events

A series of international trade promotion events will be held during the exhibition time. Exhibitors will be kindly invited to attend the business activities, which will improve the match-making efficiency between suppliers and buyers.

(2) Canton Fair selections launch A lot of leading enterprises will be gathered in Canton Fair selections launch   event to release their new products, technologies and services, and demonstrate innovative achievements.

(3)  Canton Fair Design Award

Canton Fair Design Award is set for selecting the cutting-edge products and push forward the high-quality development of international trade through presenting the products on the platform of Canton Fair, enhancing brand communication, and promoting exchanges at the Canton Fair.

(4)  Media report

Many mainstream media from home and abroad will be invited to report Canton Fair during the exhibition time, highlighting the leadership, propagation and the influence of

Canton Fair.

6.  Exhibition application

(1) Participation qualifications

Exhibits shall comply with the Participation Provisions for International Pavilion of the 133rd Session of China Import and Export Fair and exhibitors must be in accordance with one of the following requirements:

1) Exhibitors should be the companies legally registered by eligible law in any country or region other than mainland China. Copy of the company registration certificate (with company stamp) or other valid certificates shall be submitted.

2) After submitting required application materials and passing the verification with written notice from the Organizer, enterprises under substantial legal relation with the exhibitor can also jointly participate in the exhibition, including the head office, subsidiary, joint-venture partner, representative office,etc. Relevant supporting documents and authorization materials shall be provided.

(2)  Application methods

Exhibitors can directly make the application to the

Organizer or contact with the agency authorized by the Organizer for application.

The Organizer: China Foreign Trade Centre                       

Tel:(8620)28-888-999 (Outside the Chinese Mainland)

400-888-999 (The Chinese Mainland) Fax:0086-20-89138550

Email:import@cantonfair.org.cn

(3)  Participation procedure

STEP 1: Submit relevant participation documents, including   the business certificate, company & products introduction profile,  certificate of origins or other supporting documents and authorization materials.

STEP 2 : Complete the application form & participation provisions of Canton Fair, sign &seal on the last page (please confirm the participation qualification with the Organizer before filling in the application documents).

STEP 3 : Pay for the exhibition fees once the Notice of

Payment is received. Notice of Payment will be issued shortly once the exhibitors submit the application documents, along with all the supporting materials mentioned above. Enterprises who pay 100% of exhibition fees will be regarded as the final qualification to participate in the exhibition. In principal, once the fee paid, there will be no refund.

STEP 4: Visit http://intl.cantonfair.org.cn/#/importLogin and finish the online registration (for new exhibitor).

STEP 5 : Make preparation for the exhibition as the guide.

(4) The deadline of application

From now on until March 15th , 2023

Registration procedure:

(1) Interested exhibitors can scan the QR code above to fill in the form to apply for registration;

(2) After the submission is successful, we will reply you within 1-2 working days, please keep the phone open.  

Westin Hotel of the Canton Fair is the only five-star hotel that can directly reach the Canton Fair Exhibition Hall through the air corridor. The hotel has 325 spacious and comfortable rooms and suites, 4 restaurants and bars, 10 meeting places, and a total of 3000 square meters of meeting space.

The traffic around the exhibition hall is perfect and very convenient, surrounded by South China Express Trunk, East Ring Expressway and Xingang East Road; Metro Line 8, Xingang East Road Station, directly to the exhibition hall A, Pazhou Station, directly to the exhibition hall B and C; Multi-channel buses set up stops within the exhibition hall.

For the enterprises that sign up for the exhibition, Yinglong will provide the exhibition approval service and enjoy the unlimited business opportunities of the exhibition.

Application Form of 133rd Canton Fair International Pavilion.doc

Participation Provisions of 133rd Canton Fair International Pavilion.doc

Responsibility Letter for online Exhibition of the 133rd Canton Fair International Pavilion.doc

Food and Beverage - English - Publicity Folder-20230106.pdf