China News Service, Guangzhou, July 21 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) According to the news from the Canton Fair Press Center on the 21st, the 130th China Import and Export Fair ("Canton Fair") will be online and offline from October 15 to November 3 Integrated and held, the total exhibition period is 20 days.

This will be the first time that the Canton Fair will be held online and offline.

  Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the 127th to 129th Canton Fair was held online.

  According to reports, the 130th Canton Fair will continue to set up 51 exhibition areas based on 16 categories of commodities, and simultaneously set up "Rural Revitalization Featured Products" exhibition areas online and offline.

Among them, the offline exhibition is held in three phases in accordance with the usual practice. Each phase will take 4 days, with a total area of ​​1.185 million square meters, and about 60,000 standard booths. It will focus on inviting representatives of overseas institutions (enterprises) in China and domestic purchasers to participate. meeting.

The online exhibition will increase the development of suitable offline application scenarios and offline drainage functions.

  The Canton Fair is a comprehensive international trade event with the longest history, the largest scale, the most complete variety of commodities and the best transaction effect in China.

According to reports, the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China and the People’s Government of Guangdong Province will step up efforts to improve exhibition organization, celebrations, epidemic prevention and control and other programs, to better play the role of the Canton Fair’s all-round opening up platform, and consolidate and expand the results of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development , The service builds a new development pattern in which the domestic big cycle is the main body and the domestic and international double cycles promote each other.

  Xu Bing, spokesperson of the Canton Fair and deputy director of the China Foreign Trade Center, said previously that practice has proved that online and offline have their own advantages and complement each other and are irreplaceable.

The Canton Fair will accelerate the digital transformation, apply digital technology to all aspects of exhibition organization, investment promotion, and service, continuously improve the level of digitalization and convenience, and create more commercial value for exhibition customers; it will promote the integrated planning and integrated promotion of the Canton Fair online and offline Integrate operations and strive to build an all-weather trade platform that promotes, integrates, and empowers each other online and offline, and provides a greater stage for global win-win trade cooperation.

  At present, the on-site construction of the fourth phase of the Canton Fair Complex is in full swing.

The project has a total construction area of ​​about 580,000 square meters, which is the largest expansion project in the history of the development of the Canton Fair Complex. After completion, it will help the Canton Fair Complex to become one of the largest exhibition complexes in the world.

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