Briefing Profiles of CECF

The CECF Chinese Export Commodities Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, is held twice each year in the Spring and Autumn since it was inaugurated in the Spring of 1957. It is China's largest trade fair of the highest level, with the most completed varieties and of the highest number of attendance and business transactions. Preserving its traditions, the Fair is a comprehensive and multi-functional event of international importance.

The fair consists of forty-seven Trading Delegations, assembled from thousands of China's best foreign trade corporations and enterprises with excellent credibility and sound financial capacity. Organizations taking part in the Fair including foreign trade companies, manufacturers, scientific research institutions, foreign investment enterprises, foreign-owned subsidiaries, and privately-owned corporations, etc.

In addition to the traditional way of negotiating business basing on available product samples, the Fair also offers the Canton Fair Online Services for additional and follow up business connections. Even though the Fair leans toward export trade, but business imports are also part of the major events. Apart from the above-mentioned, various types of business activities such as economic and technical cooperation and exchanges, commodity inspection, insurance, transportation, advertising, consultation, etc. are also carried out in flexible ways. Business people from all over the world are gathering in Guangzhou during this period to exchange business information and developing friendship.