The 131st Canton Fair opened today. The reporter learned from the opening press conference of the 131st Canton Fair held on April 14 that the overall scale of the Canton Fair remains stable, with about 25500 exhibitors at home and abroad, and 50 exhibition areas according to 16 categories of commodities. Enterprises uploaded more than 2.9 million exhibits, including 900000 new products and 480000 green and low-carbon exhibits, all reaching a record high. 2.9 million exhibits converge on the "cloud" end With the theme of "connecting domestic and international double circulation", this Canton Fair will be held online from April 15 to 24 for a period of 10 days. The exhibition includes three parts: online exhibition platform, supply and procurement docking service and cross-border e-commerce zone. Columns such as exhibitors' exhibits, virtual exhibition hall, exhibitors' connection, news and activities, conference services and so on are set up on the official website. Xu Bing, spokesman of the Canton Fair and deputy director of China Foreign Trade Center, introduced that the Canton Fair will continue to set up a special area for "Rural Revitalization" and arrange 974 exhibitors from poverty-stricken areas to display. The export exhibition gathered a large number of high-quality enterprises with strong strength, including 2132 brand enterprises, 4395 enterprises with the titles of "little giant" specializing in special new products, single champion of manufacturing industry, national high-tech enterprise, China Time-honored Brand, AEO advanced certification of China Customs and national enterprise technology center, and about 950 enterprises from 102 National Foreign Trade Transformation and upgrading bases participated in the exhibition. The import exhibition attracted 402 overseas enterprises from 32 countries and regions, including the world's top 500 enterprises, Honeywell of the United States, dimension of German high-quality tool enterprises, cascat, a leading lighting enterprise in the UK, Xizhe, a small household appliance enterprise in Japan and other well-known enterprises. It is worth noting that a total of 117 enterprises from RCEP member countries participated in the import exhibition, accounting for 29.1% of the exhibitors in the import exhibition. On the online platform of the Canton Fair, enterprises uploaded more than 2.9 million exhibits, including 900000 new products and 480000 green and low-carbon exhibits, all reaching a record high. This Canton Fair will not charge online service fees from exhibitors, nor will it charge any fees from cross-border e-commerce platforms participating in synchronous activities. Can automatically obtain the business card of the purchaser "Focusing on improving the effectiveness of trade docking and user experience, this Canton Fair continues to optimize and improve the functions of online platforms." Xu Bing introduced that the Canton Fair comprehensively updated the technical infrastructure of the platform and optimized the data structure of exhibitors' exhibits. The system has higher operation efficiency and can quickly respond to changes in users' needs. At the same time, it also optimizes the global network acceleration configuration, effectively reduces the delay of domestic and foreign access, and improves the speed of cross-border access. The online platform of this Canton Fair also strengthened the recognition of high-quality exhibitors' exhibits, added enterprise logos such as specialized special new, high-tech and Chinese time-honored brands, as well as product logos such as green, low-carbon and intelligent products, expanded the search dimension and improved the search accuracy and professionalism. "Launch of new products of Canton Fair" and "selection of enterprise display" are also the first columns to help enterprises fully display their brand image. At the same time, the Canton Fair will provide 10 × 24-hour all-weather intelligent customer service helps exhibitors make better use of the online platform. On the premise of respecting the wishes of purchasers, exhibitors can also take the initiative to view the information of purchasers, automatically obtain the business cards of purchasers, and actively initiate real-time communication with purchasers, so as to facilitate the interaction and communication between the two sides. On the basis of trade services such as customs, freight forwarding, finance, insurance, certification and design, this Canton Fair will introduce new services such as China EU trains and shipping, as well as new formats such as cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses, so as to improve the whole chain and multi format trade services. 50 global cloud promotions will be held The current Canton Fair accurately carried out investment promotion and comprehensively improved the function of trade docking. "We sent 40 batches of series subject emails to purchasers in more than 220 countries and regions around the world to invite purchasers to negotiate online. The system uses the global new media marketing matrix to carry out multi subject online marketing and promotion activities to attract new purchasers to register online." Xu Bing said. Focusing on the "one belt, one road", RCEP countries and regions, especially the main market of China's main trading partners and buyers, the fair also combines industry exhibition areas, and develops precise marketing and invitations for key market and key customers in the light of the regional strategy, and conducts 50 Cloud Bridge promotion and 8 trade promotion and matching activities in the world. Promote domestic key industrial clusters and brand enterprises, and connect with multinational leading enterprises and large buyers. One belt, one road to Vietnam, Laos, Kuwait and Iraq, and 14 RCEP business partners signed a cooperation agreement. The global partnership will reach 170, and expand the global partners and foreign trade circles of the Canton Fair. "The supply and procurement sides of this Canton Fair actively participated and received enthusiastic response." Xu Bing introduced that up to now, 20 international leading enterprises such as Auchan in France, kesco in Finland, TROX in Spain and Changyou in Indonesia have organized more than 400 professional buyers and carefully prepared a rich procurement list. 33 trading groups, more than 50 industrial clusters and more than 500 enterprises in China actively signed up for trade docking activities. (Xinhua News Agency)