Chinese Export Commodities Fair, also called Canton
Fair, is held twice a year in Spring and Autumn since it
was inaugurated in the Spring of 1957. It is China's
largest trade fair of the highest level, of the most
complete varieties and of the largest attendance and
business turnover. Preserving its traditions, the Fair
is a comprehensive and multi-functional event of
international importance.
Fifty Trading Delegations, being composed of
thousands of China's best foreign trade corporations
(enterprises) with good credibility and sound financial
capabilities, take part in the Fair, including foreign
trade companies, factories, scientific research
institutions, foreign invested enterprises, wholly
foreign-owned enterprises, private enterprises, etc.
Besides traditional way of negotiating against
samples, the Fair holds Canton Fair online. The Fair
leans to export trade, though import business is also
done here. Apart from the above-mentioned, various types
of business activities such as economic and technical
cooperations 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, exchanging business information and
developing friendship.
Chinese Export Commodities Fair,
also called Canton Fair, is held twice a year in Spring and
Autumn since it was inaugurated in the Spring of 1957. It is
China's largest trade fair of the highest level, of the most
complete varieties and of the largest attendance and business
turnover. Preserving its traditions, the Fair is a
comprehensive and multi-functional event of international
importance.
Forty-eight Trading Delegations, being
composed of thousands of China's best foreign trade
corporations (enterprises) with good credibility and sound
financial capabilities, take part in the Fair, including
foreign trade companies, factories, scientific research
institutions, foreign invested enterprises, wholly
foreign-owned enterprises, private enterprises, etc.Besides
traditional way of negotiating against samples, the Fair holds
Canton Fair online. The Fair leans to export trade, though
import business is also done here. Apart from the
above-mentioned, various types of business activities such as
economic and technical cooperations 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, exchanging business information and developing
friendship
The Leading Committee of Chinese Export Commodities
Fair" led by the Ministry of Commerce, the People's
Government of Guangdong Province and the People's
Government of Guangzhou City. Composed of leaders of the
Trading Delegations, the various Import/Export Chambers
of Commerce and other departments concerned
Tel: 26080075 (The CECF Liuhua Complex), 89130405
(The CECF Pazhou Complex)
The Secretary Office is responsible for the general
coordination of the CECF affairs, the organization and
coordination of the important events held by the Fair,
the reception of the leaders of the Ministry of Commerce
and VIPs, the implementation of the tasks deployed by
the Ministry of Commerce, the report on the CECF affairs
to higher departments, the circulation of documents and
confidential files among different offices, the
coordination of on-site exhibition services,
communication and financial work, logistic work, etc.
The standing office is set up in Executive Dept.,
China Foreign Trade Centre.
Tel: 26080107
(2)Business Office
for Canton Fair
Tel: 26080057 (The CECF Liuhua Complex), 89130415
(The CECF Pazhou Complex)
The Business Office is responsible for the
organization and deployment of the work of export and
turnover at the CECF, the study and analysis of foreign
trade policies and situations, the guidance on the
statistic work on export and turnover at the Fair, the
guidance on the exhibition effect evaluation of the
Fair, the plan of Fair organization, the organization of
the study on the reform and development of the CECF, the
compilation of the information on the Fair's work, for
example, the Fair Summary, the guidance on the
investigation and punishment for illegally booth
regrating or cession, the coordination of Fair
organization and exhibition together with the trading
delegations and chambers of commerce, the guidance on
and the facilitation of the Fair's informationalization,
the establishment of electronic administerial system,
e-commercial system and information service system of
the Fair, etc.
The standing office is set up in CECF Operation
Dept., China Foreign Trade Centre.
Tel: 26080812
(3)Foreign Affairs
Office for Canton Fair
Tel: 26080077 (The CECF Liuhua Complex), 89130435
(The CECF Pazhou Complex)
Foreign Affairs Office is responsible for the
organization and arrangement of foreign communication
and foreign affairs of Chinese Export Commodities Fair,
including arranging foreign affairs activities of the
chief leaders of CECF; receiving overseas governmental
economic and trading delegations on invitation;
organizing and arranging various kinds of seminars;
inviting or assisting to invite overseas speakers,
officials of consulates, chambers of commerce and
company representatives to attend the above-mentioned
meetings; issuing certificates of foreign visitors.
The standing office is set up in Foreign Liaison
Dept., China Foreign Trade Centre. Tel:
86-20-26080915
(4)Security Office
for Canton Fair
Tel: 26080015 (The CECF Liuhua Complex), 89130455
(The CECF Pazhou Complex)
Security Office is responsible for organizing and
leading the security work of the Fair Complex and
important events, but also for central commanding
security work of visitors and exhibitors' residence and
main activity places. Its main tasks include: working
out security work plan and measures of CECF;
coordinating related work of public security
departments; creating a good and safe social environment
for CECF; ensuring fire safety of exhibition halls;
maintaining the traffic order of the Fair Complex and
neighboring roads to keep smooth traffic.
The
standing office is set up in Security Dept., China
Foreign Trade Centre. Tel: 86-20-26081006
(5)Press Centre for
Canton Fair
Tel: 26080026 (The CECF Liuhua Complex), 89130465
(The CECF Pazhou Complex)
Press Centre is responsible for receiving journalists
and arranging interviews, management of publications,
and arrangement of meeting rooms for all kinds of news
release and seminars; editing and publishing The Canton
Fair Dispatches .
The standing office is set up in CECF Operation
Dept., China Foreign Trade Centre.
Tel:
86-20-26080826
(6)Administrative
Office for Canton Fair
Tel: 26080068 (The CECF Liuhua
Complex), 89130445 (The CECF Pazhou Complex)
Administrative Office is responsible for
organization, management, and coordination of
ideological and political work.
Tel (The standing
office): 020-26080068
(7)Sanitation Office
for Canton Fair
Tel: 26080432 (The CECF Liuhua Complex), 89130485
(The CECF Pazhou Complex)
The Sanitation Office is responsible for the leading
and deployment of the Fair's sanitation work, the close
contact with sanitation-related departments for the
latest sanitation news and situations, the plan of
sanitation work, the propaganda of sanitation work and
epidemic prevention, the inspection of sanitation
implementation, the collection of the reports on disease
cases, the treatment of emergencies, the organization
and coordination of sanitation work, the compilation of
the information of the Fair's sanitation work and
epidemic prevention.
The standing office is set up in Exhibition Service
Dept., China Foreign Trade Centre.
Tel: 26081502
(8)Certificate
Service Center for Canton Fair
Tel: 26081071 (The CECF Liuhua Complex), 89130495
(The CECF Pazhou Complex)
The Certificate Service Centre is responsible for
printing, making and extending the CECF passes of
various kinds together with some other departments of
the China Foreign Trade Centre, the collection and
analysis of buyers-related information, the plan of
registration system improvement, the training of
registration staff and the management of registration
offices of the Fair.
The standing office is set up in Security Dept.,
China Foreign Trade Centre.