Affected by COVID-19,  NEWSTAR could not attend the 127th Canton Fair!

Date：2020-06-11 10:34:05

Dear friends, I'm sorry we can't attend the 127th Canton Fair due to the epidemic, please understand! I hope all the friends are in good health and everything goes well, and I hope this session of the Canton Fair can be opened with great enthusiasm.

Although we are absent, but we know this Canton Fair will be held on the Internet!It is also the first time the Fair has moved to the cloud since it was founded in 1957.Li Jinqi, deputy director and secretary general of the Canton Fair and director of the China Foreign Trade Center, said at a press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday that the move to the cloud is a new attempt by the Fair to embrace digitization on a deeper level and has become a landmark event of the "Internet + Exhibition".The deputy director of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce said that the online Canton Fair can match up different subjects, links and market demands in the trade field. Make full use of the advantages of information technology, break through time and space limitations, reduce intermediate links and lower exhibition costs.

This year's Canton Fair will be completely free of charge to exhibitors and buyers, overseas buyers do not need to register in advance, they can Register at any time to view the exhibition and negotiate purchases. At present, the Canton Fair website application system development, testing, rehearsal, etc. are advancing steadily according to the schedule, and will be officially launched on June 15. Run. Li Jinqi said, the current Canton Fair set up 50 exhibition areas according to 16 categories of goods, all exhibits on June 15-24 at the same time! On-line display, exhibition period of 10 days. Exhibitors can upload their products through pictures, videos and other formats, or choose their own display templates and upload their VR Virtual Booths, build exclusive display center; buyers can search for products or companies, visit the virtual booths of enterprises. In addition, the current Canton Fair network system will also provide live marketing services for each enterprise to set up a 10×24 24-hour online live room.

Bai Ming, deputy director of the International Market Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, told reporters that compared with the offline trade fair, there will be no limit on the number of exhibitors and buyers, which will improve the efficiency of negotiations between the two sides.The first online attempt is bound to run into all kinds of problems, but Bai Ming believes that with the continuous development of Information technology in China, many large exhibitions are held offline, but they are also combined with many online links, which have been fused together.Bai Ming believes that China is still facing the third Fair in the second half of the year. Under the uncertain trend of the global epidemic situation, the online Canton Fair will accumulate a lot of valuable experience for large fairs such as the Fair in different forms, such as online and online + offline.