Exhibit Sections
Phase 1(October15-19)	Phase 2(October24-28)	Phase 3(November2-6)
Large Machinery and   Equipment	Kitchenware & Tableware	Men and Women's Cloths
Small Machinery	General Ceramics	Kids' wear
Bicycles	Art Ceramics	Under wear
Motorcycles	Home Decorations	Sports and casual wear
Vehicle Spare Parts	Glass Artware	Furs,Leather,Downs & Rclated   Products
Chemical Products	Furniture	Fashion Accessories and   Fittings
Hardware	Weaving,Rattan and Iron   Arts	Home Textiles
Tools	Gardening Products	Textile Raw Materials &   Fabrics
Vehicles(Outdoor)	Stone and Iron   Products(Outdoor)	Carpets & Tapestries
Construction   Machinery(Outdoor)	Household Iterns	Food
Household Electrical   Appliances	Personal Care Products	Native Produce
Consumer Electronics	Toiletries	Medicines and Health  Products
Electronic and Electrical  Products	Clocks,Watches & Optical  Instruments	Medical Devices,Disposables  and   Dressings
Computer and Communication  Products	Toys	Sports,Travel and Recreation   Products
Lighting Equipment	Gifts and Premiuns	Office Supplies
Building and Decorative  Materials	Festival Products	Shoes
Sanitary and Bathroom  Equipment		Cases and Bags
International Pavilion

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-seven 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 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, exchanging business information and developing friendship. 

Thousands of exhibitors representing Chinese international trade companies and manufacturers will be present.They will exhibit over 100,000 kinds of goods.These goods are of high quality, competitive prices and are often specialties from the various regions in China. They bring new meaning to the phrase "Made in China." The fair will be held in a complex with an exhibition space of 160,000 square meters. There will be more than five thousand 3-by-3-square-meter booths, all in accordance to?international standards.?There are six main exhibition halls. The details are as follows:

1. Food, Native Produce and Animal By-products:It features products like foodstuffs, native products, carpet, tobacco, tea, gardening goods, fur and leather, etc.

2. Metals, Minerals and Chemicals: Includes chemical products, stone carving, machinery, industrial mineral and metal products, agriculture implements, building materials and minerals & metallurgical products ( including construction pottery, porcelain as well as sanitary equipment ).

3. Light industrial Products, Arts and Crafts: Includes ceramics & porcelain, toys, straw and willow plaited products, pearl, gem & jewelry, bone carving and jade carving, special arts and crafts, drawn work and embroideries, footwear and headwear, stationery and sporting goods, clocks, watches and optical, suitcases & bags, household utensils, furniture, merchandise.

4. Textiles and Garments: This section includes textile, silk fabrics, clothes, garments and gray silk. cotton, wool, bast fibber, silk, knitting, dyeing & printing, chemical fiber.

5. Machinery and Electrical Products:Includes electron and household appliance, information products and apparatus, giant machinery equipment, bicycles, motorcycles, automobile and fittings, vehicle and engineering & farm machinery.

6. Pharmaceutical and Health Products:?Includes herbs, medicine, health products, medical apparatus and instruments ( including huge, complex types ) .

7. Internet, computer's products: The show is expected to attract more than 100,000 merchants from 170 countries around the world. Most will place orders for goods or seek business partners in China.?The business turnover is expected to exceed 15 billion US dollars.  

To keep pace with the vigorous development in China as well as the trade relations and amicable exchanges between China and the rest of the world, the Exhibition of Chinese Export Commodities (the precedent of Chinese Export Commodities Fair) was established in the autumn of 1956. The first Fair was staged in the former Sino-Soviet Friendship Building in the spring of 1957. Looking back at the forty years traversed by the Trade Fair, we can well see that tremendous changes have come off in every aspect of the Fair such as the Fair's exhibition space, products for export, number of foreign visitors, business turnover, and so on. The Fair serves as a historical witness to the development of China's foreign trade, it has faithfully recorded the pace of the country's growth.

During his life time, Premier Zhou Enlai came to the Fair many times

Starting with 12, 000 kinds of commodities, the Canton Fair has gradually increased its number of commodities available for export from session to session. Now, there are over 100, 000 kinds or products from famous brands. It features new quality products, specialties and products adapting advanced technology from various parts of the country.     Many enterprises go the Fair armed with their novel products, crack items, etc. in attempts to squeeze their way into the world market via the Guangzhou Trade Fair. In the wake of rapid developments in China's economy, especially the home based industries, the Guangzhou Trade Fair was able to obtain more and more supplies and improved its product mix to a great extent. For example, the ratio of manufactured goods has risen from 20% at the outset of the Fair in 1957 to 85.6% in 1995. To encourage the export of more high-graded products or high value-added products, particularly machinery and electronic products. Special Exhibition Sections have been set up at the Guangzhou Trade Fair. This serves to place special emphasis on these high technology products as well as to make them more prominent.

Shi Guangsheng, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and Lu Ruihua, the Governor of Guangdong Province, inspected the Fair

The Fair's business records have shown that, irrespective of which historical period, the Fair remained steady in its trade and the export transactions continue to grow. Even in the " Three years of Difficulty (1959-1961)", the Fair's export trade continued to rise (4.9% over 1959, and 17.5% over 1960). In the "Ten years of national turmoil", the export business of the Fair, went up inspire of some setbacks. For example, the business concluded at the Autumn Fair'70 was worth US$500 million and at the Autumn Fair'72, US$ l billion. The Trading Delegations are organized by their different provinces and municipalities; the exhibition halls itself are arranged by the Chambers of Commerce. While Trading Delegations and exhibition halls are integrated, the exhibitions will be arranged according to trades. Up till the 86th Session, the Fair had done an aggregated export business of US$ 263 billion.

Vice-Premier Li Lanqing and State Councilor Wu Yi (the former Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation), inspected the Fair

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