Customers in the Flower City Exhibition Hall keep coming and going, and overseas buyers stop to admire the solar cleaning robots and intelligent kitchen appliances, touching the new achievements of Chinese intelligent manufacturing with their fingertips. The 140th Canton Fair coincides with its 70th anniversary, with a large number of specialized and innovative enterprises showcasing their new products. Chinese and foreign merchants engage in face-to-face negotiations, compressing months of inspection and negotiation into the exhibition.

Intelligent manufacturing with new features

The Canton Fair will be held in Guangzhou in three phases from October 15 to November 4, 2026. The first phase will focus on advanced manufacturing. The total exhibition area is 520000 square meters, the number of booths is more than 25000, the number of exhibitors is more than 12000, and about 340000 overseas purchasers will be present. The joint construction of the the Belt and Road national purchasers will be actively reported. Among the 32000 participating companies, there are over 11000 high-quality enterprises such as specialized, refined, unique, and new champions. Guangzhou CNC has participated in the Canton Fair for 19 consecutive years, upgrading its exhibits from single products to multiple industrial robots. Its products are sold to more than 80 countries and regions, and enterprises look forward to seizing the opportunity of AI intelligent agent integration. Keywords: Canton Fair, high-level opening-up to the outside world

Building a new platform

The establishment ceremony of the Purchasing Alliance will be held simultaneously with the exhibition. The alliance will attract the world's top 500, global retail top 250, and leading enterprises from various countries, optimize customer services, and promote information sharing and resource collaboration. The head of Ingles department store in Spain stated that the unique industrial depth of the Canton Fair is an advantage that other exhibitions cannot compare to. Customs data shows that China's import and export of goods reached 39.94 trillion yuan in the first three quarters of this year, a year-on-year increase of 18.8%. The head of China Foreign Trade Center stated that the Canton Fair continues to uphold the multilateral trading system and contribute to the construction of an open world economy. Assistant Minister of Commerce Zhang Li stated that the Canton Fair will anchor the goal of never ending and leading the market, focusing on continuous innovation in digitalization, greening, specialization, and helping to build a strong trading nation. After 70 years of development, the Canton Fair has become the largest and longest running international trade event in China, with the most complete range of goods, the highest number of merchants, and the best transactions.Editor/Min Jing