Canton Fair Schedule Change Notification(From www.cantonhotelweb.com)

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 24, 2011 -- The Native Produce has changed from Phase 3 “Food & Native Produce” to now Phase 2 “Gift” section.

The 108th Session of China Import and Export Fair Concluded Successfully on November 4 at Canton Fair Complex. According to Mr. Liu Jianjun, Vice Secretary General and Spokesman of the Canton Fair, under the leadership of the party of Ministry of Commerce and the substantial support and coordination of related departments in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou Municipality, through the joint efforts of all participants, this session of the Canton Fair runs smoothly in general. Foreign investors are active in attending the fair and the atmosphere of negotiation is warm. Compared with the 107th session, buyer attendance witnessed a slight decrease while business turnover maintains a recovery growth, but not yet recovered to pre-crisis level.

Mr. Liu Jianjun pointed out that, 200,612 overseas buyers from 208 countries and regions around the world attended the 108th Canton Fair, basically the same with 107th Canton Fair with only 2.38% decrease, however an increase of 5.7% over the same period last year. Among them, the number of buyers from the European Union, the United States significantly increased. Compared with last year, the greatest increase comes from Europe with a total of 41,735 buyers attending the fair, an increase of up to 22.88%; 109,536 buyers from Asia, 28,879 from America attend the Fair with a slight decline about 7.85% and 1.61% respectively; the buyer attendance from Oceania and Africa witnesses a double-digit decline, namely 6,180 and 14,282 people respectively, a decrease of 11.25% and 12.64%.

The numbers of buyers among the top five countries are: Hong Kong SAR with 26,935, the United States with 11,725, 8,737 from Taiwan Province, 6,829 from Iran and 6,598 from Russia. Among the total buyers, the number of regular buyers reached 135,403, accounting for 67.5% of the total; the number of new buyers reaches 65,209, accounting for 32.5% of the total overseas buyers.

Compared with the previous session, developed countries and regions with a faster growth rate in buyer attendance are: the European Union with a growth rate of 24.52%, Japan with 11.76%, the U.S. with 3.33%. South Africa, Brazil, Turkey, Russia and other major emerging markets also see a rapid increase in buyer attendance, which is up by 8.16%, 9.66%, 11.13% and 18.26% respectively.

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