It is the second time that the China Import and Export Fair (CIEF) has devoted a special zone to imported products, with even more hi-tech products on display.
Fair organizers guarantee that all the items being showcased have been made overseas.
The exhibition is located at Hall No 21 and 22 of the Pazhou Exhibition and Convention Center.
"The imported products exhibition appeals to me because it has plenty of hi-tech and high quality products," a buyer from Northeast China’s Liaoning Province said.
The overseas products pavilion received a large number of visitors yesterday. Exhibitors from Malaysia, South Korea, as well as China’s Taiwan Province and Hong Kong SAR were clad in costumes unique to their region, adding to the attractiveness of the exhibition site.
The first pavilion as one enters the imported goods exhibition area is that of General Motors Corporation, proudly displaying its Hummers and red Chevrolet sports cars.
According to CIEF officials, all the brand-new cars have been shipped in from America.
Machine products occupy a large part of the exhibition area, with almost all machine makers trying to produce environmentally friendly products in line with global trends.
Among the exhibits is a solar battery inductor for use in restrooms, which has been manufactured by a Korean company called Taesung.
High-class cars, environment-friendly machines and electronic products are not the only attractions of the fair. Light industry products with exotic cultural features are also on show to impress consumers, including wooden photo frames from Cambodia, ovens from Turkey and cobble sculptures from Kenya.
"The fair gives us a chance to present our unique products," a Hong Kong exhibitor surnamed Huang said.
He said the fair has set strict guidelines for import zone exhibits, which have prevented a lot of companies from participating.
However, Huang was confident that more hi-tech companies will come to the fair in the future.
"Almost half of the companies are not qualified to participate in the import fair," Xu Bing, spokesman of CIEF, said.
The exhibition area of the import zone has gone up by 50 percent compared with the last session in April. Meanwhile, prospective exhibitors had to meet higher requirements in order to qualify.
For example, all exhibiting companies must have been registered overseas more than three years ago and all products on display had to have been made overseas. Further, all exhibitors had to provide certificate of customs clearance before they could move their ware into the exhibition halls.
A Hong Kong exhibitor of hi-tech products is happy to see the new requirements formulated by the organizers.
"All of our products are designed and made in Hong Kong. And the new requirements, by their very essence, are an encouragement for independent innovation," he said.
(Source: Canton Fair News)
