Source: CCTV news client
Autumn is high and cool, and the pearl water is slight.
If you are in Guangzhou at this moment, you know how beautiful Guangzhou is at this time. Beautiful season, always looking forward to beautiful encounters.
Goods are like wheels, and people are surging.
Data is the best proof of "good expectations".
Recently, various ports in Guangzhou have ushered in the peak of passenger and cargo arrivals. On October 11, the "Haizhu Bay" passenger ship docked at the Hong Kong and Macao passenger port in Pazhou, Guangzhou, and passengers from the Hong Kong International Airport disembarked one after another, many of whom quickly cleared customs from the "Canton Fair Guest Convenient Channel" set up by Guangzhou Customs with relevant certificates. Exhibitors have gathered one after another, and overseas exhibits have also entered the country one after another. As of 9 o'clock on October 11, 72 batches of Canton Fair inbound exhibits worth more than 4.3 million yuan have entered the country one after another, mainly from Egypt, Thailand, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Nigeria and Pakistan and other countries and regions.
According to the statistics of Guangzhou Customs, since October, the average daily number of arrivals at Guangzhou Port under the supervision of Guangzhou Customs has exceeded 23,000, and the average daily inbound flights have exceeded 157, an increase of about 44% and 32% year-on-year respectively.
Another Canton Fair is coming as scheduled.
The 136th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) was held in Guangzhou in three phases from October 15th to November 4th. As of October 14, 147,000 overseas buyers have pre-registered for this Canton Fair.
For many people, the Canton Fair is familiar and unfamiliar.
Familiarly, the Canton Fair is held twice a year, and the high-density and large-scale publicity reports make people familiar with the names of the Canton Fair and Guangzhou.
What is strange is that due to the high degree of specialization of the Canton Fair, how important it is, for the general public, there is less personal experience.
From here, see China
Since the first Canton Fair was held in 1957, the Canton Fair has chosen Guangdong and Guangzhou. Looking back now, the Canton Fair, which is located in the "two windows", is of self-evident significance. It is the longest, largest and most effective export commodity trading event in the mainland, and plays a pivotal role in the development of foreign trade.
Every city has its own temperament. As one of the starting points of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, Guangzhou's foreign trade has been prosperous for a long time, and the spirit of daring to be the first, open and inclusive business and trade has been integrated into the fabric of the city.
The fate of Guangzhou and the Canton Fair, starting from 1957, has been tightly bound, and has gone through ups and downs since then.
From the front of Haizhu Bridge, the shore of Liuhua Lake to the foot of Pazhou Tower, from the traditional central axis of Guangzhou to the new central axis, the Canton Fair Complex has changed its location several times, and has always resonated with the development of Guangdong and Guangzhou at the same frequency.
With the eastward shift of Guangzhou's central axis, Guangzhou has always left the core position in the urban development process to the Canton Fair. Over the past 68 years, the city of Guangzhou and the Canton Fair have relied on each other, achieved each other, grown together, and achieved common glory.
Since 1965, the annual export turnover accounts for more than 30% of the country's total foreign trade annual exports, and in the early 70s, it once supported half of China's foreign trade exports, becoming the barometer and weather vane of China's foreign trade.
In 2007, the exhibition added an import exhibition area, "China Export Commodities Fair" was renamed "China Import and Export Fair", and the Canton Fair also grew from a window made in China to an exhibition and sales trading platform made in the world.
The Canton Fair not only witnessed the wave of reform and opening up in Guangdong and Guangzhou and the vigorous development of foreign trade, but also provided unlimited space for Guangzhou to build a richer and more mature industrial cluster, and built a broader international trade cooperation platform for enterprises.
From only more than 1,200 buyers from 19 countries and regions in the first session, to more than 200,000 overseas buyers from more than 200 countries and regions today, the "international meeting room" is worthy of its name.
The reunion of buyers across the ocean and thousands of miles not only reflects the world's trust in Chinese products, but also reflects the world's confidence in China's economy.
"Make friends with the world and benefit the world." Simple, yet profound. "Serving high-quality development and promoting high-level opening-up" is the commitment of the Canton Fair to the world.
The flower city is full of flowers, and friends are coming.
From here, embrace the world
A world platform, a global perspective. Starting from the Canton Fair, embrace the world.
Looking at the overall macro situation and the development trend, we must not only look at the present, but also look at the future. We can see not only the "shape" of short-term economic fluctuations, but also the "potential" of long-term development.
Stand at the moment and look inside and out. On the one hand, the external environment is becoming more complex and severe, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasting that the global economy will grow by 3.2% this year, lower than last year. The weak growth momentum of major economies, the heavy debt burden, the recent widespread implementation of interest rate cuts, the obvious volatility of the international market, the intensification of global trade protection, and the increase in uncertainties and instability will all adversely affect the mainland through trade, investment, financial and other channels.
On the other hand, the downward pressure on the domestic economy has increased, since the third quarter of this year, major economic indicators such as industry, investment and consumption have fluctuated, some industries "involution" competition, some enterprises have not adapted to optimization and upgrading or transformation and development changes, some increase production without increasing income and profits, some production and operation are more difficult, and some areas of risk and hidden dangers are still large.
Undoubtedly, under the current complex and severe situation of the global economy, the Canton Fair will open its doors with a more open attitude, welcome businesses from all over the world to go to the covenant of cooperation and development, and will inject strong momentum into the development of global trade in the process of joint discussion, dedication and cooperation, and once again show the world China's determination and confidence to continuously expand opening up and share development opportunities.
As the "No. 1 exhibition in China", the Canton Fair has a total exhibition area of 1.55 million square meters, a total of 74,000 booths, and more than 30,000 offline exhibitors, including about 29,400 export exhibition enterprises, an increase of nearly 800 over the previous session. There will be 1.15 million new products, 1.04 million green products, and 1.11 million products with independent intellectual property rights on display, all of which have increased significantly compared with the previous session.
In addition, this year's Canton Fair will further enrich the means of investment promotion, improve the accuracy and professionalism of investment promotion, and strive for more high-quality overseas buyers to attend the fair. At present, judging from the pre-registration of overseas buyers, hotel bookings and flight booking rates, the arrival of overseas buyers at the 136th Canton Fair is expected to increase in quantity and quality.
According to Chu Shijia, director of the China Foreign Trade Center, as of October 9, 125,000 overseas buyers have pre-registered. Among them, 75.7% of the countries jointly built the "Belt and Road", 20% of the BRICS countries, 17.7% of the OECD member countries, 16.4% of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries, 13.4% of the Middle East countries, and 12.5% of the European and United States countries.
On the opening day, the venue was crowded with people. Exhibitors and buyers from more than 220 countries and regions around the world, with different languages and different skin colors, are closely docking, and the vitality and resilience of China's foreign trade are clearly visible in this docking and negotiation.
Near and far, the scenery is still the same.
How to be new quality, only innovation
What is a good exhibition for exhibitors and buyers? This is a question that makes the reporter of the main station curious. What is surprising is that in addition to the good environment and excellent service, they also know the "new quality productivity", and mentioned that they can make money and make money on this platform. Innovation, so that buyers and exhibitors have tasted the sweetness, they are not without emotion, this platform, is to make high-quality money, high-quality money.
High quality is inseparable from new quality productivity.
The new quality productivity is the quality of advanced productivity in which innovation plays a leading role, gets rid of the traditional economic growth mode and productivity development path, has the characteristics of high technology, high efficiency and high quality, and conforms to the new development concept.
The first phase of this Canton Fair takes "advanced manufacturing" as the theme, highlighting the support of advanced industries and science and technology, and recruiting new quality productivity. A large number of new enterprises, new products, new technologies and new forms of business have emerged.
Humanoid robots accelerate their "evolution". A company from Shenzhen is one of the very few companies in the world with full-stack technical capabilities for humanoid robots, with more than 2,100 patents related to robotics and artificial intelligence, of which more than 400 are overseas patents, accounting for more than 50% of invention patents, and the number of effective patents for humanoid robots ranks first in the world.
The relevant person in charge of the enterprise is proud when it comes to technology. "We specialize in humanoid robots for various industry applications, including industry-leading robotics technology, artificial intelligence technology, robotics and artificial intelligence integration technology, and robot operating system application framework. Before the Canton Fair was launched, it attracted many businessmen to consult. ”
There are nearly 4,600 new exhibitors at this year's Canton Fair, and more than 8,000 enterprises with the titles of national high-tech, specialized, special and new little giants, and individual champions in the manufacturing industry, an increase of more than 40% over the previous session.
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to strengthen the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, establish a mechanism for cultivating and strengthening leading enterprises in science and technology, and strengthen the deep integration of industry, education and research led by enterprises.
Guangdong is the vanguard, pioneer and experimental area of reform and opening up. On the 1st of this month, the "Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Regulations" came into effect. The "largest economic province" once again "strongly supported" scientific and technological innovation in the form of legislation, accelerated the construction of a system and mechanism to support comprehensive innovation, and anchored new quality productivity. We are convinced that we will focus on "deepening" the future of science and technology. In the face of the unknown, the future can be expected.
If you come to the Canton Fair Complex, there are not only a large number of new products and new technologies, but also a large number of mechanical equipment and automated production lines in the workshop. A company from Chengdu, Sichuan Province brought a self-developed packaging production line to provide a whole-process solution from hardware to software.
Exhibitor Zhu Shilin told reporters: "Using our production line, we can save at least half of the labor. And our price is 1/3 of their price compared with European and American equipment. Our expectation of coming to the Canton Fair is to bring our Chinese equipment to the world. Of course, we also hope to get more orders at the Canton Fair. ”
If the progress of science and technology is hard-core innovation, service innovation is the "fertile soil". This year's Canton Fair will improve the exhibition services and create a good negotiation environment for exhibitors; Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, launch the service of issuing exhibition certificates for the first time, relieve the worries caused by the fact that some exhibitors have not had time to apply for relevant patents for new products, encourage enterprises to innovate independently, and display more new products and technologies.
In addition, the Canton Fair online platform has also optimized 18 functions, launched the virtual digital human service for the first time, and launched the new Canton Fair App. At present, about 48,000 companies have uploaded about 3.75 million exhibits, and the number of enterprises and exhibits has increased by 60% and 50% respectively compared with the previous year, both reaching a record high.
Behind the new digital highs is the never-ending pursuit of innovation.
Looking down from the air, the vast land of China, from north to south, is immersed in the joy of harvest. In the Canton Fair Complex, the enthusiasm of old buyers here is undiminished, and new buyers are flocking here.
Over the past 68 years since its establishment, the Canton Fair has not only witnessed China's opening up to the outside world and increasingly integrated into the world, but also demonstrated to the world that China has the confidence and ability to provide more and better Made in China and Created in China for the world.
Surging momentum, vigorous prospects. (Reporter Zheng Shu Liu Runze)
(Source: CCTV News Client)