The visit cards are stacked in thick batteries. Sales representatives are ready for intense days to negotiate volumes, prices and, wait, ensure orders. Buyers from all over the world crowd the security check: Africans, Latin Americans, Western, the Middle East, people everywhere seem to have gathered to buy in China. “A warm welcome to the guests of all countries and regions participating in 137Th Canton Fair [Guangzhou]! “He proclaimed a huge banner stretched through the central tension on an eight -lane road.
Nowhere is the cliché of “the world factory” more tangible than fair, hero twice a year in spring (from April 15 to May 5, 2025) and in autumn, in an exhibition field of impressive scale along the Pearl River. Tractors, stoves, solar panels, smartphones or drills: for each type of product, boxes or exhibitors are ready to do business with the 200,000 visiting buyers.
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