Phase 2 of the 139th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) – to be held in Guangzhou from April 23 to 27 – will focus on goods like hardware, housewares, gifts and decoration, and building materials and furniture.
The seminar on “Green Building Materials and Smart Home Industry” and “Emerging Markets (Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe) Trade Compliance Development” will be hosted on April 24 and 25, respectively.
The second phase of the 139th edition of the Canton Fair kicked off in Guangzhou on Thursday. Spanning an area of 515,000 square meters, the exhibition features 25,000 booths and over 10,000 participating enterprises. https://t.co/KKnoU9T3Sx pic.twitter.com/PPeYqni8J6
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The 139th Canton Fair is a record-breaking event, with three sessions held over 1.55 million square metres, and more than 32,000 exhibitors on-site.
A festival connecting GBA cities
This year, the 6th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Chinese Theatre Culture Festival will, for the first time, see a “four-city collaboration” between Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Macao.
The festival, which will run from April 22 to June 28, presents 10 productions – including Yue Opera, Taizhou Luantan Opera, Cantonese opera and more – with 23 performances.
The all-female Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe will stage its own production of Su Dongpo as the festival’s opening ceremony at Hong Kong’s Xiqu Centre on April 24. The Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe has also created a selection of Cantonese opera excerpts for Hong Kong.
This is the first time the festival has had a venue in Shenzhen, where three plays will be staged.
Developer-focused robotics expo
The robot supply chain and robot development trade show, FAIR plus, will be held in Shenzhen from April 22.
The three-day exhibition, the world’s first, will feature more than 500 upstream suppliers and robot makers, organisers say. It will feature over 500 upstream suppliers and robot manufacturers, and more than 50 areas of the embodied intelligent robotics value chain.
Some 75 per cent of the exhibitors will be upstream suppliers, such as manufacturers of control systems and sensors, and AI algorithms and chips. The rest will make robots, undertake robot design and research and development, and integrate robot systems.
The show will include seminars and networking opportunities to address robot technologies, as well as their applications in health care, marine and agricultural industries.
