The 135th Canton Fair will be held in three phases from April 15 to May 5 in Guangzhou, with the online platform operating on a regular basis throughout the year. This year's Canton Fair has an exhibition area of 1.55 million square meters and a total of 74,000 booths. More than 29,000 enterprises participated in the exhibition, a record high. Among them, 28,600 enterprises in the export exhibition, more than 4,300 new exhibitors, 680 enterprises in the import exhibition, the source of expansion to 50 countries and regions. At present, the preparatory work is progressing smoothly.
Among the exhibitors of this year's Canton Fair, there are over 5,500 state-level high-tech enterprises, manufacturing single champions, and specialized, special and new small giants, an increase of 20% over the previous session. It is expected that more than 1 million new products will be displayed on site, more than 450,000 green products and more than 250,000 products with independent intellectual property rights, which are all increased compared with the previous session. more than 4,000 exhibitors have won international awards for innovation and design. More than 4,000 exhibitors have won international awards for innovative design, and the R&D investment of more than 10,000 exhibitors accounts for more than 10% of their total sales revenue.
This year's Canton Fair has nearly 3,600 exhibitors related to digital technology and intelligent manufacturing display topics, and over 90,000 pieces of intelligent products including brain-computer interface intelligent bionic hands, automatic navigation and transportation equipment, and artificial intelligence translators. More than 50% of the exhibitors are actively applying artificial intelligence, big data analysis and other digital technologies to transform production operations. At the same time, the Canton Fair online platform will increase the use of digital technologies such as linking display, VR factory viewing, 3D photography and other intelligent attraction. From November last year to now, the number of visitors to the Canton Fair online platform has increased by 137% year-on-year.
