April 2016 Canton fair

The export exhibition area continues to be divided into 15 commodity categories, with 50 professional exhibition areas. There are 56,302 booths in the export exhibition area, with a total exhibition area of about 1.115 million square meters. There were 22,960 Chinese enterprises participating in the exhibition, 1,026 more than the previous one. There are 8,241 exhibitors in the first phase, 6,884 in the second phase and 7,835 in the third phase. According to enterprise types, there were 11,936 production enterprises, accounting for 52%. Foreign trade enterprises 8,578, accounting for 37%; 2,238 industrial and trade enterprises, accounting for 10%; Other enterprises 195, accounting for 1%; There are 13 scientific research institutes. According to enterprise attributes, there were 14,150 private enterprises, accounting for 62%. 4,415 foreign-funded enterprises, or 19 percent; 2,208 state-owned enterprises, accounting for 10 percent; 351 collective enterprises, accounting for 2%; Other enterprises 1836, accounting for 8%. Canton fair brand exhibition area is an important demonstration platform to encourage and guide enterprises to change the way of foreign trade development.