The China Import and Export Fair, commonly known as the Canton Fair, was founded in 1957 and is held biannually in spring and autumn in Guangzhou, co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government. As China's longest-running, largest-scale, and most comprehensive international trade fair — known as "China's No.1 Exhibition" and the "barometer" of China's foreign trade — it runs in three phases covering advanced manufacturing, quality home goods, and lifestyle products, attracting tens of thousands of exhibitors and hundreds of thousands of overseas buyers each session.
