Canton Fair

{{short description|Trade fair in Guangzhou (formerly Canton), Guangdong, China}}

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The Canton Fair or China Import and Export Fair, is a trade fair held in the spring and autumn seasons each year since the spring of 1957 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.{{cite web|url=http://invitation.cantonfair.org.cn/en/index.aspx|title=Canton Fair Visitors Information|accessdate=2015-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018142655/http://www.invitation.cantonfair.org.cn/en/index.aspx|archive-date=2018-10-18|url-status=dead}} It is the oldest, largest, and the most representative trade fair in China.{{cite book|author1=Simon Harris|author2=Olli Kuivalainen|author3=Veselina Stoyanova|title=International Business: New Challenges, New Forms, New Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1JFFhhWv88C&pg=PA107|date=2 March 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-32098-7|page=107}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Its full name since 2007 has been China Import and Export Fair ({{zh|labels=no|s=中国进出口商品交易会}}), renamed from Chinese Export Commodities Fair ({{zh|labels=no|s=中国出口商品交易会}}).{{cite web|url=http://www.cantonfair.org.cn/en/|title=Official Canton Fair Website|publisher=cantonfair.org.cn|accessdate=2015-09-05}} The fair is co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of China and the provincial government of Guangdong Province and organized by China Foreign Trade Centre.{{Cite journal|last1=Jin|first1=Xin|last2=Weber|first2=Karin|date=2008-10-11|title=The China Import and Export (Canton) Fair: Past, Present, and Future|journal=Journal of Convention & Event Tourism|language=english|volume=9|issue=3|pages=221–234|doi=10.1080/15470140802325863|s2cid=153995277|issn=1547-0148}}