The domestic recruiting and promotion event held by China Foreign Trade Center (CFTC) and Zhuhai Bureau of Commerce for the upcoming 132nd China Import & Export Fair (Canton Fair) took place in Zhuhai on Sept 21.

Aiming to invite more enterprises to participate, the 132nd Canton Fair will commence online on Oct 15 and its matchmaking service will be extended until the opening of the 133rd session.

Wen Zhongliang, CFTC's deputy director, noted that the Canton Fair is currently the biggest international trade event in the world and China's best one-stop purchasing event with the most complete import and export categories. 

The 132nd Canton Fair is expected to gather lots of powerful and high-quality enterprises such as specialized, elaborate, characteristic, and emerging "little giant" (small and medium-sized), "single champion," national hi-tech, and China's time-honored enterprises. 

Matchmaking events involving multinational leading enterprises such as the French multinational retail group Auchan Retail and Indonesia's Kawan Lama Group are scheduled to enrich domestic market supply and upgrade domestic consumption.

Officials from Zhuhai Bureau of Commerce said that Zhuhai is a major node city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with an open trade and investment environment and broad consumption market. The promotion event is expected to help local business associations and trade enterprises access the domestic and global markets via the Canton Fair.