第124届广交会召开闭幕新闻发布会
第124届广交会闭幕新闻发布会11月4日在广州广交会展馆举行。广交会副秘书长、新闻发言人、中国对外贸易中心副主任徐兵向与会的境内外媒体介绍了本届广交会总体运行情况。
徐兵说,第124届广交会以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导,全面贯彻落实党的十九大和十九届二中、三中全会精神。在党中央、国务院的亲切关怀下,在商务部、广东省人民政府的高度重视和坚强领导下,在全国各地商务部门的大力支持下,经过全体与会人员的共同努力,本届广交会总体运行平稳,圆满完成各项工作任务。
徐兵介绍,境外采购商与会数量微降。第124届广交会采购商到会189,812人,来自215个国家和地区,比2017年秋交会同比下降1.11%。
各大洲采购商到会人数分别为:亚洲105,692人,占55.68%;欧洲35,767人,占18.84%;美洲27,696人,占14.59%;非洲14,547人,占7.66%;大洋洲6110人,占3.22%。
各大洲到会人数方面,非洲增长1.15%,美洲下降0.59%,亚洲下降0.82%,欧洲下降2.93%,大洋洲下降2.95 %。
2017年我国十大贸易伙伴国家和地区到会人数占到会总人数的63.71%。“一带一路”沿线国家和地区采购商到会84,578人,占比44.56%,同比增长0.16%。
到会人数排名前20的国家和地区占到会总人数的64.76%,同比提高3.85个百分点。到会人数前10位的国家和地区为:中国香港、美国、印度、韩国、泰国、俄罗斯、中国台湾、马来西亚、日本和印度尼西亚。
在2018年最新公布的世界零售商250强企业中有110家到会,排名前10位的有9家,分别为沃尔玛、好市多、克罗格、施瓦茨、家乐福、家得宝、沃尔格林、亚马逊和阿尔迪。共有来自6个国家的8家跨国企业参加跨采服务,包括美国中央采购公司、史泰博、生牌、芬兰KESKO集团、法国瓯尚、韩国乐扣乐扣株式会社、印尼长友集团、西班牙Taurus Group等著名连锁企业。
到会超过10次的老采购商49863人,同比基本持平。
到会采购商中,电子及家电类占40.2%,日用消费品类占31.3%,家居装饰品类占28.28%,礼品类占26.82%,机械类占26.37%。
出口成交微降,高质量发展步伐加快。本届广交会累计出口成交2,064.94亿元人民币(折合298.6亿美元),同比2017年秋交会下降1%。
机电商品仍排在成交首位。机电商品成交161.87亿美元,占总成交额的54.2%;轻工产品成交72.99亿美元,占总成交额的24.5%;纺织服装成交15.14亿美元,占总成交额的5.1%。
品牌展区成交良好。共成交94.5亿美元,占总成交额的31.7%。
对“一带一路”沿线国家出口成交96.3亿美元,增长2.7%,占总成交额的32.3%。
成交订单中,中短单占比居高不下,长单占比依然偏低。3个月以内的短单占44.6% ,3-6个月的中单占30.7%,6个月以上的长单占24.7%。
徐兵表示,面对严峻复杂的外部环境,各参展企业充分发挥广交会的综合平台作用,不断增强综合竞争力。广大参展企业大力实施市场多元化战略,在巩固传统市场的同时,努力开拓新兴市场,不断优化市场格局。参展企业坚持创新驱动,在新产品、新技术、新商业模式、新出口市场方面实现突破,自主品牌、高端智能、绿色环保、个性化定制产品不断涌现,高质量发展步伐加快,“中国制造”正向“中国质造”和“中国创造”蝶变。
徐兵说,广交会全方位对外开放平台作用更加突出。本届广交会在更高层次上运用两个市场、两种资源,不断拓展服务功能和内涵,更加彰显广交会“卖全球买全球”的全方位对外开放平台作用。一是促进出口的功能继续增强。本届广交会以品牌评审为契机,进一步优化展区、展品和参展主体结构,全面提升参展质量;按照“创新、专业、精准、精细”的理念广邀全球采购商与会,确保采购商来源地的多元化和全球化,有力促进了外贸出口。虽然现在出口渠道日益多元化,但广交会依然是中国企业开拓国际市场、扩大出口不可替代的最重要平台。二是扩大进口的作用继续增强。本届广交会进口展共有来自34个国家和地区的636家企业参展,集中展示国际品牌、高端智能、高科技含量以及适合中国市场需求的产品。境外参展企业表示,广交会进口展是开拓中国市场的“快速通道”,与中国企业达成了合作意向,将业务范围延伸到中国各大城市和连锁超市。三是结识新客户的重要渠道。本届广交会新采购商与会踊跃,共有77733人,同比增长2.34%。广交会已经成为中国和国际参展企业结识新客户的主渠道,部分企业70%以上的客户都是通过广交会结识的,为企业后续出口提供源源不断的客户资源。四是产业推介及贸易配对活动效果更好。本届广交会为20个省市举办105场地方特色产业推介会和各类贸易配对活动,组织全国7大地方产业集群集中参展,充分利用广交会庞大的国际采购商资源,推动地方特色产业、优秀企业和优秀品牌走向世界,有效促进了地方开放型经济发展,带动各地方对外开放,受到地方政府、企业和采购商的普遍欢迎。五是设计创新引领转型升级。107家参展设计机构共接洽19,334人,其中可持续跟进的项目占35.4%,显示出参展企业和设计机构的对接踊跃。共有629家企业的1214件产品参评2018年广交会出口产品设计奖,77家企业的100件产品分获至尊金奖、金奖、银奖及铜奖,获奖产品吸引了参展商、采购商、新闻媒体和社会各界的广泛关注,获奖企业展位咨询、洽谈的采购商数量明显增多,促进了出口成交。广交会通过设计展示、设计对接和出口产品设计奖,有效引导企业提升产品设计和创新能力,助力企业树立品牌形象、培育外贸竞争新优势。六是高端资讯服务作用不断增强。本届广交会共策划组织了156场活动,其中主题论坛20场,涵盖广交会国际贸易发展论坛、贸易风险防控、供采对接、知识产权保护、潮流趋势等领域。会议论坛结合当前热点和行业发展特点,为企业带来具有前瞻性和战略价值的高端资讯以及实用性强的解决方案,受到与会企业的充分肯定。
徐兵介绍,广交会知识产权保护为开放创新提供支撑。本届广交会共受理知识产权投诉案件382宗,509家参展企业被投诉,264家企业最终被认定涉嫌侵权。与上届相比,受理案件减少39宗,被投诉企业总数减少24家,被认定涉嫌侵权企业总数减少5家。共受理贸易纠纷投诉案件41宗,比上届减少8宗,其中调解成功24宗,有3宗当场履行完和解协议。
广交会高效的知识产权保护工作,推动形成“崇尚创新精神,尊重知识产权”的良好营商环境,增强了参展企业的知识产权保护意识,提升了广交会作为全球知名品牌的信用度,向世界传递了中国鼓励创新、依法依规严格保护知识产权的坚定姿态。
智慧广交会服务持续完善。本届广交会继续推进“智慧广交会”建设,为参展企业和采购商提供展前、展中、展后全过程的智慧服务,智慧服务水平进一步提升。实现高速无线网络全馆覆盖,为展客商带来更为流畅、稳定的上网体验。大数据看板人流热力图覆盖全馆,以数据全面展示广交会各方面的情况,为展客商与会提供实时数据参考。增设广交会微信服务号英文界面自动识别功能,为采购商提供便捷的线上服务。优化展商展品查询系统,截至11月3日,展商展品查询系统有213个国家和地区、超过22万访客关注。“品牌橱窗”专栏广受关注,助力企业形象推广,有效推动品牌企业开拓国际市场。
绿色发展成效显著。本届广交会巩固绿色发展成果,扎实推进《广交会绿色发展2.0计划》,在绿色展位奖品牌传播、平台搭建、材料使用、设计创新、标准制定和产业联动等方面加大力度,绿色发展质量和效益全面提升。举办广交会绿色展位奖颁奖仪式,为80家第123届绿色展位奖获奖企业进行颁奖。开展第124届广交会绿色展位奖评选活动,共有521个特装展位申报评选,微信投票总票数达到95万票。广交会展馆环境进一步改善,展览固体废物与上届相比继续减少,绿色展位搭建成本降低,绿色展位结构安全系数提高,现场展示效果进一步提升。
徐兵说,本届广交会有效带动贫困地区外贸和经济发展。共有贫困地区参展企业668家,涉及45个展区15大类商品,其中贫困地区特色产品展区共有22个交易团的157家企业参展,展位规模位居前三的是食品、男女装、医药及医疗保健类产品。现场调研问卷显示,贫困地区特色产品展区绝大多数参展企业对参展效果表示满意,并希望继续参展。参展企业表示,通过广交会结识了客户、开阔了视野,了解到行业和国际市场的最新趋势和需求信息,更有信心和条件推出竞争力强的特色产品,有针对性地开拓国际市场,带动贫困地区外贸和经济发展。
徐兵表示,本届广交会加强了展位使用管理,共处理了34家违规使用展位的企业,通过取消参展资格、相应扣减所属交易团一般性展位基数、取消所属交易团表彰资格、在《广交会通讯》上通报处理结果等有力举措,有效保证了广交会质量和洽谈秩序。牢固树立安全发展理念,按照人防、技防、物防并举的思路,加强内外安保力量联动协作,完善各类安保方案及预案,严格落实各项安保措施,筑牢全面安全防控体系,以更严要求、更高标准、更实措施全力保障大会安全。本届广交会运行安全平稳,无重大治安刑事案件、暴恐袭击、火灾、食物中毒、重大传染病疫情、交通瘫痪等事件发生,为广大中外客商洽谈成交创造了安全祥和的环境。
徐兵表示,在改革开放40周年之际举办的本届广交会,受到了境内外媒体的高度关注,共有82家境内外媒体的360名记者与会报道。人民日报、新华社、中央电视台、大公报、文汇报、路透社等境内外新闻媒体纷纷开设专栏专版,从改革开放的高度,围绕广交会的重点、亮点和作用,深入采访参展企业、采购商、各地商务主管部门和商协会,全面及时报道广交会动态和亮点;商务微新闻、新华网联合广交会新闻中心共同设立广交会新闻访谈间,开设“广交会故事”专栏,通过典型企业和人物专访的形式,对广交会扩大出口、促进进口,促进改革开放、推动转型升级和高质量发展进行了深度报道;以“广交世界 开放共赢”为主题的“对话广交会”活动,邀请7位境内外嘉宾,向世界100多位国际知名财经媒体、财经智库、财经企业代表,分享了有高度、有深度、有温度的广交会故事。上述活动和报道,有效阐释了广交会的历史、地位和作用、传播了广交会声音,奏响了改革开放的时代强音,为广交会的成功举办营造了良好舆论氛围。在广交会上发生的精彩故事,犹如一个个时空坐标,必将激励广交人在新时代继续书写广交会传奇,创造广交会奇迹。
The concluding press conference of the 124th session of the Canton Fair was held in the Canton Fair Complex on Nov 4. Xu Bing, Deputy Secretary General and Spokesperson of the Canton Fair and Deputy Director General of China Foreign Trade Centre, introduced the general situation of this session to journalists from home and abroad.
Xu introduced that in the 124th Canton Fair we have followed the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and implement the spirit of the 19th CPC Congress, the second and third plenary sessions of the 19th CPC Central Committee. With the attention and care of the central government, the State Council, under the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce and Guangdong Province, and with the support of local commerce departments and concerted efforts of all the staff, we’ve completed all the tasks and the fair was carried out smoothly.
Xu introduced that buyer attendance of the 124th Canton Fair showed a slight decline and totaled 189,812 from 215 countries (regions), down by 1.11% over the 122nd session.
In terms of buyer attendance of all continents in descending order, the number of buyers from Asia totaled 105,692, taking up 55.68% of the total; Europe 35,767, accounting for 18.84%; Americas 27,696, accounting for 14.59%; Africa 14,547 with 7.66% share, and Oceania 6,110 with 3.22% share.
Compared with the 122nd session, buyer attendance from Africa increased by 1.15%, from Americas decreased by 0.59%, from Asia decreased by 0.82%, from Europe decreased by 2.93%, and Oceania down by 2.95%.
Buyer attendance from China’s top 10 trading partner countries and regions in 2017 accounted for 63.71% of the total. The number of buyers from countries in the “Belt and Road” Initiative stood at 84578, up by 0.16% and accounting for 44.56% of the total.
Buyer attendance of the top 20 countries and regions accounted for 64.76% of the total, 3.85 percentage points higher over the last year. The top 10 countries and regions in terms of buyer attendance are Hong Kong, the United States, India, South Korea, Thailand, Russia, Taiwan Province, Malaysia, Japan and Indonesia.
Altogether 110 out of the Top 250 Global Retailers in 2018 attended the Fair. Among them there were 9 of the Top 10 retailers: Wal-Mart, Costco, Kroger, Schwartz, Carrefour, Home Depot, Wal-green, Amazon, and Aldi. 8 multinational companies from 6 countries participated in the Multinational Sourcing Service, including Harbor Freight (the US), Lifetime Brands (the US), Staples (the US), Kesko Group (Finland), Auchan Retail (France), Lock& Lock (South Korea), Kawan Lama Group (Indonesia), and Taurus Group (Spain).
Regular buyers with more than 10 times’ attendance totaled 49,863, roughly the same over the last year.
Buyer attendance proportion in terms of industries is: electronics and household electrical appliances accounting for 40.2% of the total, daily consumer goods 31.3%, home decorations 28.28%, gifts 26.82%, and machinery 26.37%.
The export transaction shows slight decline and steps for quality development were accelerated. The accumulated export transaction of this session totaled 206.494 billion RMB Yuan (or 29.86 billion US dollars), a decrease of 1% over the 122nd session.
Machinery and electrical products contributed to the highest transaction, at 16.187 billion USD, accounting for 54.2%; transaction volume of light industrial products stood at 7.299 billion USD, accounting for 24.5% of the total; textile and garment 1.514 billion USD, accounting for 5.1%.
The transaction volume in brand zone reached 9.45 billion US dollars, accounting for 31.7% of the total.
The transaction with the “Belt and Road” countries totaled 9.63 billion dollars, a year-on-year increase of 2.7% and accounting for 32.3% of the total.
Of all orders, the proportion of mid- and short-term orders was high while that of long-term orders was still low. 44.6% are short-term orders within 3 months, 30.7% are mid-term orders covering 3-6 months and 24.7 % are long-term orders over 6 months.
Xu introduced that facing severe and complicated external environmental, exhibitors made an active use of Canton Fair’s role of a comprehensive platform to enhance their competitiveness. Exhibiting companies advanced their market diversification strategy and optimized the mix by consolidating traditional markets and exploring emerging ones; focused on innovation-led development and made breakthroughs in new product, new technology, new business model and new export destinations. They’ve come up with self-owned brands, high-end, intelligent, green, and tailored products and made faster moves in quality development. “Made in China” is transforming to “Created in China” and “quality in China”.
Xu pointed out that Canton Fair’s role as an all-round platform for opening up has become more outstanding. We’ve made a better use of domestic and international markets and resources; we have enriched Canton Fair’s service function and content to play its role of a platform to “buy from and sell to the world”. Firstly, enhanced function to increase export. Seizing the opportunity of brand review, we’ve optimized the structure of exhibitors, products and sections to improve the quality of exhibition. According to the concept of “innovation, specialization, targeted and delicate”, we’ve invited global buyers to attend the fair and diversify the buyer origins to boost export. Despite the fact that we have more and more diversified export channels, Canton Fair is still the most important and irreplaceable platform for Chinese companies to explore the global market and expand export. Secondly, enhanced function of import promotion. The International Pavilion in this session has attracted 636 exhibiting companies from 34 countries and regions; many quality overseas exhibitors have participated with high-end brand and products of high technological content which meet the demands of the Chinese market. According to overseas exhibitors, the Canton Fair International Pavilion is a “fast track” to develop the Chinese market, and they have reached cooperation content with Chinese companies and expanded their business to big cities and chain stores in China. Thirdly, an important channel for meeting new customers. During this session, the number of new buyers amounted to 77733, a year-on-year increase of 2.34%. Canton Fair serves as the main channel for Chinese exporters to meet their clients; for some exhibitors, more than 70% of their clients are known through the Canton Fair, a sufficient resource for their future export. Fourthly, better results achieved in promoting local industry with features. At this Canton Fair we’ve organized 105 promotion conferences of local feature industries and trade matchmaking activities for 20 provinces and cities. We’ve also organized 7 regional industrial clusters to participate and made use of the vast amount of Canton Fair buyers, encouraged local featured industries, companies and brands to go global. These efforts have promoted the development of open regional economy and received great appraisal from these localities, exhibitors and buyers. Fifthly, lead transformation and upgrading with innovation and design. In this session 107 design agencies received 19334 customers /projects, 36% of which are projects to follow up, showing active exchange with exhibitors and design agencies. 629 companies participated in the competition for CF Awards with 1214 products; 100 products of which won the CF Bronze, Silver, Gold and Best of the Best Awards. The awards winning products have attracted huge attention from exhibitors, buyers, media and society, and witnessed increasing negotiation and export. Through design display, design matchmaking and Canton Fair Design Awards, Canton Fair has been leading and encouraging exhibitors to enhance their product design and innovation capacity, create their brand image and cultivate new advantages in foreign trade competition. Sixthly, high-end information function was enhanced. In this session we held 156 conferences and forums, including 20 thematic forums, covering fields such as Canton Fair international trade development forum, trade risk prevention and control, supplier and buyer matchmaking, IPR, fashion and trend, etc; a total sum of over 3000 audiences attended these forums. Canton Fair forums combined the current trend and industrial development and brought forward high-end information with insight and strategic value for companies as well as pragmatic solutions, which were well received by the audience.
Xu stated that in this session we’ve continued to provide support to innovation-driven development through IPR protection. The Canton Fair Complaint Station handled 382 IPR cases, with 509 exhibitors filed and 264 determined as constituting alleged infringement. Compared with the previous session, the number of cases handled decreased by 39, the number of filed enterprises decreased by 24, the number of alleged infringement down by 5. The Station also dealt with 41 trade disputes, 8 less than the last session; 24 of them were successfully solved after mediation and in 3 disputes the mediation agreement was implemented onsite by both parties.
Canton Fair’s efficient IPR protection has contributed in forming a sound business environment of “value for innovation and respect for IPR”, enhanced the exhibitors’ awareness of IPR protection, and improved Canton Fair’s credibility as a world famous brand. Canton Fair’s IPR protection demonstrated to the world Chinese government’s resolute position of IPR protection by laws and regulations and of innovation encouragement.
Smart Canton Fair services were constantly improved. In this session we continue to advance “Smart Canton Fair” to provide intelligent services for exhibitors and buyers before, during and after the show; our intelligent services have been further improved. We’ve achieved full coverage of wifi network in the Complex to provide more smooth and stable surfing experience. The crowd heat map covers the entire venue, showing Canton Fair in all respects in data and providing data reference for attendees. We’ve developed automatic recognition function in the English interface of Canton Fair Wechat account, providing more convenient online services for buyers. We’ve also upgraded the Exhibitor & Product system; by Nov 3, the system has been visited over 220,000 times by people from 213 countries and regions. Highlight products were widely welcomed, which promoted brand companies to promote their images and develop global market.
Remarkable achievements in green development. Xu mentioned that in this session we’ve consolidated the progress made in green development and pressed ahead Canton Fair Green Development Plan 2.0. More efforts have been made in the brand promotion of green booths, platform building, material usage, design and innovation, standard setting and industrial coordination of green development to improve the quality and turnover of green development. We held the selection of Green Booth Awarding Ceremony to award 80 winners of green booths in the 123rd Canton Fair; launched the selection of Green Booth Award for the 124th session and 521 custom-built booths applied for it, and we received a total of 950000 votes on Wechat. The environment of the Complex has been further improved: the amount of solid waste has been reduced; that of dust has been constantly declining. The cost of building green booths has also been significantly reduced, structural security of green booths improved and onsite display results enhanced.
Xu said that the 124th session has promoted the foreign trade and economic development of poor areas. In this session, we welcomed 668 exhibitors from poor areas, covering 15 product categories and 45 sections; in the Traditional Chinese Specialty section, 157 exhibitors from 22 trading delegations participated. The top 3 largest topics are food, men and women’s wear, and medicines and health care products. Our survey in this section shows that most exhibitors are satisfied with the effect of their participation and wish to participate in the future. Through Canton Fair they have met many customers, broadened horizon, known the latest market information and demand; they have more confidence and resource to come up with competitive feature products and will develop overseas markets in a targeted manner to boost the economic and social development of poor areas.
Xu said that in this session we have strengthened our regulations on booth usage, dealt with 34 companies in violation of such regulations. By disqualifying exhibitors, deducting the number of general booths of the trading delegation that the violating exhibitor is in, disqualifying this trading delegation for being commended, and publishing the result of such punishment on Canton Fair Bulletin, we’ve maintained the quality and negotiating order of Canton Fair. We’ve also established the concept of secure development. According to the multi-pronged approach of security ensured by people, technology and objects, we’ve strengthened coordination of security forces of our own and those out-sourced, bettered many kinds of emergency precaution plans, implemented security measures, established a comprehensive security and precaution system, and strived to guarantee security with stricter requirements, higher standards and more solid measures. This session was held smoothly and securely, with no incidents of criminal or public order cases, terrorist attack, fire, food poisoning, major epidemic, or traffic congestion. We created a secure and comfortable environment for customers from home and abroad to negotiate and achieve orders.
Xu mentioned that this session was held during the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up and received much attention from media from home and abroad. 360 journalists from 82 media attended and reported on the fair. People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, takungpao.com, wenweipo.com, Reuters have set up special columns or pages to report Canton Fair’s dynamics and highlights based on their interviews with exhibitors, buyers, local commerce departments and chambers of commerce in a comprehensive and timely manner. MOFCOM Wechat News and Xinhuanet have worked with Canton Fair Press Center to open a Canton Fair news interview room and a special column of “Canton Fair Story”, interviewed key companies and personnel and produced in-dept report on Canton Fair’s efforts to expand export and import, promote reform and opening up, transformation and upgrading and quality development. In “Canton Fair Dialogue”, we invited 7 panelists from home and abroad to share with more than 100 world famous financial media, think tanks and enterprises their stories with Canton Fair, stories of height, depth and personal experience. The above activities and reports echoed the beat of reform and opening up and created a sound public opinion atmosphere for the success of Canton Fair. Stories happened at the fair, like sets of coordinates in time and space, will motivate us to continue writing the Canton Fair legend in the new era and create Canton Fair miracle.