Promotion for Alexandria Business Association of Egypt

The 127th Canton Fair held its Global Promotion on Cloud event for Alexandria, Egypt on June 10.

Many distinguished guests attended the event online, such as Ms. Zhao Liying, China's Consul General in Alexandria, Ms. Liu Chenzi, Deputy Director General of Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office, Mr. Ye Jijiang, Deputy Secretary General of Canton Fair and Vice President of China Foreign Trade Centre (Group), Mr. Mohamed Sabry, and Mr. Amgad El Attal, Chairman and Secretary General of Alexandria Business Association of Egypt.

Zhao Liying pointed out that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the friendship between Guangdong and Alexandria. Faced with COVID-19 pandemic, Guangdong proposed to provide medical assistance to Alexandria to help prevent COVID-19 outbreak.

Canton Fair is a business card for Guangdong Province and even China in foreign trade and economic cooperation. The 127th Canton Fair held online is an innovative measure taken by the Chinese government to deal with the global epidemic, which creates an efficient platform for trade and economic cooperation between exhibitors and buyers around the world and brings valuable opportunities.

Today, business people from both sides are gathering to discuss how to further strengthen our economic and trade relations. She hoped this online promotion would help Egyptian friends better understand and benefit from the upcoming 127th Canton Fair.

Ye Jijiang stressed that Canton Fair is a barometer and weathervane of China's foreign trade, and a window, epitome and symbol of China's opening-up to the outside world.

At present, COVID-19 epidemic is sweeping the world, and the world economy and trade are under severe impact. In order to maintain the openness, security and stability of international industrial chains and supply chains, expand opening-up and help Chinese and foreign enterprises explore the market, the Chinese government has decided to hold the 127th Canton Fair online on its official website from June 15 to 24.

The 127th Canton Fair will be integrated with Internet technology innovation. With the theme of "Canton Fair, Global Share", Canton Fair will strive to hold an especially wonderful "online Canton Fair" with special significance through special measures in this unprecedented time for Chinese and foreign traders.

He sincerely invited Egyptian enterprises to seize the opportunity of this virtual Canton Fair, register for the exhibition, look for suppliers and find new business opportunities, so as to jointly promote the development of China-Egypt economic and trade cooperation.

Mohamed Sabry said it was a great honor to attend the Canton Fair Promotion on Cloud on behalf of Alexandria Business Association of Egypt. Canton Fair is well-known in Egypt. Many Egyptian entrepreneurs are doing business in Guangzhou. The friendship between Egypt and China runs a long history and the two peoples have been friends for generations.

This Canton Fair held online is a rare opportunity for Egyptian buyers. It will not only help Egyptian buyers improve sourcing efficiency and save costs, but also set up a platform for Egyptian and Chinese entrepreneurs to communicate with each other and provide new opportunities for the development of bilateral economic and trade cooperation during the epidemic.

Alexandria Business Association of Egypt will encourage member enterprises to attend the 127th Canton Fair, pay close attention to the latest development of Canton Fair and determine their sourcing needs in advance, so as to make better use of the new Canton Fair online platform.

Representatives of China Foreign Trade Centre also introduced functions and characteristics of Canton Fair online platform and shared slides in the topic "Buyer's Canton Fair Journey" to demonstrate how to register, log in, watch live streaming, etc.

The event is novel in form and substantial in content, attracting more than 30 representatives of Egyptian business associations and buyers from major cities such as Alexandria and Cairo.

China-Egypt economic and trade relations enjoy a sound momentum of development. In 2019, imports and exports between China and Egypt amounted to USD 13.202 billion. Egypt is an important participant in the Belt and Road initiative. More than 2,500 Egyptian buyers attend each session of Canton Fair.

This promotion event will help Egyptian buyers to get familiar with main functions and operation procedures of Canton Fair online platform and help buyers to benefit more from it.