Promotion for New Zealand Successfully Held

The 127th Canton Fair held its Global Promotion on Cloud event for New Zealand on June 10.

Many distinguished guests attended the event online and made a speech, such as Mr. Huang Yuefeng, Commercial Counsellor of the Business Office of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in New Zealand, Mr. Zhou Shanqing, Deputy Secretary General of Canton Fair and Vice President of China Foreign Trade Centre (Group), Mr. Martin Thomson, Chair of New Zealand China Trade Association, and Mr. Don Graham, representative of loyal buyers.

Huang pointed out that the outbreak has cast a shadow over the cooperation between China and New Zealand. Fortunately, both China and New Zealand have taken resolute and forceful measures in response, taking responsibility for the safety and health of their own people and for global public health.

The 127th Canton Fair held online is an innovative measure to deal with the impact of the epidemic and help Chinese and foreign enterprises explore the market.

As strategic partners, China and New Zealand should support each other during hard times and jointly send a positive signal to the international community.

Zhou Shanqing said that the COVID-19 pandemic is still spreading around the world and the world economy and trade are under severe impact. Against the current special background, the Chinese government has decided to hold the 127th Canton Fair online in order to maintain the openness, security and stability of the international industrial chains and supply chains and expand opening-up.

This session of Canton Fair will be integrated with Internet technology innovation. It will display new products of Chinese and foreign enterprises online, create new business opportunities for Chinese and foreign enterprises for mutual benefit and win-win results, and realize the vision of "Canton Fair, Global Share".

The outbreak of the epidemic once again shows that mankind is a community with a shared future, and only solidarity and cooperation can tackle various global risks and challenges. Both China and New Zealand are countries that have shaken off the epidemic earlier. New Zealand's announcement of zero confirmed case on June 8 is inspiring and encouraging.

In the post-pandemic era, China and New Zealand should work together to bring economic and social development back on track. He invited New Zealand enterprises to register for the exhibition and further tap trade potentials of China and New Zealand.

Mr. Martin Thomson said New Zealand is increasingly looking for Made-in-China goods with good quality and reasonable prices.

He believed that the people of the world will eventually overcome the epidemic and look forward to the early lifting of border restrictions and the opening of business travel between China and New Zealand. This Canton Fair held online will provide a rare trading platform for New Zealand enterprises.

He encouraged New Zealand enterprises to seize the opportunity and actively negotiate cooperation possibility.

Don Graham, representative of William Aitken, one of New Zealand's largest food importers, shared his experience of attending Canton Fair.

He said he has attended every session of Canton Fair and started his business trips to meet suppliers and buy high-quality products. Canton Fair is an attractive trading platform with huge exhibition scale, reliable product quality and competitive price.

China has become New Zealand's largest trading partner, largest export market and largest import source. New Zealand is also an important source of buyers for Canton Fair, with more than 800 buyers attending each session. As the first market in the world to lift its lockdown, New Zealand's business community is full of expectations for Canton Fair to be held online.

Canton Fair holds this promotion event at the right time to let New Zealand buyers better adapt to new changes of online exhibition, and help more New Zealand traders to attend the exhibition.