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La
Foire de Canton pour aborder la Chine «dans l'anonymat»
La Liberté, 24 septembre 2004 (pdf, 1 p., 212 kb)
THE CANTON FAIR
The Chinese Export Commodities Fair (also known as “Canton
Fair”) is the largest exhibition in China, promoting Chinese-made
export products since 1957. The Canton Fair is held twice annually.
More than 100'000 export products are exhibited at 27'000 booths
on a total surface 170'000 sq.m. Each time, it attracts around 150'000
visitors from 200 countries. It is an ideal opportunity for Swiss
business men to identify potential suppliers from China, to source
products, to survey competitors and to eventually find promising
partners. The Canton Fair for years has been generating high export
volumes from China and today is well renowned.
CHINA FOREIGN TRADE CENTER
The Canton Fair is organised by “China Foreign Trade Center”
(CFTC). CFTC is an organisation directly under the “Ministry
of Commerce of the People's Republic of China” (MOFCOM, formerly
known as MOFTEC). Apart from the world-famous Canton Fair, CFTC
organizes more than 10 other, large-scale international exhibitions
in China each year.
THE SPEAKERS
Mr. CHEN Chaoren
Born in Guangdong Province in 1951, Mr Chen received university
degrees in economic and political sciences from South China Normal
University. He started his career as Deputy Section Chief of the
Human Resources Department at the Foreign Trade Bureau of Guangdong
Province. In various positions linked to the Canton Fair, Mr Chen
over the years acquired all the necessary experience and competencies
for successfully promoting the Canton Fair. Since 1996, Mr Chen
is the Vice Secretary General of the Canton Fair, Deputy Director
General of CFTC and Vice General Manager of CFTC Group.
Mr. Konrad Lammler
Born in Switzerland in 1953, Mr Lammler started his own business
as a Silver Jewelry Importer, at age 23, trading with Asian countries
such as Thailand. Since 1988, Mr Lammler is the owner of Populart
Ltd. that operates 23 retail stores in Switzerland under the name
of “CACHET”, employs a total staff of 200 and has been
expanding turnover at 7 to 10% annually. The “CACHET”
shops offering thousands of gift and handicraft items, mainly imported
from China and other Asian countries, Mr Lammler has been attending
the Canton Fair twice a year since 1990.
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