-- The 127th China Import and Export Fair, or Canton Fair, kicked off online Monday in south China's Guangdong Province.

-- The 10-day online fair has attracted around 25,000 enterprises and hundreds of thousands of global buyers, with 1.8 million products exhibited.

-- The fair will provide around-the-clock services including online exhibitions, promotion, business docking and negotiations.

-- With the online exhibition, the Canton Fair is expected to showcase the country's production resumption progress, inject impetus into global trade and help with the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

by Xinhua writers Cui Enhui, Wang Pan, Zhou Qiang and Ding Le

GUANGZHOU, June 15 -- The 127th China Import and Export Fair, or Canton Fair, kicked off online Monday, a first for the decades-old trade fair, in south China's Guangdong Province.

As a major global trade event so far this year, the 10-day online fair has attracted around 25,000 enterprises and hundreds of thousands of global buyers, with 1.8 million products exhibited.

A staff member with Tencent designs the website for the 127th China Import and Export Fair, or Canton Fair, held in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, May 27, 2020. (Xinhua)

"Hosting the online Canton Fair highlights China's unswerving resolve and confidence in advancing foreign trade and opening-up," said Bai Ming, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.

With the online exhibition, the Canton Fair is expected to showcase the country's production resumption progress, inject impetus into global trade and help with the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.

STRONG IMPETUS

SUMEC Group Corporation, based in Jiangsu Province, has participated in the Canton Fair for 42 consecutive years and developed from a simple foreign trade enterprise to a manufacturing service group focusing on trade and services, engineering contracting and investment and development.