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Foreign
trade
Guangzhou
is located at the northern edge of Pearl River Delta, and is adjacent to
Hong Kong and Macao . It is China 's famous port for import/export trade.
Guangzhou port, the third biggest of China , is the main material
distributing center and the biggest hub port for international trade in
Pearl River Delta and South China . It now has commercial intercourse with
more than 500 ports in more than 170 countries and regions.
Various
commodities trade fairs held each year in Guangzhou can create huge
commercial opportunities. Among them the most representative is Chinese
Export Commodities Fair, also called Guangzhou Fair. Guangzhou Fair had
been founded in the spring of 1957 and is held in Guangzhou twice (in
spring and autumn) each year. Till now, it has a history of more than 40
years and is the comprehensive international trade pageant that has the
longest history, highest level, biggest scale, the fullest commodity
varieties, the most participants, and the best trade effect in China .
Collecting thousands of credible and powerful foreign trade companies,
production enterprises, research institutes, foreign-funded/self-owned
enterprises, and privately-run enterprise for exhibition, the Guangzhou
Fair has become one of the most representative trade symbols of Guangzhou.
Statistically,
since reform and opening, the annual average increase of Guangzhou 's
export trade is as high as 21%. In 2002, the total amount of import and
export of Guangzhou had already reached 27.931 billion US dollars
including $13.784 from export. The market for export covers more than 200
countries and regions. From 1979 to 2002, the foreign capital that has
been actually used is 29.453 billion US dollars, ranked as the second in
10 domestic big cities. Investors coming from more than 60 countries and
regions have established more than 8000 foreign-funded enterprises and
more than 2000 working institutions. By the end of the first half of 2005,
the total value of import/export trade is brought to 24.63 billion US
dollars, rising by 20% compared with the same period of 2004 (the same as
below), while the average increase of Guangdong is 17.5%. This is about
13.2% of the province's total value of import/export trade, ranked as the
third in Guangdong . In it, the import/export trade has assumed the
pattern of deficit, with the unfavorable marks about 0.97 billion US
dollars, 5% more than that of the first five months this year. Based on
analysis, many factors have contributed to this phenomenon and increasing
import of energy commodities is one of them. Statistically, about 0.84
billion US dollars of product oils have been imported into Guangzhou in
the first half year and as for import of steel products, the value is
about US $ 0.97 billion, all hovering over the average increase margins of
the like products in Guangdong. As Guangzhou trade develops forward, the
new trade system, in which processing technologies and hi-tech lead and
other related industries supplement, has been formed gradually.
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