The 7th China (Guangzhou) International Footwear Expo (CantonSF) took its stage on schedule in Poly World trader center from Nov.2nd to 6th.

     The exhibiting place consists of two separated Halls of 20000sq exhibition area. About 612 exhibitors (more than 900 booths), from China’s major shoe producing areas, presented on the fair. Exhibits include fashion shoes, sports shoes, casual shoes, sandals, indoor shoes, slippers, safety shoes, functional shoes and etc. Comparing with the spring session, CantonSF - Autumn Session has made a great progress, not only the exhibiting area, but also the exhibitor volume.

To offer more preferable business environment, CantonSF hadmarched to its new hall---the Poly World Trade Center, next to Pazhou Complex. The new exhibition hall locates very next to the exit C & D of Pazhou station of Metro Line 2, which greatly save the time and trouble for visitors. Further more, the major professional shoes markets like BUYUN TIAN DI, XIN HUA NAN and XI CHENG surrounded around.

     Review on the whole fair, on-site arrangement fully reflected the organizing committee''''s mature organization style. The exhibition area is divided according to the exhibits, so that the buyers have a good approach to the exhibitors. Various activities were introduced in. The world renowned brand--Red Dragon Fly Group brings their blue and white porcelain series to the fair, which presents the aesthetic of Chinese shoe culture to the world with its own unique means and artistic language. Shoes Impression, a showcase of abstract shoes from a group of high students attracts more interest than ever before. And the Model Show greatly ignited the atmosphere there. The free shuttle bus, rest area, catering area and business center, along with the guiding direction in and out of the exhibition, made the center brims over with humanity atmosphere.

Another highlight of the show was The 4th HUIDONG Shoes Culture Festival and the Ladies Fashion Shoes Order Fair of China Production Base, which was brought by the HUIDONG delegation. It not only enriched the exhibits contents, but also paved the way for their shoes internationalized. During this five days on the fair, a lot of the visitors laid ordering on the Huidong exhibitors, which turned out to be the most encouraging motive for their presentation in the next session.   

While the whole world is experiencing setback for the moment, CantonSF is focusing on searching for new ways of development for the Chinese shoes enterprises, and making further progress to create advanced business trade platform and chances under the new international trade background. As China is the purchasing center of the international shoes trader, and Guangzhou becomes the first purchasing stop by taking more than half export volume of the whole country, the organizing committee indicates that, entrepreneurs and buyers home and abroad could have their faith in CantonSF, as well as the Chinese shoes industry.