Canton Fair's upcoming Phase 2 to highlight innovative, green home life

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Canton Fair's upcoming Phase 2 to highlight innovative, green home life

2025-10-23 09:57 Last Updated At：16:07

The upcoming Phase Two of the 138th Canton Fair will highlight quality home life, providing a one-stop home furnishing procurement platform that integrates innovative designs with green and low-carbon concepts to global buyers.

The second phase of the event, officially known as the China Import and Export Fair, is set to open on Thursday in Guangzhou and features 15 exhibition zones hosting approximately 25,000 booths expected to display household products, gifts, decorations, building materials, and furniture.

Over 10,000 enterprises are expected to participate in the second phase, including more than 2,900 high-quality and specialized exhibiting companies, emerging "Little Giant" companies known for precision and innovation, single-product manufacturing champions, and national high-tech enterprises.

The five-day first phase of the 138th Canton Fair ended on Sunday with significant increases in 12 key metrics, including a new high in the number of overseas buyers and leading participating companies.

Focusing on advanced manufacturing, the first phase attracted over 157,000 offline overseas buyers from 222 countries and regions, representing a 6.3 percent increase compared to the previous edition.

The second phase of the Canton Fair is scheduled to run through Oct 27, and its third phase is set from Oct 31 to Nov 4.

Established in 1957, the Canton Fair is held twice a year in spring and autumn. It is the longest-running of several comprehensive international trade events in China, and has been hailed as the barometer of China's foreign trade.

China launches Shenzhou-23 manned spaceship

China's Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwest on Sunday, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station.

The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, lifted off from the launch site at 23:08 Beijing Time (15:08 GMT).

The crew members consist of mission commander Zhu Yangzhu, and fellow astronauts Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying, who is also the first astronaut from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

In another notable first, one of the crew members is set to undertake a year-long stay aboard the space station, double the usual duration of previous Shenzhou missions.

After entering orbit, the Shenzhou-23 spaceship will perform a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the radial port of the space station core module Tianhe, forming a combination of three modules and three spacecraft.

Shenzhou-23 marks the 40th flight of China's manned spaceflight program and the seventh manned flight mission since the Tiangong space station entered its application and development phase in late 2022.