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The on-site activities of the 133rd China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) concluded on Friday in the southern city of Guangzhou, after seeing brisk business and record foot traffic, according to one of the fair's organizers.

The total exhibition area of this Canton Fair reached 1.5 million square meters, with 35,000 offline participating companies and a total of over 2.9 million visitors, all of which set a new historical record.

This Canton Fair attracted overseas buyers from more than 220 countries and regions to participate online and offline.

Among them, nearly 130,000 overseas buyers participated offline, and the number of buyers from countries along the "Belt and Road" accounted for about half of the total.

The on-site export deals of this Canton Fair reached 21.69 billion US dollars. The new thematic exhibition areas such as industrial automation and intelligent manufacturing, new energy and intelligent connected vehicles, and smart life were active, and innovative products and green low-carbon products were popular.

Many companies have said that they have received a large number of customer appointments to visit their factories, and they are expected to continue to make deals after the offline exhibition of the Canton Fair ends.