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Canton Fair shows China’s strength as global manufacturing power amid pandemic: magazine

Abstract : The successfully-held 127th China Import and Export Fair, popularly known as Canton Fair, has demonstrated that China is "still going strong" as the world's factory even during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Economist magazine.

LONDON, June 25 (Xinhua) — The successfully-held 127th China Import
and Export Fair, popularly known as Canton Fair, has demonstrated that
China is “still going strong” as the world’s factory even during the
COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Economist magazine.

The virtual Canton Fair, the first for the decades-old trade fair,
concluded Wednesday in south China’s Guangdong Province. The 10-day fair
attracted nearly 26,000 domestic and foreign enterprises, with 1.8
million products exhibited.

China — which accounts for 28 percent of the global manufacturing,
nearly the size of the United States, Japan and Germany in combination
— is “the world’s factory, more than ever,” the London-based magazine
said.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s value-added
industrial output rose 4.4 percent year on year in May, up 0.5
percentage points from April, amid accelerated production.

The world’s largest developing country, the magazine said, should
firstly owe its strong performance to its industrial base “unparalleled
in breadth and depth,” which has enabled it to churn out products from
low-end footwear to high-end biotech.

The second advantage for the world’s most populous nation is “its own
vast market,” the magazine said, adding that “by one measure global
firms look even more wedded to China, despite the trade war.”

Although the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing
heavily on China without exception, Chinese firms are in better shape
than most elsewhere, thanks to the country’s success in containing the
spread of the novel coronavirus, the magazine said.

“Not only is China’s economy one of the few likely to grow this year;
its earlier resumption of industrial activity has allowed exporters to
gain market share while most other countries are still in varying states
of lockdown,” it added. Enditem

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