China Import and Export Fair. Founded on April 25th, 1957, it is held in Guangzhou every spring and autumn, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, and undertaken by China Foreign Trade Center. It is a comprehensive international trade event with the longest history, the highest level, the largest scale, the most complete variety of goods, the largest number of buyers, the widest distribution of countries and regions and the best trading effect in China, and is known as the "first exhibition in China".