Market insights
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China's economy has dramatically developed a lot in recent years, and the birth of a thriving middleclass have fueled the demand for quality and gourmet products. Imports of food products are growing at arate of 15% year, and, despite the economic crisis that is affecting demand in Western markets, allprojections suggest that China will keep its import figures steady.
• China is now the largest world market for foodstuff consumption, and
China's imported food & wine market isblooming.
Market Analysis
China is a major foodstuff producer, as well as a major grain consumer with the largest population of 1.4 billion people.China is also one of the countries that enjoys the highest world economic growth rate.With the development of China's economy and the improvement of people's living standards, the diet habits and dietarystructure of native Chinese people have changed tremendously. Nowadays, Chinese people not only work hard for havingenough to eat and wear, but are also in pursuit of food nutrition, health standards, processing techniques, packingpresentation, and consuming taste and brands. There is a huge domestic foodstuff market in China with strongcompetition. Upon entrance to the World Trade Organization, Chinese food service companies face a great pressure fromdomestic competitors, as well as from those international business giants.Guangdong, the biggest province in economic and agriculture development and rich in food resources, leads Chinesefood export. However, the local organic & green food supply is still emerging at its initial stage. The Pearl River Delta, withGuangzhou at its heart, is the biggest food logistics base and consumer market. Its economy influences South China,South East Asia, and even the whole world.
Advantages of Guangzhou: A great dynamic international business hub
There is a saying: “Guangzhou is a paradise for gourmet”, which proves its outstanding contribution to the foodstuff industry. As a financial center with 350 internationally recognized supermarket branches and about 150,000 retail dealers,more than 600,000 distributors of foodstuff & agricultural products choose to settle in Guangzhou. Thus, no wonder thattraders from all over the world have headquartered their national general agents and wholesale dealers here.According to government sources, Guangzhou has a permanent population of 12,000,000, and it served 9,856,000,000visitors every year, including 3,120,000 foreigners. There are 2,560 tourist hotels and guesthouses, and about 250 star-rated hotels (assessed by National Tourism Administration).Guangzhou is neighbored to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia countries. Its convenient transport systemspreads the foodstuff commercial network all over the world. With the help of local government, Guangzhou sets a perfectbase for domestic and international trading enterprises.
The Highlight of Interfood China 2011
The service core of Interfood China 2011 is meant to fit professional visitor requirements, and to guarantee fullsatisfaction to exhibitors using our services. The professional buyers come from: organic foodstuff corporate chains fromall over the country, hotels, motels, clubs, entertainment venues, western restaurants, leading supermarkets,professionals on foodstuff commodities, foreign buyers in China, foodstuff produce and process base provider firms,industry associations, embassies from various countries, and foodstuff manufacturing companies, agencies, distributors,professional institutions. Local and foreign technicians are our special guests at the show.
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