(Yicai) May 6 -- Around 314,000 foreign buyers from 220 countries and regions attended this year’s spring leg of the bi-annual China Import and Export Fair, better known as the Canton Fair, demonstrating the Chinese market’s strong appeal.

The number of overseas buyers attending the Canton Fair’s spring edition rose 1.1 percent compared with the fall edition of last year, according to data released by the China Foreign Trade Center yesterday. Of them, 407 were leading enterprises, and 154 were overseas industrial and commercial institutions.

The spring edition of the Canton Fair 2026 ran from April 15 to yesterday. It had a total exhibition area of 1.55 million square meters, with 75,700 booths and over 32,000 exhibitors. It featured nine new special zones for emerging industries, such as smart wearables and consumer drones, with about 670 exhibitors and over 1,300 booths.

PingPong showcased an upgraded one-stop global payment solution that provides local account functions and supporting services to customers in emerging markets, such as Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, at the Canton Fair, Peng Zhong, director of product operations at the global payment platform, told Yicai.

My Robot Time brought its robot, programming, artificial intelligence, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education solutions to the Canton Fair this year, Zhong Zhigang, founder of the innovative robotics education company, said to Yicai.

“We presented brand-new AI education solutions for drones,” Zhong noted. “One is a lightweight AI programming education for drones, which has received extensive attention and high praise from overseas customers.”

AI programming solutions for drone software and hardware enable children with no programming background to quickly get started with writing programs to command drones to fly automatically, Zhong explained.

Cereblink Hangzhou Technology displayed a set of care service solutions for hemiplegia patients after they had a stroke. With the assistance of the company’s equipment, patients can complete actions with both hands, such as unscrewing bottle caps and cleaning, founder and Chairman Ma Sanguang told Yicai.

Cereblink’s equipment has been undergoing clinical trials in several large hospitals in China and has entered the approval process, Ma noted, adding that it is expected to be applied in fields such as embodied AI and wearable devices.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Futura Costaglione