In order to help enterprises actively explore the ASEAN market, 2021 Ningbo Stationery and Gift Industry (Special Performance of ASEAN) Online Exhibition was successfully held recently, which was hosted by Ningbo Council for the promotion of international trade, co-organized by Ninghai Council for the promotion of international trade and undertaken by Yiwu Boyu Exhibition Service Company. This is the second online match-making activity between Ningbo and ASEAN countries, attended by 40 high-quality enterprises in the stationery and gift industry, and attracted 60 professional purchasers from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and other ASEAN countries. Through ZOOM platform, Chinese and foreign enterprises are matched accurately according to supply and demand, 225 "one-to-one" match-making negotiations were held. The negotiation atmosphere was warm and the response was good. The intended transaction volume was $1.8 million. During the three-day exhibition, exhibitors achieved exhibition and business match-making through online publicity at the procurement end, online accurate match-making, supply and demand information release, high-quality exhibits rotation and other forms.
This online exhibition has been publicized by more than 10 domestic mainstream media and forwarded by more than 100 foreign media, and it has been positively responded and fully affirmed by the participating enterprises. Manager Lin from Ningbo Tianhong stationery said that through online one-to-one video dialogue, he met three high-quality ASEAN customers and will actively do a good job in follow-up and service to strive for cooperation. Manager Wang from Ningbo Kejin import and export said that through online communication, he found that the products sought by foreign businessmen are the best-selling export products of his company, with a high degree of matching between supply and demand, and the foreign businessmen ship goods regularly every month, manager Wang will determine the price after carefully calculating the cost after the meeting. Manager Zhao, the head of foreign trade from Ningbo Yinzhou Siqi import and Export Co., Ltd., said that the match-making had a very good effect and hoped to continue to participate next year. The online exhibition has been fully prepared in advance, matched accurately according to the actual needs of both supply and demand, effectively promoted the match-making effect,built a trade exchange platform and channel under the new situation timely and effectively to help the enterprises get out of difficulties and seize the first opportunity in foreign trade.