Under the situation that the COVID-19 pandemic is fueling the growth of the stay-at-home economy, joint with Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce and the United Office Platform of Global Chambers (GCP), European American Chamber of Commerce & Industry (EAcham) organized the 2021 Hubei Export Online Fair (Stay-at-home Economy Products Session - European & American Station) on July 21st- 28th, 2021 to actively build bridges between Chinese companies in different industries and overseas buyers from various countries to help them seize this business opportunity and promote international trade and cooperation. 

The chairwoman of EAcham, Ms. Gao Ying and the consultant of Spanish government, Mr. Jose Miguel Ramirez has attended the opening ceremony and gave opening speeches on July 28th. As the buyer representative, Mr. Ramirez extended appreciation for the joint effort from EAcham and the Hubei government to assist overseas buyers with across-border procurement during the pandemic period and expressed wishes for more multilateral exchange and cooperation between China Spain and the other countries.

 event has gathered about 40 high-quality suppliers from Hubei province and more than 50 international buyers from over 30 different countries and conducted more than 200 business matching meeting. Through one-on-one discussion, both sides talked in details and explored potential business cooperation with each other on a wide range of stay-at-home economy products, such as home appliance, smart home products, home textile, home decoration, household supplies, foods and beverage, baby products, etc. The online event has brought productive outcome and won popular recognition from both buyers and sellers. 

accessible to overseas buyers through the online exhibition “Trading Eyes Cloud” on EAcham official website and through the offline exhibition at GCP “6+365” Global Commodity Show Center in Shanghai National Exhibition and Convention Center for a year, making the overseas sourcing easier and more convenient.

With an aim to reducing the hit brought by the pandemic posed to both Chinese and overseas enterprises, this online fair manages to turn the challenge into opportunity and contributes to deepen multilateral trade cooperation and to build more diversified bonds between China and the other countries during the global pandemic period.