Canton Fair Pazhou Complex, was put into use as one of the fairgrounds in the 95th Canton Fair held in April 2004. Since 104th session of China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair), Pazhou Complex will be the ONLY venue for the 104th Canton fair divided into three phases.

Set in the beautiful environment of Pazhou island in southeast part of Guangzhou, Canton Fair Pazhou Complex boasts it comprehensive functions of exhibition, meeting and commercial negotiation. It is a modern architecture with perfect combination of efficiency, intelligence, humanization and ecology.

Scale: Pazhou Complex is by now the LARGEST exhibition centre in Asia and is also known as Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center. It covers a total land area of Pazhou Complex is 700000 m2 The first stage project of Pazhou Complex covers a ground area of 430,000 square meters with the structural area of 395,000 square meters. Sixteen exhibition halls are built, among which the land area of indoor exhibition halls is 160000m², and that of outdoor exhibition sites is 22000 m2.

Functions of the Exhibition Halls: CECF (Pazhou) Complex now has 16 indoor exhibition halls, which covers 160000 m2, and can be separated, into 10200 exhibition spaces. The outdoor exhibition site near the river covers 22000 m2. The exhibition hall of the ground floor is 13 meters high and that of the second floor is 8.89 to 19 meters high. It can provide a supreme high space for all kinds of exhibitions. In the five huge halls on the second floor, there are no poles, even when each hall covers about 10000 m2. There are only several poles in the eight halls on the ground floor, which is convenient for disposing the exhibition. The weight for each square meter to bear is five tons and 1.5 tons for the ground floor and the second floor. Besides, there are opening entrances and exits in both of the south and north sides, therefore the exhibition halls can be united for exhibitions as well as separated.