The expo has a dedicated space for members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and China's trade partners in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas. Exhibits include cultural and tourism offerings and typical products of these countries.

Guangdong delivers 22 percent of the country's total foreign trade and plays an important role in the stable development of China's trade, said the expo's organizing committee.

To support the country's new dual-circulation development pattern, the expo has, for the first time, set up an exhibition area for foreign trade bases in Guangdong province.

The ancient Huangpu Port is located in the village of Shiji in Haizhu district, Guangzhou, and has witnessed the prosperity brought by the development of the Maritime Silk Road. CHINA DAILY

More than 40 foreign trade bases are participating. They include a bags and suitcases base in Shiling town in Guangzhou's Huadu district; a lighting products base in Guzhen town in the city of Zhongshan and a stainless-steel products base in Xinxing county in the city of Yunfu.

The foreign trade bases exhibition is displaying exhibits online and offline. It will also hold livestreams to aid communication between participating companies and global buyers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

More countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative are using the digital economy as an engine to drive the upgrading and interconnectivity of information technology infrastructure, according to the expo's organizing committee.