Canton Fair Exhibitor List: Use the Official Search, Skip the PDF

Last fact-checked: November 10, 2026.

The Canton Fair exhibitor list you want is the one on the organiser's own site. The entry that returned HTTP 200 on 10 November 2026 is cantonfair.org.cn/en-US/exhibitor. A file on another domain that offers the list as a free PDF is not that page, and this article does not link one. If the official profile omits a field, leave the field blank. Filling it from a download is how last year's booth number survives into a week when that exhibitor may be elsewhere.

Which phase that short list belongs to is the dates and phases. The badge you still need, separately from the list, is the registration and badge guide. What you write when you reach the booth is the quotation card. Who you are allowed to pay is verify the supplier before payment.

What to copy off the profile

The 141st date page, updated 5 November 2026, is how you know the phase is real: 15-19 April, 23-27 April, and 1-5 May 2027. Lighting and tools are phase 1. Gifts and furniture are phase 2. Toys, apparel, and home textiles are phase 3. The buyer system is the account side. Neither one is a substitute PDF. A search for "home" will mix phase 2 decorations with phase 3 home textiles. Use the organiser's group, not the word on your retail shelf.

A previous booth is a rumour

A booth number from a previous session stays a rumour until the current profile repeats it. Build a list you can walk twice in one published day. The session page updated 5 May 2026 links 139th hall maps and leaves the 140th layout line as not yet available. Those links are not a 141st exhibitor list.

A lighting buyer, three weeks out

A buyer needs lighting, which the November page places on the phase 1 list, 15-19 April 2027. Before that week they open the official exhibitor entry, not a search result that offers a free download. They keep the search inside phase 1. A furniture name that only matched a loose word goes on a note for 23-27 April, or it goes nowhere. It does not join the 15 April morning.

For each profile they copy the company name, the booth, the category, and a contact, and only when the profile shows them. An empty booth cell stays empty. They write the session name at the top of the sheet, so a 139th number is not walked in 2027. They stop when the list can be seen once in the morning and revisited in the afternoon. The 9:30-18:00 line they plan inside is the negotiation time on the May 2026 session page. The November date page does not restate it.

The week they fly, they open the official page again. A row whose profile no longer loads drops off the walking order. A board that matches the written name is the conversation. A board that only matches a PDF is a stranger. In the evening the survivors become quotation cards: spec, unit, Incoterm, and the name that would invoice. Payment still waits on the supplier check.

The download that looked complete

A second buyer builds the trip from a free PDF on another domain. Booth numbers in that file do not appear when they later open the official page. Two of the companies are real. Their booths are not where the file said, or the file is a previous session. This page does not name the PDF site, and it does not host a list of its own.

Pitfalls

• Searching the open web for "exhibitor list PDF" and treating the first download as the organiser. The page that returned 200 on the fair's own domain is the entry this article will point at.
• Copying a booth number from the 139th hall-map links on the May 2026 page into a 141st walking order. Those links are labelled as the 139th. The November page has no hall plan to reconcile them with.
• Building the list from a brand on a catalogue photo when the profile names a different company. The invoice name is the one you write.
• Mixing phases in one morning because the search box was loose. Lighting is phase 1. Furniture is phase 2. A loose search will hand you both.
• Keeping a profile that went blank on the second check. A missing row is a reason to drop the appointment, not a reason to trust the PDF that still shows it.

Checklist before you fly

• The list was copied from the exhibitor page on cantonfair.org.cn, with the session written on the sheet.
• The category matches one published phase on the November page.
• Blank fields stayed blank. A PDF did not fill them.
• The list is short enough to walk twice on one day, and you reopened the official page in the week you travel.
• Badge, quotation, and payment stay later jobs. The list is only the walking order.

Once the short list exists, the day you walk it is the first-time routine. If the category is lighting or tools, start from phase 1. If it is furniture or gifts, start from phase 2. Apparel, toys, and textiles start from phase 3.

Questions about the list

Is there an official free PDF?

Not one this check could verify, and none is linked. Use the exhibitor page on the fair's domain. If the organiser later posts a file on that same domain, the session name on the file is what makes it usable.

Can I reuse last session's booth map?

Only as a memory. The visit order comes from the current profile. The 139th hall-map link on the older session page is a 139th drawing. The 140th layout line on that page does not open a map.

Does a place on the list mean they manufacture?

The list is a starting point. Who invoices, and whether a factory visit is warranted, are the checks after the booth conversation. A profile can be a factory, a trading company, or a name you still have to ask about. The pages opened for this check do not turn a search result into a factory audit.

A short list you want turned into a request can be drafted in the RFQ brief builder and sent through the RFQ form.

The fair logistics around this are badge and registration fees, whether a small buyer should go, opening hours and a day plan, and the Pazhou hall map.

Official sources

• Canton Fair exhibitor page.
• 141st exhibition dates, updated 5 November 2026.
• Canton Fair buyer system.