China’s global trade bazaar is going online to survive

The world’s largest trade fair is going online, and the salespeople of Ningbo MH Industry Co have been drafted in to a live-streaming boot camp.Carefully selected for English skills and winning personality, a few dozen budding influencers from the east coast textile firm are being drilled to undergo an experiment unprecedented in the history of the Canton Fair. The twice-yearly trade meeting in the southern megacity of Guangzhou usually sees more than 200,000 foreign buyers cram into its…

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