100,000+ contactable Chinese suppliers: six major China trade expos now covered
If you source from China, you know that the fastest way to shortlist trustworthy factories is to look at who exhibits at China's major trade expos. Exhibiting costs money and preparation — a company that bothers to show up at a serious export expo is usually an active exporter, not a reseller or a shell.
We've now crossed a milestone: 100,000+ contactable Chinese suppliers in our base. A big part of that push comes from six of China's biggest trade expos — roughly 32,000 exhibitors, nearly all reachable with contact details you can use right away.
Newly added: CIFTIS, ECF and CHTF
Three expos newly added to our base, each representing a different slice of China's export economy:
- CIFTIS (China International Fair for Trade in Services), Beijing — China's national services-trade platform. 21,345 exhibitors, dominated by Beijing-based companies plus nationwide participation.
- ECF (East China Fair), Shanghai — China's largest regional import-export expo and the heart of East China's export manufacturing. 4,571 exhibitors, concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Fujian and Shandong.
- CHTF (China Hi-Tech Fair), Shenzhen — China's national showcase for high-tech commercialization. 1,493 exhibitors in consumer electronics, AI & robotics, semiconductors and optics, mostly from Shenzhen and Guangdong.
Previously indexed: CIIF, CIIE and CBD
Three more major expos already in our base, worth covering here:
- CIIF (China International Industry Fair), Shanghai — China's leading industrial/equipment expo, 2,015 exhibitors across machine tools, automation, industrial robotics and new materials.
- CIIE (China International Import Expo), Shanghai — China's flagship import expo, 1,671 exhibitors in consumer goods, medical devices and services.
- CBD (China Building & Decoration Fair), Guangzhou — Asia's largest building-materials and home-furnishing expo, 1,476 exhibitors in sanitary ware, doors & windows, hardware and smart home.
Why these exhibitors matter
Most of these exhibitors are reachable with contact details — these are factories you can actually contact, not bare name lists. Just as important, they share one trait: they paid and prepared to exhibit at a major China trade expo. That's a strong signal they're active exporters actively looking for overseas orders — not shells that exist on paper.
What this means for you
If you're an overseas buyer or sourcing team, this gives you a fast, structured shortcut:
- Find verified-active suppliers: exhibiting at a serious expo is a strong signal a factory is an active exporter, not a trading shell.
- Source across categories: industrial goods (CIIF), consumer goods (CIIE, ECF), high-tech (CHTF), building materials (CBD) — one base, all covered.
- Get contactable leads: when you search China suppliers on 51Toko, these expo exhibitors rank high because their contact details are complete.
Our principle has always been the same: give you factories you can contact, not names you can only look at. The six major China expos are part of how we deliver on that.
Frequently asked
How big is the supplier pool you match from?
We match from an existing base we build and continuously enrich — 1.71M+ in total, with 1.04M+ reachable via verified contact info, including 819K+ overseas reachable companies plus a China-based pool of 224K+ reachable suppliers. For buyers, what matters is the verified supplier side: Chinese trade-show exhibitors and other audited B2B sources we can match against your request and reach on your behalf. This is the existing base, not a fixed limit: if the market or category you need isn't in it yet, we collect and enrich it on demand.
Where does TokoAI(51Toko)'s supplier data come from?
From public business databases, Chinese trade-show exhibitor directories, and government procurement records, cross-checked into a reachable, high-quality pool of China-based suppliers that we build and maintain ourselves.