The Chinese factories in our base — and why Canton Fair matters to buyers
Most buyers come to us for one reason: they want to source from Chinese factories without flying to Guangzhou. The good news is that our base is built precisely on those factories — the ones that exhibit at Canton Fair and the major China industrial shows. This is the buyer's-eye view of that coverage, with real counts.
Canton Fair: the exhibitors are the factories
Canton Fair is where China's manufacturing base shows up in one place, twice a year. When we say "exhibitors," we mean the factories and trading companies that paid for a booth and passed the organizer's vetting — not anonymous listings.
- 138th session exhibitors: 30,380 companies (99% reachable — email, website, phone, or LinkedIn on file).
- 139th session exhibitors: 6,711 (already ingested; 99% reachable).
- For context, the Fair's buyer directories (137th–139th) run 76,906 / 79,096 / 66,869 — those are the overseas and domestic buyers flooding in to meet Chinese suppliers. The demand is real and recorded.
Why this matters to you: a Canton Fair exhibitor is a supplier that already proved it can sell internationally. Matching from this pool means you start from factories with export experience, not a name scraped off a B2B site.
China machine-tool and industrial shows
Beyond Canton Fair, our base pulls Chinese factories from the shows that define specific industries — the places where the actual makers exhibit:
| Show | Exhibitors | Reachable |
|---|---|---|
| CCMT (China CNC machine tool show) | 2,172 | 100% |
| CIIF (China International Industry Fair) | 2,015 | 100% |
| Hannover Messe (industrial, incl. Chinese exhibitors) | 2,500 | 97% |
| Bauma (construction machinery) | 3,411 | 37% |
| CONEXPO-CON/AGG (construction) | 2,074 | 66% |
| CIIE (China International Import Expo) | 1,671 | 100% |
| CBD (China Build Decor) | 1,476 | 100% |
Figures from our live database (snapshot 2026-08-10). "Reachable" means at least one working contact path exists. Some construction shows (Bauma, CONEXPO) ship with fewer public emails at intake — those are enriched and verified before they reach your match result (see how we build the base).
Why this is the buyer's advantage
Our China-based reachable pool is 60,000+ firms, built heavily on exactly these shows. When you email us what you want to source, the suppliers we match are not random — they are Chinese factories that exhibited, passed vetting, and (where the show gave no email) were enriched and verified as reachable. That is a very different starting point from "we found a website that might be a factory."
What you do
One email describing what you want to source. We find from the Canton Fair and China industrial-show pool first, rank by fit, and have the suppliers respond through our channel. Your identity stays private until you authorize sharing. (See how matching works)
Email us what you want to source and we'll match from China's exhibiting factories — free for buyers.
Frequently asked
How big is the supplier pool you match from?
We match from a large, continuously enriched base of companies — 1.61M+ in total, with 1.01M+ reachable via verified contact info, including 815K+ overseas reachable companies plus a China-based pool of 201K+ reachable suppliers. For buyers, what matters is the verified supplier side: trade-show exhibitors and other audited B2B sources we can find suppliers against your request and reach on your behalf.
Where does TokoAI's supplier data come from?
From public business databases, trade-show directories, and government procurement records, cross-checked into a reachable, high-quality supplier pool that we build and maintain ourselves.
How do you verify a supplier's contact before reaching out?
We only use contact points collected from public sources — a company's own website, trade-show directory, or public business registry — never guessed or machine-constructed addresses. Each address is checked for a real, reachable path before we send on your behalf, and the source is recorded so it can be traced. When a supplier we found responds, it comes from a real, checkable source you can verify yourself.