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25. November 2020. China's State Council Office has released its official holiday schedule for 2021.
Traditionally, the holiday schedule includes two major holidays: the Spring Festival (also known as Chinese New Year) and the National Holiday of the People's Republic of China.

2021. year, the Spring Festival is celebrated between February 11 and 17, and the National Holiday of the People's Republic of China between October 1 and 7.
According to the Chinese calendar, the New Year falls on Friday, February 12, 2021. The year of the bull begins on that day.

Companies that participate in global trade use two basic forms of transport: ship and air transport.
The cost of transportation is very important because shipping costs affect the final price of the product and affect consumers who buy imported products.

• Transportation prices directly depend on supply and demand.

This year, unusual events have caused the trends to diverge from the normal annual cycles that shipping companies, suppliers and retailers are used to.

In this text, we will look at the price trends in shipping and air traffic during the past year.
We will also analyze the impact of COVID-19 and try to see what can be expected in 2021.

The Ministry of Commerce of China held a regular press conference on September 10.
Ministry spokesman Gao Feng presented information on the upcoming 128th Canton Fair.
What is most interesting to us is that the 128th China Autumn Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, will be held virtually online from October 15 to 24.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, for the first time this fair had an online virtual edition in the period June 15-24, 2020.
According to the rules of keeping distance and avoiding contact, it was decided that the autumn fair will also have its own online edition.

At the time of the corona, you probably heard that the biggest increase in income came from Amazon and trade through Amazon.
The shortest description of the business would be - make a cheap product in China and sell it in America, on Amazon.
Otherwise, this type of business is widely spread throughout China.
What's more, the biggest Amazon convention so far was held in Shanghai in 2018 in a hall with over 10,000 participants.

How to do business through Amazon, what is FBA, how to open a store, all that is part of another story and we will not deal with it in detail, it is not part of our job.

The role of an agent in China when doing business on Amazon

How to choose a manufacturer to work with. This is a very important question, and it must not be ignored.
We will present how we do it.

You should do the same or at least similar if you work independently or with another agent.

The main and basic question when choosing a Chinese manufacturer is determining whether the manufacturer is real or not.