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Guangzhou Dayun Motorcycle, a motorcycle maker based in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province in south China, has attended the twice-yearly China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, for 30 years, but this year it was different. For the first time in its 63-year history, the 127th trade fair was not held on-site in Guangzhou due to the novel coronavirus epidemic but online from June 15 to 24 instead.

As Wu Peiyuan, general manager of the international trade department of the company, told a press conference held in Guangzhou on June 21, domestic suspension of work earlier this year and the global pandemic spread affected the company’s overseas orders over the past months. However, the fair

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