Canada Day opened with two special seminars on information communications and education technologies at the Pavilion Hotel on Monday (October 13th).

This is Canada's fifth China Hi-Tech Fair and this year it sent its largest delegation, according to Jim Feir, Canada's consul general in Guangzhou.

Some 50 to 70 Canadian high-tech firms were involved with counterparts in Shenzhen with some like Nortel, Harris, JED-Uniphase having set up manufacturing centers in the city, Feir said.

Twenty Canadian firms as well as three provincial governments introduced state-of-the-art technologies and products to Chinese mainland and Hong Kong markets at the two seminars.

"It is a smart choice and a good beginning for both sides that so many Canadian firms and educational institutions came to Shenzhen to explore opportunities of cooperation and development in the high-tech and education sectors," said Jiang Tanyu, director general of Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau.

Editor: Catherine