The spring session of the biannual Canton Fair, or the 111th China Import and Export Fair, closed on Saturday, with export transactions decreased for the first time since 2009.

The value of export deals dropped by 2.3 percent year-on-year to 36.03 billion U.S. dollars, or down 4.8 percent than the figure at the autumn session of the fair, said Liu Jianjun, spokesman with the fair.

This is the first volume decrease since the spring of 2009 as economic crisis hit the world from 2008, according to Liu.

Debt crisis from European union     countries and tough job market in the United States were among the factors that have caused the decrease, he said.

"Although we have seen sharp export deal increase in new markets, such as in Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa and other African countries, it cannot make up for the huge shortfall from European and American markets," said Liu.

The purchasers attending the fair reached 210,000, setting a new record since the fair's debut in 1957.

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91酷點(diǎn)英語快訊：第111屆廣交會5日閉幕。有超過21萬人次參會，參會會商數(shù)量再創(chuàng)歷史新高。與人數(shù)激增相反的是，受國際經(jīng)濟(jì)環(huán)境不景氣的影響，本屆廣交會累計出口成交360.3億美元，環(huán)比和同比分別下降4.8%和2.3%。雖然新興市場的發(fā)展勢頭強(qiáng)勁，卻仍然無法彌補(bǔ)由于歐債危機(jī)和美國就業(yè)形式嚴(yán)峻所造成的成交下降的缺口。

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