I have worked over 8 years as furniture，home decoration and building material purchase agent and business interpreter in China.

This post is specialized in sourcing Furniture and building decoration material in China.

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Part 1
Furniture purchase

Fair, wholesale markets and B2B website is the most commonly used way to source furniture factory/ manufacturer.


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No. 1 Fair

The top 4 international furniture fair worthy to be visit are as below.

1. CIFF: China International Furniture Fair (Guangzhou),( There are two fair each year, one in Mar, one in Sep. Website: www.ciff-gz.com. CIFF is the biggest and most professional furniture fair in China also in the world)
2. 3F: International Famous Furniture Fair (Dongguan),( There are two fair each year, one in Mar, one in Sep. Website: www.3f.net.cn )
3. FC: Furniture China (Shanghai) (There is one fair per year in Sep. Website: www.furniture-china.cn )
4. Canton Fair: (Guangzhou) ( There are two fair each year, one in April, one in October. Website: www.cantonfair.org.cn, Canton fair is a complex fair for all kind of products, not professional furniture fair. Normally professional furniture buyer will visit CIFF)


Comment: almost all the company attend the fair are factories. Visiting fair is the best choice to find professional furniture factory.

No.2 Wholesale market
The top 4 most famous and centralized furniture production bases that worthy to go in China are as below.

1. Lecong Town, Shunde District, Foshan City & Dongguan City, Guangdong Province (one hour from Guangzhou by taxi); There will be detail information about Lecong in the following introduction.
2.Xianghe, Langfang City, Hebei Province(Northern China, Close to Beijing, Tianjin);
3.Likou, Suzhou City, Jiangsu province(Eastern China, Close to Shanghai, Nanjing);
4.Bayi, Chengdu City, Sichuan province (Western China, Close to Chengdu, Chongqing).

Comment: In the wholesale market over 50% are distributors, not all factory. You can buy wholesale as well as retail in there.Price depends on the order quantity.

Shunde, China Biggest Furniture Wholesale Market
China Biggest Furniture Wholesale Market is located at Shunde district, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China.Shunde was named as the China Furniture Business and Trading Capital by the China National Light Industry Council and China National Furniture Association. It covers a total area of approximately 32.3 million square feet and it includes more than 20 modern furniture sales buildings, including all types of furniture. It opens all the year around except Chinese New Year holiday.
Located about an hour from Guangzhou, adjacent to Hongkong and Macau, Lecong furniture wholesale markets offer convenient transportation as well as well-developed infrastructure. Shunde District has become the most important and the best international home furnishing center and international trading platform for international sellers/buyers in China.

Detail furniture wholesale market in Shunde, Foshan City
1. Shunde Louvre Group / 罗浮宫家居集团
Address: Lecong Section, National Highway #325, Shunde, Foshang, Guangdong, China /中国•广东省佛山市顺德区325国道乐从路段罗浮宫国际家具博览中心
Tel: 0757-28839999



Comment: Louvre is High level furniture mall, with fabulous design and also high price. Most of the suppliers are distributor, only few of them are factory.

2. Shunde Empire Furniture / 顺德皇朝家私
Address: Empire Group•Lecong International Furniture City, 325 Highway, Lecong, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China /广东佛山顺德乐从325国道皇朝集团
Tel:0086-757-29992888
Website: www.empirefnt.com/En/aboutus.asp



Comment: Empire is High level furniture mall, with lot of fabulous design originally imported from abroad with high price. Empire has sophisticated and professional hotel engineer project furniture building

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3. Foshan International Furniture Expo Mall / 佛山家居博览城
Address: (Qiaotoupu, Lecong Furniture Gallery) Lanshi Daqiaojiao, National 325, Foshan Avenue, Chancheng District, Foshan. /广东省佛山市禅城区佛山大道189号（121省道）澜石大桥脚（乐从百里家居长廊桥头堡）
Tel: 86+400-101-3888
Website: www.fs-ifem.com


Comment: IFEM is newly opened in 2013, it’s the biggest furniture and building material wholesale market in Foshan. But still not fully opened, less than half store are opened till 2014.05, most of them are factory with competitive price because the business still not good there, almost all stores are big size with plenty of choice.

4. Sunlink North / 顺联北区
Address: North-Sunlink Section, Lecong Town , Shunde District, Foshan City , Guangdong Province, China /广东省佛山市顺德区乐从镇广湛公路顺联家具城•北区
TEL：0757-28833888/28862888

Comment: Sunlink north is middle level market, most of the supplier there are distributor.

5. Sunlink South / 顺联南区
Address: South-Sunlink Section, Lecong Town , Shunde District, Foshan City , Guangdong Province, China /广东省佛山市顺德区乐从镇广湛公路顺联家具城•南区
TEL：0757-28833888/28862888



Comment: Sunlink south is middle level market, it has the biggest section specialized for sofa and bed. It’s the most commonly visit area for sofa business.

China (Guangzhou) International Building Decoration Fair
2024.7.8-7.11 GUANGZHOU -CHINA
The 26th China (Guangzhou) International Building Decoration Fair [also known as "CBD (Guangzhou)"] will be held on July 8-11, 2024, at Canton Fair Complex in Guangzhou.
In 2023, CBD (Guangzhou) has successfully showcased with an exhibition area of 400,000 square meters, nearly 2,000 exhibitors and more than 250,000 professional visitors attended, being known for the world's No.1 exhibiting scale of building and decoration industry.CBD (Guangzhou) almost includes all top brands from China's building and decoration industrial chain, referred to as the“Debut Platform for Champion Enterprises”. Over the years, CBD (Guangzhou) has been strengthening the characteristics of covering the whole industry chain and its scale advantages to provide overall solutions for the market and the industry.

In 2024, the total exhibition scale of CBD (Guangzhou) will be expanded to 420,000 square meters, and about 2,200 enterprises are expected to participate. The exhibition will optimize and upgrade 6 thematic areas of Customized Decoration, Window & Door, Smart Home, Material & Hardware & Machinery, Design and the Guangzhou International Sanitary and Bath Ware Fair, and continue to consolidate this "5+1" Layout, bringing together the champion brands of the whole industry chain, promoting the high-quality development of the building and decoration industry.


Over 150,000 m²

About 600 Exhibitors

The CUSTOMIZED DECORATION Area of CBD.(Guangzhou) is the largest with its exhibiting scale, the most complete of including the top brands within the similar events in China even the world. The displays include the following: Whole House Customization, Luxurious Customization, Assembled Roof & Wall, Artistic Wall Paint, Balcony & Garden Ecology and other sub-topics.