In recent 10 years, with the rapid development of China's economy, the heart of consuming and production for the global metal industry had been shifted to China. In 2005 the volume of crude steel production reached 3.493615 hundred million tons, and 16 million tons for total production of non-ferrous metal in China, which ranks first in the world in recent years. At the same time, China has been the center of research, exchange, cooperation and development for the global metal industry. Especially Guangdong Province (Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province), which located in South China area, is the core of the Pan- Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD), it borders Special Administration Regions of Hong Kong and Macao respectively and adjoins Taiwan and Southeast Asia, it has its advantage for geographical location, good transport facilities, dynamic exchanges with the international, flourishing economy and trade, and huge demand and supply for the market. It's one of the largest collecting and distributing center for trade, and the biggest metal consuming market and the processing center in China and even in South Asia. Metals Fair held in Guangzhou will definitely attract all merchants related to promote enterprises' image, to display their products, to exchange technology, to negotiate business and to seek cooperation. It will have positive role to enhance trade exchange and cooperation among international metal industry, to give impetus to the technology innovation of Chinese metal industry, and to accelerate the development of China and world iron and steel industry, non-ferrous industry and relative industry.

The exhibited contents include iron and steel, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, metalworking, foundry, forging, furnace and heat treatment, ferroalloy, refractory products and metal recycle. It covers the whole metal production technological process from metal smelting, hot and cold working and metal recycle etc.　

To further exchanges, to strengthen the cooperation and to promote trades are the aims of the Metals Fair. China Iron and Steel Association, China Non-ferrous Metals Industry Association and Metallurgical Council of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade sincerely invite all production enterprises, processing enterprises, trading companies, equipment designing and manufacturing enterprises etc. that related to metal industry to participate in the Metals Fair.