SF EXPO and MFN have been partners since 2008, and have supported each other for many years. SF EXPO will continue to work with MFN to maintain a long-term friendly partnership.

Stepping into 2021, the 14th Five-Year Plan has made a magnificent start. Facing the epidemic, China's economy has recovered strongly and become the only major economy to achieve positive economic growth globally. At the time of rapid economic recovery, China‘s government guides consumption upgrading, improves innovation ability, continues to promote high-level opening up, and accelerates the construction of a new development pattern with domestic economy circulation as the main body and domestic and international economic dual circulation promoting each other.

As a premier surface finishing industry event in South China, The 14th Guangzhou (China) International Surface Finishing, Electroplating and Coating Exhibition (Hereinafter referred as SF EXPO 2021) will be held on July 26 to 28, 2021, in Guangzhou. It will actively seize new opportunities in the process of China's economic recovery and acceleration of opening-up and transformation under the dual circulation pattern.

SF EXPO 2021 is still hosted by China Electroplating Association, China Surface Engineering Association Painting of Branch, Guangdong Coating Industry Association and Wise Exhibition (Guangdong) Co., Ltd., and co-organized by more than 50 surface finishing industry associations and end-user industry organizations at home and abroad. SF EXPO has been held in Guangzhou for 13 consecutive years and was approved by the UFI (The Global Association of Exhibition Industry) in 2012, regularly attracting more than 20,000 professional visitors every year. Over the years, adhering to the principles of high quality, internationalization and marketization, SF EXPO keeps developing and innovating, and has become an authoritative event for exhibiting and promoting new products and technologies in the domestic surface-finishing industry.

Andrzej Wojtas (Ph.D.), Chief Editor 

of MFN, E-mail: andrzej@mfn.li