GDToday, an international media outlet of Nanfang Media Group in Guangdong province, launched a business tour for Canton Fair guests on Saturday. Eleven guests from six countries including the United Kingdom, Italy, Pakistan, Peru and Thailand joined the tour and visited some of the advanced manufacturing enterprises in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.

As the first stop, they visited Guangzhou Bio-island and were amazed by the cutting-edge medical technologies.

Enrique Medrano, consultant of Biz-Asia and a Peruvian buyer, said that he did not know that there was such a cluster of high-end medical technology and research in Guangzhou.

The bio-island is a good place for demonstrating Guangzhou and China's achievements to the world, he said. "We can learn so many things from how they're doing things here. And then we can bring these ideas and technologies to our country in Latin America."

An XAG staff member introduces a drone developed by the Guangzhou-based company to Canton Fair guests on a business tour of the city. ZHANG LING/FOR CHINA DAILY

Abdul Sammad, researcher of LifeOne Pakistan, was interested in an autonomous catheter exhibited at the bio-island, which can travel through blood vessels to go inside the body and on to the brain, the heart and so on.

He said that although the idea has been in practice for a long time, seeing it become commercialized has excited him greatly. "I got a bio-island marketing team member on my WeChat. I'm actually in contact with them. I have to have a meeting with them to see what and how they can (make an) offer (to) me."

The group also visited XAG, an enterprise focusing on agricultural drones and agricultural technologies in general. The advanced drones and agricultural internet of things system that monitors rainfall, temperatures, wind and soil, and autonomous farm driving system, all aroused interest among them. Some of them asked about the flight speed, distance, altitude and more about the drones, and were curious about the potential adaptation of them for use in their own countries.

The tour guests said that they wished for more such events in the future, to explore more advanced technologies in Guangzhou and even in other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, such as Shenzhen.

GDToday is planning another tour on Oct 27 afternoon and applicants will have the chance to visit some well-known enterprises of consumer goods and household items in Guangzhou.

Guo Chuhua and Li Muzi with GDToday contributed to this story.