Shenzhen, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On November 14, the twenty seventh China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) formally opened in Shenzhen, underneath the theme “Empowering Industries with Technology, Creating the Future Together.”
As China’s largest and most influential know-how exhibition, this 12 months’s CHTF brings collectively over 5,000 main enterprises and worldwide organizations from greater than 100 international locations and areas, presenting over 5,000 cutting-edge merchandise, applied sciences, and improvements that characterize the frontier of world science and know-how.
For practically three many years, the CHTF has served as a key bridge for international innovation change and know-how commercialization, and an vital window of China’s high-level opening-up in the sector of excessive and new know-how.
A Global Engine for Innovation
With 22 specialised exhibition zones spanning synthetic intelligence and robotics, semiconductors and built-in circuits, client electronics, low-altitude economic system, business aerospace, and extra, this 12 months’s CHTF paints a vivid blueprint of the brand new panorama of China’s high-tech industries.
The occasion covers 400,000 sq. meters of exhibition space and is collectively organized by the Shenzhen Municipal Government. It goals to speed up the integration of technological and industrial innovation, and to contribute to China’s aim of attaining high-level self-reliance in science and know-how as outlined in the twentieth CPC Central Committee’s Fourth Plenary Session.
Shenzhen, as China’s innovation powerhouse, continues to guide the nation in R&D depth and international patent purposes. For 9 consecutive years, the town’s whole R&D expenditure has maintained double-digit progress. It has topped the nation in home patent authorizations for seven years and PCT worldwide patent filings for 21 years, with the Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou innovation cluster not too long ago ranked first in the world.
A spotlight of this 12 months’s exhibition is the Ascend AI Ecosystem Pavilion, collectively offered by Huawei and Guangming Laboratory. Featuring the 384 Super Node, making its first public look in Shenzhen, the pavilion showcases the “hard power” of home AI computing and the “soft core” of China’s open-source CANN structure—demonstrating a thriving AI ecosystem powered by collaboration.
Driving Regional Synergy and a Unified National Market
In alignment with China’s technique to construct a unified nationwide market, the CHTF performs an important position in selling the environment friendly circulation of innovation assets—know-how, capital, and expertise—throughout areas.
More than 30 regional delegations from Shanghai, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Macao, and throughout the Greater Bay Area—together with Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan, and Zhongshan—are collaborating, absolutely demonstrating the Fair’s skill to advertise regional cooperation and useful resource integration.
A brand-new “Regional Economic and Technological Innovation Zone” has been established this 12 months, highlighting the most recent achievements in technological and industrial innovation throughout China.
For instance, Zhangjiagang and Hangzhou’s Yuhang District debut as impartial exhibitors, showcasing superior industries from new vitality and semiconductors to digital economic system, low-altitude aviation, and biomedicine.
Among the highlights, Zhejiang Strong Brain Technology, China’s first unicorn in mind–pc interface (BCI) know-how, presents its non-invasive BCI and Revo 2 robotic hand; whereas Hangzhou Gaoxi Technology, the world’s solely firm able to mass-producing single-layer graphene oxide, unveils its “one material, two fibers, two membranes” innovation system.
Gathering the Forces of Innovation
The twenty seventh CHTF brings collectively over 5,000 enterprises alongside the worldwide high-tech worth chain, integrating innovation, capital, and business to domesticate new high quality productive forces.
Over 40 state-owned enterprises, together with China Southern Power Grid, China Rare Earth Group, and China Electric Equipment Group, showcase breakthroughs in large-scale nationwide initiatives, whereas business leaders corresponding to HONOR, iFLYTEK, Insta360, XDS Bicycles, and Bourne Optical unveil their newest technological developments.
More than 30 high universities and analysis institutes—together with Tsinghua University, Peking University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Guangming Laboratory—are exhibiting, providing a glimpse into the innovative of world science.
Expanding International Collaboration
Situated in the guts of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, the CHTF continues to function a window of worldwide openness and cooperation.
This 12 months’s Fair incorporates a “Belt and Road International Cooperation Zone” and an “International Friendship City Technology Zone”, attracting innovators from Germany, Canada, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and different areas throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Over 30,000 skilled patrons and 1,000 procurement delegations are anticipated to take part in the Global Sourcing Fair, alongside 3,000 home and worldwide funding establishments, together with Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, IDG Capital, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Saudi Sovereign Fund.
Dedicated International Procurement Sessions, such because the New Energy and Energy Storage Special, will facilitate direct cooperation between international patrons and Chinese suppliers, accelerating cross-border innovation and industrial collaboration.
A Three-Day Showcase of Innovation
Across its three-day agenda, the Fair will host greater than 200 occasions, together with product launches, mission roadshows, technical seminars, funding boards, and award ceremonies.
Over 5,000 new merchandise and applied sciences—90% of that are bodily displays—will make their debut, with over 20% being international or China-first releases.
Highlights embrace the world’s first underwater operation exoskeleton robotic developed by the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), and HONOR’s Magic 8 Series, the world’s first self-evolving AI-native smartphone.
A Legacy of Innovation
Over the previous 27 years, the China Hi-Tech Fair has not solely grow to be referred to as “China’s No.1 Technology Exhibition” however has additionally witnessed the rise of numerous tech legends.
It was right here that Tencent secured its first funding, iFLYTEK fashioned a strategic partnership with Huawei, and the genetically modified cotton mission took root earlier than spreading throughout the nation.
From these tales of success, CHTF continues to embody the journey of Chinese know-how—from follower, to runner-up, to international chief.
As new partnerships are signed and improvements unveiled at this 12 months’s Fair, the CHTF as soon as once more proves itself as a unending stage for innovation, driving applied sciences from exhibition halls to industries, and from Shenzhen to the world—injecting new momentum into international scientific progress and China’s technological self-reliance.
