China News Service, Beijing, September 9th: Title: 2026 Service Trade Fair opens, new technology lights up interesting life
China News Service reporters Xu Jing Chen Hang
The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (referred to as the "Fair for Trade in Services") opened in Beijing on the 9th. From the application of robots to the "going overseas" of trendy toys, a number of new products have been unveiled, allowing "hard technology" to be integrated into public life in a way that can be felt, played and experienced.
A robot that has mastered "eighteen martial arts skills" demonstrated new skills at the Service Trade Fair. In the Beijing cultural and tourism exhibition area of the cultural tourism service special exhibition, the historical scene of the cultural toy trade in Liulichang in old Beijing was carefully restored. Two robots transformed into "shopkeepers" and "shop waiters" to introduce the cultural relics and artworks at the counter to the audience and exhibitors.
Bi Jianyu, director of the Cultural Relics Market Management Division of the Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, said that the robot can not only introduce more than 100 cultural relics and artworks in detail, but also tell the past and present life of Beijing Liulichang. "The sales of cultural relics and artworks are often based on the perception of their value, and sales staff have limitations when introducing them." He said that through training and learning, robots can tell the stories behind cultural relics and artworks to the audience.
In the "Unmanned Post Office" special exhibition on telecommunications, computers and information services, after the audience fills in the greetings and mailing address on the postcard, they place it in the designated location. The wheeled two-arm robot automatically picks up the postcard, stamps it and delivers it to the corresponding mailbox through visual recognition.
Wu Hainan, a staff member of Jingchen Digital (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., said that this robot integrates autonomous navigation, visual guidance and grasping and force-controlled operations, focusing on postal services and cultural and creative retail scenarios, and liberating high-frequency standardized business from manual labor. The company plans to promote robots from display verification to normalized services, and achieve stable operation in postal, cultural tourism, exhibition and other environments.
With the help of the CIFTIS platform, more and more Chinese products are going global. HERE Qimengdao's latest co-created product integrates Beijing silk figures, buckles, and ceramics into trendy designs, injecting trendy expression and collectible attributes into intangible cultural heritage skills.
"Compared with traditional handicrafts, trendy products are small in size and low in price, and have become a new carrier to express and spread Chinese culture." Zhai Xiaoqian, the company's public relations manager, said that the company's products have been exported to 27 countries and regions. In May this year, the company signed a strategic cooperation with Hong Kong Pearl River Shipping to create the world's first trendy IP immersive themed route in Victoria Harbor.
"The restoration effect of this device is very realistic and has a full sense of reality." In the Beijing Yizhuang exhibition area of the cultural tourism service exhibition, Nahom Berhanu Wendaferew, a staff member of the Ethiopian Embassy in China, sat in the cockpit of a racing simulator to experience rally racing.
Song Yanqiang, a staff member of the Raging Bear racing simulator, said that the simulator has six degrees of freedom, up and down, left and right, and front and rear, and can independently adjust racing parameters and simulate effects such as acceleration and pushing, slipping, bumps on the road, and weightlessness in the air. It is equipped with three independent screens to simulate the real rearview mirror view and is used for professional training of racers.
Nahom Belhanu Windafereu said that Chinese new energy vehicles are very popular in Ethiopia and can be seen everywhere on the streets of Addis Ababa, the capital. The country has opened up multiple cooperation tracks such as AI and invited Chinese investors to invest.
