2026 Nanjing Golden Autumn Economic and Trade Fair held, focusing on high-level opening up and industrial cooperation

China News Service, Nanjing, September 23 (Wang Lei, Zhang Wenyao) On September 23, the 2026 Nanjing Golden Autumn Economic and Trade Fair was held at the Nanjing International Expo Center. As the oldest, largest and most influential economic and trade exchange event in Nanjing, the Golden Fair has been the core platform for Nanjing to showcase the city's investment potential, link global factor resources, and deepen two-way economic and trade cooperation since its inception in 1990. This year's Financial Fair closely follows the main themes of high-level opening up, high-quality overseas expansion, and high-quality consumption. Government and enterprise elites, experts and scholars at home and abroad gather together to discuss industrial cooperation, explore open opportunities, and draw a win-win blueprint.

Open cooperation is the most distinctive background of this Golden Fair. Zhou Hongbo, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, said in his speech that the Golden Fair has become an important bridge for Nanjing to go to the world and connect the world. It is also an important window for the world to understand China and invest in Nanjing. Nanjing has more than 6,000 years of civilization and 3,100 years of city-building history. It has 54 universities, more than 120 national-level R&D platforms, 103 academicians from the two academies and 1.1 million college students. It has attracted 113 of the world's top 500 companies. He hopes: "With this Golden Fair as a new starting point, with the momentum of innovation and development, and with the power of open cooperation, we can jointly write a new chapter of win-win cooperation and achieve mutual success."

The favor of enterprises at home and abroad for Nanjing's economic and trade environment was also frequently revealed at the conference.

Lin Hanping, Chairman and President of BASF Group Greater China, said bluntly that returning to Nanjing “always feels like going home.” “Nanjing’s educational resources, industrial foundation and digital ecology are very suitable for undertaking the task of digital transformation and innovation of enterprises.”

Zhu Xiaojing, President and CEO of Walmart (China) Investment Co., Ltd., said that Nanjing’s consumer market has huge potential and is one of Walmart’s important national strategic markets. In the future, Walmart will continue to increase its business layout in Nanjing and deepen digital intelligence upgrades and local industry collaboration.

Daniel Binder, President of Asia Pacific Region of Canada Goose Holdings, introduced that the brand has continued to increase its store size since opening its first Jiangsu store in Nanjing in 2021. This year, the Deji Plaza store has been upgraded to a new concept store, which has a special status in the company's development blueprint.

Guests from China National Machinery Industry Corporation, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Egypt also expressed their willingness to deepen cooperation, believing that Nanjing is an important fulcrum for linking global resources and expanding the Middle East and North Africa market.

The scientific and technological achievements released at the event allowed the guests to see Nanjing's solid steps in cultivating new productive forces. "Baseband circuit AI automatic design tool chain", "1000 computational qubit dedicated quantum computer", "high-end special glass fiber fabric for aviation", "fully autonomous industrial drone operating system", "non-invasive brain-computer interface rehabilitation training system" and other scientific and technological innovation achievements with industrialization foundation, as well as the release of the industrialization list of scientific and technological innovation achievements, the system has gathered Nanjing's high-quality scientific and technological innovation resources, opened up a complete link from scientific research, achievement transformation to market implementation, and also allowed more domestic and foreign companies to see the vast space of laying out future tracks in Nanjing.

In order to further open up the blocking points in the entire chain of enterprises going overseas, the Golden Fair has launched Nanjing’s “1+4+N” enterprise overseas service system and established the Nanjing Enterprise Overseas Service Alliance to escort Nanjing enterprises’ voyages and provide full-cycle service support for domestic and overseas enterprises to invest in two-way and settle in Nanjing, further enhancing the city’s attractiveness to global resources.

It is reported that a total of 80 projects were displayed at this year's Financial Fair, with a total investment of 82.151 billion yuan, including 42 manufacturing projects, 33 service industry projects, and 5 technology projects. This batch of projects is closely linked to Nanjing’s “1026” advanced manufacturing cluster system, which not only demonstrates the effectiveness of strengthening industrial chains and cultivating new-quality productivity, but also conveys the confidence of domestic and foreign enterprises to continue to be optimistic about Nanjing and to deepen their development in Nanjing. Facing the future, Nanjing will provide more cooperation opportunities for merchants at home and abroad with better services and more practical measures.