China News Service, Wuhan, October 27 (Wang Mengyuan Zhang Shiyu Zhang Sicong) The 2026 International (Wuhan) Intelligent Construction Industry Expo (hereinafter referred to as the "Intelligent Expo") kicked off at the Wuhan Optics Valley Technology Convention and Exhibition Center on the 27th. More than 200 units from well-known universities, scientific research institutes, leading construction companies, major Internet companies, specialized and new "little giant" enterprises, and technology companies from more than 10 countries and regions around the world participated in the exhibition with more than 1,400 innovative results, focusing on displaying and releasing advanced results of the intelligent construction industry chain.
Hubei Province is a major province in the construction industry, with a complete industrial chain and leading the country in terms of volume. In 2025, the total output value of the province's construction industry will be 2.2 trillion yuan, ranking fourth in the country. It has gathered more than 10 large-scale design units such as China Railway Fourth Survey and Design Institute Group and China Railway Bridge Survey and Design Institute Group, as well as many large-scale comprehensive construction companies such as China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, China Railway Eleventh Engineering Bureau, China Communications Second Harbor Engineering Company, Gezhouba Group, China Railway Bridge Bureau, etc., with business covering housing construction, municipal administration, transportation, water supply, etc. With the support of tens of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises, it has formed a complete construction industry chain; it has many shining business cards such as "World Design Capital", "World Hydropower Construction Capital" and "World Bridge Construction Capital". 11 academicians and 44 national survey and design masters have gathered in the construction and related fields, providing solid support and a broad stage for the high-quality development of intelligent construction.
The 2026 International (Wuhan) Intelligent Construction Industry Expo has the theme of "Intelligent manufacturing leads the way to gather strength and strengthen the chain". The conference has set up a theme conference and eight major exhibition areas including "Design City", "Good Houses", Urban Renewal, Infrastructure and Intelligent Equipment, Green and Low-carbon Engineering, New Energy Engineering, Digital Intelligence, and Internationalization, including 2026 China A There were 5 academic exchanges including IDC (Intelligent Computing Center) Industrial Development Conference, "Design City", Urban Renewal, and Urban Underground Pipe Network, as well as 5 supply and demand docking activities including product launches, transaction signings, urban construction investment and financing and key project docking, supply chain supply and demand docking, and technology roadshows, focusing on displaying and releasing advanced results of the intelligent construction industry chain.
At the opening ceremony, Wang Shengjun, chief economist of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, pointed out that smart construction is an important way to cultivate new productive forces in the field of housing and construction, and is the only way to promote the upgrade of "Made in China" to "Made in China Intelligent". Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", intelligent construction has moved from "point demonstration" to "widespread momentum". In the future, China will aim to provide high-quality construction products for the whole society, test innovation with scenarios, build a foundation with standard collaboration, and use ecological common growth as a yardstick to vigorously develop intelligent construction and green construction, vigorously cultivate modern construction industry chains and modern construction industry workers, and create an upgraded version of China's construction.
Hu Yabo, Vice Governor of Hubei Province, emphasized that the province is deploying major projects to promote the development of existing stocks to support urban and rural construction. Supported by the overall promotion of "building a new model of real estate development, green and intelligent transformation of the construction industry, and reform of the investment and financing system in the urban construction field", the province will scientifically and pragmatically promote urban renewal and high-quality development in the province. In the next step, we will take urban renewal and the construction of "six networks" as the traction, support the reform of the investment and financing system in the urban construction field, and use the revitalization of existing resources as a breakthrough to accelerate the construction of a new pattern of high-quality development of urban construction, vigorously develop intelligent construction, create a modern construction industry chain, continue to promote the intelligent, green, and integrated transformation and upgrading of the construction industry, and help Hubei pivot construction to continuously achieve new results.
Jiang Xiaoqun, president of the China Construction Industry Association, said that the digital and intelligent transformation of the entire chain has become an inevitable choice for high-quality development of the industry. Intelligent construction is accelerating from concept to practice, from pilot to promotion, and has become an important force in reshaping the competitiveness of the industry. He said that we should build on quality, return to the original intention of construction quality, and closely integrate intelligent construction with quality improvement; use synergy to promote integrated development of industries, allowing technology, standards, talents and other elements to flow across regions and borders; build a foundation with self-discipline, build an honest industry ecosystem, and make the golden sign of "Made in China" shine even brighter.
As the world's largest investment and construction group, Zhao Yong, member of the party group and deputy general manager of China State Construction Engineering Corporation, said that it will take serving the national strategy and leading the transformation of the industry as its own responsibility. The "China Construction Group Intelligent Construction 2035 Master Action Plan" compiled by Intelligent Construction comprehensively reshapes the company's core competitiveness. It insists on using hard core technology to build powerful tools, using scenario traction to forge benchmark projects, and using openness and collaboration to cultivate the industrial ecology. It is willing to cultivate the industry chain, build an innovation chain, and jointly expand the value chain with colleagues. Chen Weiguo, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, as chairman of the Hubei Provincial Intelligent Construction Industry Collaboration Alliance, released the Intelligent Construction Industry Development Index, which focuses on the four major links of design, construction, operation and maintenance, and supply chain, and systematically reflects the development level of intelligent construction in terms of product quality, industrial efficiency, and social value from 16 dimensions and 52 indicators.
The meeting that day also released Hubei Province's "Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of Intelligent Construction Industry". The plan proposes to use three years to build a development pattern of "demand traction-enterprise upgrading-industrial growth-quality improvement" and strive to create a national smart construction pioneer demonstration zone. Among them, by the end of 2026, there will be no less than 100 new smart construction pilot projects; by the end of 2027, no less than 5 smart construction industrial parks will be built, no less than 20 comprehensive service operators will be cultivated, and no less than 300 new high-tech and "specialized, special and new" enterprises will be added.
A series of "hard-core" equipment and platforms were unveiled at the exhibition. As a leading enterprise in the engineering survey and design industry, Iron Fourth Institute brought three hard-core products: geological exploration AI robot, railway tunnel face intelligent geological sketching equipment, and pile bottom karst three-dimensional ultrasonic detection equipment. Intelligent equipment appeared in the "Design City" exhibition area, focusing on the innovative practices and benchmark results of the intelligent manufacturing transformation of corporate geological survey; China Railway 11th Bureau brought the ultra-large diameter intelligent shield machine "Dinghai" and the independently developed ternary mixed gas shield pressurized operation equipment , sunken shaft intelligent boring machine and other hard-core products were unveiled, attracting everyone's attention; China Railway Bridge Bureau, which was born due to the construction of the first bridge over the Yangtze River and has built more than 4,000 bridges, focused on demonstrating breakthroughs in the overall vertical rotation of offshore steel towers and the precise hoisting of large sections and other key technologies, and independently developed the "Hongying No. 1" intelligent cantilever bridge construction machine, the "Bridge Sea Breeze" 2,000-ton self-elevating offshore wind power installation platform and a series of intelligent construction equipment to promote the transformation of bridge construction into digital, intelligent and less-manned construction.
On the day of the meeting, 13 construction companies including China Construction Third Engineering Bureau signed deals with more than 60 affiliated companies including Haier, Hikvision, Huaxin Cement, Baowu Group, and Hitachi Elevator, with a total contract value exceeding 7.3 billion.
