China News Service, Hangzhou, September 27 (Xi Jinyan) On the 27th, the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo concluded successfully in Hangzhou. With the annual theme of "Meeting the Future of AI at the Digital Trade Fair", this digital trade fair attracted exhibitors and merchants from 163 countries (regions) and 40 international organizations to participate in the exhibition.
It is reported that this digital trade fair has been further improved in terms of exhibition area, exhibitors, professional merchants, and number of visitors: first, the exhibition area has been increased again, reaching 170,000 square meters; second, the number of exhibitors has been increased again, with 2,008 companies participating offline; third, the number of merchants has been increased again, with more than 50,000 professional merchants attending the fair to purchase, an increase of 20% over the previous session; fourth, the number of visitors has been increased again, with a total of 428,000 visitors.
The theme exhibition hall of the fifth digital trade fair. Photo provided by the organizer
At the results conference, Han Jun, deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, said that on the Digital Trade Fair platform, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises have accelerated their growth. Since its debut at the second Digital Trade Fair, Dioshu has used the exhibition platform to iterate technology, link resources, and develop markets every year. Since Lingban Technology participated in the first Digital Trade Fair, its products have been sold to more than 80 countries and regions around the world. In the future, we will continue to transform exhibition resources into real opportunities for enterprises, allowing more small and medium-sized enterprises to find orders, partners and future here.
Wang Yongfang, director of the Hangzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau, said that this digital trade fair not only built a carrier for economic and trade exchanges in digital trade, but also achieved fruitful industrial results and valuable cooperation consensus. As the host city of the Digital Trade Fair, Hangzhou will fully undertake the spillover effects of the Digital Trade Fair, transform the "traffic" of the exhibition into the "increment" of trade, and contribute to the high-quality development of digital trade and international cooperation in Hangzhou and add new momentum.
It is reported that this year's digital trade fair highlights the characteristics of artificial intelligence, with 226 debuts, first shows, and first exhibitions, covering digital health, digital entertainment, digital travel and other fields, comprehensively presenting new momentum for the development of digital trade in the "AI era". 996 artificial intelligence companies participated in the exhibition, about three times the number of the previous exhibition, bringing more than 100 artificial intelligence application scenarios.
At the exhibition area, Tesla’s unmanned electric vehicles and Yushu’s manned transforming robots demonstrated the possibility of future travel; the Star Species cleaning robot made it easier to clean the public environment, and many livelihood technologies allowed the public to see a “better life in the future”; there was also the thousand-star-scale “Spiritual Constellation” space infrastructure project jointly built by central state-owned enterprises and scientific research institutes to promote the inclusive availability of data, computing power and intelligence in space and serve thousands of industries.
During this year's Digital Trade Fair, Malaysia and Hungary served as the guest countries. France, South Korea, Peru, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and other countries organized delegations to participate in the exhibition. More than 12,000 international merchants attended the Digital Trade Fair, further expanding the international "circle of friends" of the Digital Trade Fair.
While expanding international participation, this digital trade fair also unveiled key platforms such as the China Headquarters of the Arab Digital Economy Alliance, released more than 100 industry authoritative reports, lists, initiatives and consensuses such as the Global Digital Trade Development Report 2026, promoted China's meteorological intelligent early warning program "Mazu" and other international public products to benefit developing countries, promoted digital connectivity, bridged the digital divide, improved digital governance, and promoted global trade to become more free, inclusive and orderly.
This digital trade fair has established cooperation with 132 overseas business associations, prepared procurement demand lists in advance, and carried out more than 50 special trade matching activities. At the same time, focusing on promoting innovation through competition and promoting production through competition, digital technology application events such as the World Artificial Intelligence Open Source Competition, Embodied Intelligence Application Challenge, and Global Brain-Computer Interface Innovation Competition will be held at the same time, attracting more than 10,000 teams to compete on the same field, effectively promoting the transformation and application of digital technology. (over)
