(The 9th China International Import Expo) Industry consensus: AI brings new opportunities for globalization

China News Service, Shanghai, November 7 (Reporter Zheng Yingying) "The AI ​​era is a new era of native globalization." Jiang Xiaojuan, a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, recently said at the 9th Hongqiao International Economic Forum Hongqiao International Open Hub Construction Sub-forum and the 2026 Hongqiao HUB Conference.

She said that for many years, China's technology products and investments have followed a "domestic first, then foreign" model. Native globalization requires technologies, products and services to be "born global", and AI technology is the most important driving force.

Ian Goldin, professor of globalization and development at the University of Oxford, also agrees that AI is at the core of this transformation. He said that China once was at the forefront of building a world manufacturing center, and now it is once again at the forefront of a new round of transformation of globalization. China not only has products such as electric cars and robots, but also has new manufacturing capabilities to embed artificial intelligence into products.

Embodied intelligent robots are undoubtedly one of the hot topics of attention from the outside world right now. At the 9th China International Import Expo, Shanghai's well-known robotics company Zhiyuan exhibited a variety of products that have been implemented, showing the practical progress of robots from technical demonstrations to practical work.

A group of Chinese industrial AI innovation entities are also investing in the global industrial development wave.

"Later, I realized what kind of industrial change we had participated in." Zhou Yuxiang, founder and CEO of Black Lake Technology, lamented at a forum at this CIIE. From "digitization" to "digital intelligence", a number of innovative companies have emerged in China in recent years that have accelerated their growth with the development of AI. In Zhou Yuxiang’s view, AI technology will bring more possibilities when the industry is restructured and new needs are met.

Haizhi Intelligent Manufacturing demonstrated such a path at this CIIE: to "chain" global cutting-edge R&D to China's new engineering and manufacturing capabilities. A head-mounted data collection device displayed on site was developed by an overseas embodied intelligence R&D team. The team completed concept verification and mass production supply through the intelligent workbench "Magic Factory" manufactured by Haizhi.

At the press conference on the spillover effects of the 9th China International Import Expo, Sha Hailin, president of the Shanghai Public Relations Association, said that the certainty of the market in big countries is itself the biggest spillover effect. In the era of digital intelligence, fields such as artificial intelligence and green and low-carbon should not just be hot words in the exhibition area, but should become long-term orders and new growth points.