A large number of hard technologies will be unveiled at the 9th CIIE to meet the future
This CIIE will feature more than 480 exhibits that are first in the world, first in Asia, and first in China, setting a new high in history.
Quick Look
- The 9th China International Import Expo opened in Shanghai on the 5th.
- The exhibition brought together more than 480 exhibits that were first shown in the world, first in Asia and first in China, setting a record high.
- A variety of exhibits such as a table tennis duel between embodied intelligent robots and Peruvian organic bananas were displayed on site, highlighting the spillover effect of the CIIE in promoting exhibits to become explosive products and converging the industrial chain.
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Why It Matters
The China International Import Expo is the world's first national-level exhibition with an import theme and is held in Shanghai every year.
The 9th China International Import Expo opened in Shanghai today (5th). At this year's CIIE, there were more than 480 exhibits that were first exhibited globally, first in Asia, and first in China, setting a record high. A large number of black and hard technologies were unveiled.
Enter the Expo Arena
What’s different about this robot ping pong showdown?
Headquarters reporter Zeng Kan: At the 9th China International Import Expo, there was a robot table tennis duel.
Why choose the sport of table tennis to verify many technologies of robots? Each shot on the table tennis table lasts only about 0.3 seconds, which means it is impossible to control it manually. Each shot requires the robot to observe, select and make decisions on its own, and then make the final response. All of this is crossing a gap. Embodied intelligence and humanoid robots are moving from being able to move to toddlers, to being able to move according to programs, but now everything is based on randomness and tricks.
Only when we can make better judgments in high-speed movements and random scenes, and use the tools in our hands to change the environment, can we more confidently hand over real and complex environments to robots.
This small robot is different from the more common four-wheeled robots in the past. The number of wheels has been subtracted, but the function has been added, so it can have better ability to pass through complex urban environments. Its vision and radar systems can accurately identify objects and achieve precise collision avoidance. More functions can be stacked on top of it, so it can achieve more possibilities.
Exhibits become explosive
Jin Expo brings good things out of the circle
The first-ever Peruvian organic bananas are also a “good thing of tomorrow” that can be seen soon. During the Lunar New Year in 2027, you can see this product launched at this CIIE in major supermarkets around you.
The CIIE is turning exhibits into commodities and commodities into explosive products.
This is the first pineapple at the fifth CIIE. Now the Shanghai market alone requires 60 to 70 standard containers every week, with 18 tons of pineapples in each container.
This is the largest booth ever set up by this exhibitor, a ninth-term QQ student, at this CIIE. But what I’m more curious about is why an exhibitor in an agricultural and food products exhibition area has more signing and negotiation tables than the number of product display stands? This just shows that not only products are displayed, but more importantly, the entire industrial chain is gathered during the CIIE. Negotiations, discussions, more plans and the implementation of results will continue to happen at these signing and negotiation tables. The effects of the CIIE begin to overflow from here and from this moment on.
Presenting a global national brand for the first time
Let the past meet the future
More than 200 years ago, tea from Southeast Asia and Africa encountered the special water quality in the UK, and a unique way of drinking it was formed. Tea has a very profound culture in China, but there are different ways of drinking it in different parts of the world. This just shows that a good life is not an unchanging set of templates, but that on the same earth, people hand over different answers according to local conditions.
At this CIIE, more than 100 brands from various countries and regions around the world, with deep local memories among the people, gathered here.
This CIIE also set up a global national brand display area for the first time. Although the area is not large, its significance is not small. Because the themes of many exhibition halls at the CIIE are oriented to the future, but it seems that only here they are still stuck in the past. But this just shows that good things can travel through time and space. When you experience national brands with a history of more than a century while experiencing black technology and hard-core technology here, you can even more appreciate the unique charm of the 9th CIIE.
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Exhibitors will sign a number of procurement and cooperation agreements during the exhibition
Very likely · Within days
Open Questions
- What is the final intended transaction volume of this CIIE?
- Which specific foreign-funded enterprises have expanded their investments in China?



