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140th Canton Fair Spotlights Advanced Manufacturing
China News Service reports the Canton Fair highlighted shifts toward advanced manufacturing, showcasing products like smart bionic hands, robots, and integrated overseas solutions.
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The Brief
China News Service reported that the first phase of the 140th China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, closed in Guangzhou. Attendees noted rapid technological development, highlighted by exhibits such as smart bionic hands and exoskeleton robots designed to help individuals with limited mobility grasp objects and walk.
Themed around advanced manufacturing, the fair presented smart hands that capture neural and muscle electrical signals to enable independent five-finger grasping, alongside low-altitude aircraft, energy storage systems, and robots capable of playing table tennis against humans.
In the service robotics area, overseas buyers increasingly inquire about line adaptation, installation, debugging, and subsequent maintenance, while Chinese automakers expand outward through overseas facilities such as BYD in Hungary, Chery in Spain, and XPeng in Austria.
Jinan University academic Zheng Huanzhao observed that enterprises are embedding technology, branding, and service capabilities into international competition, noting that the fair achieved complete coverage across ten categories of productive service industries.
China context
Celebrating its 70th anniversary as China's earliest and largest international trade event, the Canton Fair has evolved over 70 years from agricultural products and light consumer goods to mechanical and electrical equipment, new energy vehicles, and service robots, tracking manufacturing transformation.
Key Takeaways
- 1Smart bionic hands at the fair identify movement intentions through neural and muscle electrical signals for independent grasping.
- 2Chinese automakers are advancing overseas industrial presence through car factories established in Hungary, Spain, and Austria.
- 3The exhibition achieved full coverage across ten major categories of productive service industries as exhibitors adopt product-plus-service models.
Sources
- 广交会观察：从猪皮手套到仿生手 照见中国制造70年 — China News Service · 10/19/2026