Rooted in Shenzhen and looking to the whole country, connected to the world! Chasing the Light for 24 Years, China Light Expo Becomes the First Exhibition of Global Optoelectronic Industry

On September 6th, the 24th China International Optoelectronics Expo will be held at the Shenzhen International Convention and Exhibition Center, where academicians, experts and scholars in the field of optoelectronics, relevant government officials, and upstream and downstream enterprises will gather; Bringing together the global optoelectronic technology field, numerous brands from over 30 countries have made a concentrated appearance, such as Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Japan, South Korea and other national pavilions, further highlighting the internationalization of the exhibition; Top enterprises are exhibiting one after another, with numerous high-precision and cutting-edge technology products appearing to showcase the industry trend; Over 100000 professional viewers and buyers are searching for business opportunities, exploring markets, exploring trends, and seeking cooperation; More than 80 high-end forums were held simultaneously to stimulate industry wisdom and gather high-quality optoelectronic resource elements.

Gather resources and lead the industry trend
The China International Optoelectronics Expo takes it as its responsibility to build an international platform for the exchange of the optoelectronic industry, constantly breaking through innovation, and gradually forming a platform advantage for gathering industrial resources, innovation resources, and talent resources. It has become one of the most authoritative and influential exhibitions in the industry.
Larger scale, more complete industrial chain. The scale of this year's Optoelectronic Expo has reached a new high, with 12 exhibition halls covering 240000 square meters and gathering over 3000 exhibitors from around the world. It covers the entire optoelectronic industry, including information and communication, optics, lasers, infrared, ultraviolet, sensing, innovation, and display, showcasing materials, equipment, technology, and complete solutions, providing new technologies and models for the optoelectronic industry and downstream applications.
More professional and focused on hot topics. For over 20 years, we have been focusing on the optoelectronic industry, paying attention to the latest hot topics, leading the development trend of the industry. We have participated in and recorded the progress of optoelectronic technology, product updates, and market fluctuations both domestically and internationally. Yang Gengshuo, Secretary General of the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE), said that this year's CIOE has seven major exhibitions, including the Information and Communication Exhibition, Precision Optics Exhibition&Camera Technology and Application Exhibition, Laser Technology and Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition, Infrared Technology and Application Exhibition, Intelligent Sensing Exhibition, Optoelectronic Innovation Exhibition, and New Display Brilliance Exhibition. Targeting industry hotspots and market demand, we gather concentrated chips, optical modules, semiconductor materials and equipment, lens modules, AR/VR, lasers, infrared thermal imaging, intelligent sensors, and LiDAR. Hot technologies and key products such as new display manufacturing equipment.
It is worth mentioning that this exhibition will collaborate with the National New Display Technology Innovation Center to create the first "New Display Brilliance Exhibition", gathering the most professional technical experts, cutting-edge technology products and resources in the national display industry chain and technology chain, and creating a professional event serving the display industry.
Full of international style, empowering the global market. A large number of overseas optoelectronic brands are leveraging the China International Optoelectronics Expo to lay out new international tracks. This exhibition attracted representatives from more than 20 countries including Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Israel, etc., bringing a large number of innovative global optoelectronic technologies and solutions, providing more new ideas for the technological development of industries and downstream applications.
Primitive innovation, surging momentum. This exhibition attaches greater importance to gathering Chinese scientific research forces, with a large number of research institutes, laboratories, well-known universities and other institutions showcasing China's cutting-edge optoelectronic research achievements in all aspects, promoting technological innovation and industrial transformation, and assisting in the transformation and implementation of scientific research achievements.
High end forum, shining with wisdom. This exhibition held over 80 conference events, covering four major themes: industry, application, academia, and international. Industry experts discussed the trends in the optoelectronic industry. Among them, conferences on communication, optics, laser, infrared and other industries, where experts and leading enterprises pulse the hot trends in the optoelectronic industry; A series of application conferences on intelligent sensors, intelligent cockpits, new displays, machine vision, intelligent cars, etc., to promote the accelerated application of cutting-edge technologies; The Global Optoelectronic Conference (OGC) - the first IEEE affiliated global optoelectronic academic conference in Asia, explores new developments, concepts, and technologies in the optoelectronic industry, and guides deeper and broader applications of optoelectronic technology.

Integration of production and exhibition, accelerated implementation of new technologies
Like well-known exhibitions developed locally in Shenzhen such as the China International High Tech Fair, the China International Fair for Industry and Technology, the China International Fair for Optoelectronics, and the Shenzhen International Fair for Gifts, as well as the newly cultivated high-performance medical equipment exhibition, digital energy exhibition, and fishery exhibition, the reason why the China International Fair for Optoelectronics has become the world's first exhibition in the optoelectronic industry is due to China's increasingly strong manufacturing industry and Shenzhen's strong industrial foundation.
Shenzhen has a solid industrial foundation, with a complete industrial chain including electronic information, optoelectronic displays, new energy, digital economy, high-end equipment, and new materials. Various industries have increased their application and promotion, thereby promoting the vigorous development of Shenzhen's exhibition industry, especially since the beginning of this year, which has achieved strong recovery and explosive popularity.
Born of light, follow the light and move forward. The Light Expo, from small to large, is a product of the transformation of China's optoelectronic industry from small to strong. Thanks to the suitable soil, air, water, and nutrients, this seedling rooted in Shenzhen, the Light Expo, has the opportunity to grow into a towering tree.
Yang Gengshuo said that running the China Light Expo well is not only innovation, but also a legacy. The inheritance of a brand and a career is a tribute to the older generation of optoelectronic technology workers, and a commitment to always work hand in hand with domestic and foreign optoelectronic professionals. The growth of the China International Optoelectronics Expo cannot be separated from the continuous efforts and contributions of every person who pursues light. Everyone's spirit of struggle and innovation not only promotes the development of the China International Optoelectronics Expo, but also provides impetus for the overall development of optoelectronics in China.
Technology changes life, and optoelectronics illuminate the future. Based on the industrial and lifestyle changes brought about by national technological progress, optoelectronics has increasingly become one of the most inseparable technological applications in people's lives; Based on the implementation of innovation driven strategy, Shenzhen's optoelectronic industry has achieved a leading transformation. It is precisely in such changes that the scale and influence of the China International Optoelectronics Expo are becoming larger and stronger; At the same time, by leveraging the integration of production and exhibition, we are promoting the accelerated landing of new technologies, and optoelectronic enterprises are accelerating the expansion of domestic and international markets.
Huawei, ZTE, Tencent, BYD, Skyworth, Mindray Medical, DaZu and other local companies in Shenzhen have already become regular visitors to the China International Optoelectronics Expo. These companies organize their employees to attend the Guangbo Expo every year to observe advanced technological products or equipment, grasp the latest trends, achieve business cooperation, and accelerate the innovation and development of products and the entire industry.
Every edition of the Optoelectronics Expo closely follows technological development, focusing on the latest technological changes and industry highlights, "Yang Gengshuo said. This year, the optoelectronic industry has developed rapidly, and there are more and more optoelectronic application scenarios, with new applications in industrial, consumer electronics, automotive, semiconductor and other fields; At the same time, China's optoelectronic industry has seen more innovative applications in fields such as energy photons, information photons, and display photons, with application scenarios covering various aspects.
Combining the latest technology application directions in the industry, this year's Optical Expo has set up 7 major professional exhibitions, which are very attractive to enterprises. "The person in charge of a Shenzhen optoelectronic startup said that the company's purpose for visiting the Optical Expo this time is to search for the latest scientific research achievements in the field of photonics, hoping to achieve technical cooperation and strive to achieve the landing and application of technological products.
The exhibition industry and advantageous industries in Shenzhen have formed a positive driving and mutually reinforcing effect. Experts from the Shenzhen Institute of Comprehensive Development in China stated that Shenzhen vigorously promotes technological innovation and the development of emerging industries, which has played a positive role in the development of the exhibition industry. At the same time, professional exhibitions represented by the China International Fair for Trade and Industry have attracted various resources to accelerate aggregation, reached various cooperation platforms, and provided strong impetus for industrial upgrading and high-quality economic development.
Targeting the trend and helping emerging industries thrive
At present, Shenzhen has anchored the primary task of high-quality development and the strategic task of building a new development pattern, further improved the level of advanced industrial foundation and modernization of the industrial chain, accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system with intelligent, green and integrated characteristics, which meets the requirements of integrity, progressiveness, security, and more international competitiveness, and constantly injected new impetus into economic development.
Last year, Shenzhen released the '20+8' industrial cluster policy, of which 10 are closely related to the optoelectronic industry, which is a major benefit for the International Optoelectronics Expo. Yang Gengshuo said that since the beginning of this year, there have been revolutionary changes in the field of artificial intelligence, and the application of large-scale models is at the forefront; After the construction of 5G networks and gigabit optical network backbone, whole house fiber WiFi is becoming a new feature of China's communication construction in 2023.
More importantly, on May 31st of this year, Shenzhen officially issued the "Action Plan for Accelerating the High Quality Development and High Level Application of Artificial Intelligence in Shenzhen (2023-2024)", simultaneously releasing the first batch of "City+AI" application scenario lists, coordinating the establishment of a 100 billion yuan artificial intelligence fund group, actively building a national new generation artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zone and a national artificial intelligence innovation and application pilot zone, and striving to create an artificial intelligence pioneer city.
At the same time, Shenzhen has successively released multiple industrial action plans, making every effort to build a global pioneer city in high-speed, digital energy, and digital twin industries, using new generation information technology to build a solid foundation for the development of emerging industries.

All these industrial layouts inject new momentum into the China Light Expo, "said Yang Gengshuo." By exploring industry hotspots and driving industrial development, this year's Light Expo pays special attention to the use of generative AI represented by application big models to ignite the computing power industry, new infrastructure such as data centers and whole house fiber WiFi, and the development and production of independently researched and developed optoelectronic equipment technology to promote the high-quality development of Shenzhen and emerging industries in China.
Shenzhen is a leading demonstration zone and the core engine of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, playing the role of "engine" and "leader" in multiple fields, attracting well-known exhibition companies from both domestic and foreign countries to hold exhibitions.
Accelerate going out. Adhering to the spirit of openness leading development, the China Optoelectronics Expo has built a broad platform for cooperation, leading Chinese enterprises to "go global". Next March, the "Asia International Optoelectronics Expo" will be held in Singapore to help Chinese enterprises actively explore overseas markets, develop the Chinese optoelectronic industry, and create industry value together.
Reflecting the development of the optoelectronic market, promoting the exchange of optoelectronic technology, and advancing the optoelectronic industry. The purpose of the China Optoelectronics Expo will never change, "said Yang Gengshuo. As a locally grown optoelectronic expo in Shenzhen, it will resonate with the city and industry, continuously improve the quality and service level of exhibitions, and make the optoelectronic expo a shining business card of the Shenzhen exhibition industry, helping Shenzhen become a global innovation capital.