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China-ASEAN Expo Opens AI-Focused Nanning Zone With More Than 150 Companies

September 18, 2026 at 09:15 EDT

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The 23rd China-ASEAN Expo opened in Nanning with artificial intelligence placed at the center of its trade agenda, including a 10,000-square-meter Nanning AI Compound featuring more than 150 AI companies. The five-day event is positioning AI not as a side exhibition, but as a commercial bridge between Chinese technology suppliers and ASEAN markets.

Sept. 17-21, 2026 · China-ASEAN Expo

AI moves onto the trade floor

Nanning's new AI-focused zone turns the 23rd China-ASEAN Expo into a test of how AI products, matchmaking and regional commerce can converge.

10,000

square meters in the AI zone

150+

AI companies represented

8,000

enterprise pairs pre-matched

US$1T+

China-ASEAN trade in 2025

From exhibition space to AI-assisted matching

1,000

ASEAN enterprises

2,200

Chinese companies

8,000

pre-matched pairs

Each stacked column is scaled to the reported count, showing how matchmaking volume exceeds the exhibitor base.

Upside

Companies get a concentrated route to localization, procurement and distribution across Southeast Asia.

Constraint

Durable adoption still depends on language support, regulation, data quality and after-sales service.

Why it matters

The expo frames AI as trade infrastructure: a featured industry, a matchmaking layer and a way to push Chinese technology into ASEAN use cases.

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