As a core hub of China's wire and cable industry, Guangdong boasts a complete upstream and downstream industry chain, strong intelligent manufacturing capabilities, and prominent foreign trade advantages. It deeply influences core markets in south China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Southeast Asia, serving as a key gateway for wire and cable exports and international industry expansion, and playing a pivotal strategic role in China's wire and cable industry landscape.
Currently, China's wire and cable industry is in a phase of deep transformation and upgrading, where opportunities and challenges coexist. Globally, the continuous reinforcement of overseas infrastructure and the rapid expansion of the new energy power industry are creating broad growth opportunities for Chinese wire and cable enterprises to go global and expand internationally. At the same time, however, chronic pain points persist: core raw material prices such as copper and aluminum are swinging wildly, exacerbating cost control risks; severe homogenization of capacity and intensifying low-price involution are continuously squeezing corporate profits. The traditional production and operation model has hit a development bottleneck. Amid these industry shifts, leveraging digital management, intelligent upgrading, and lean cost reduction and quality improvement has become the critical path for wire and cable enterprises to mitigate market risks, break free from low-price involution, build core competitiveness, and achieve long-term sustainable development.
To fully leverage the advantages of the south China industrial cluster, precisely address industry pain points, and help the regional wire and cable industry improve quality and efficiency while undergoing iterative upgrading, on July 14-15, the 2026 SMM (1st) South China Wire and Cable Industry Chain Conference was grandly held at the Wyndham Guangzhou Design Capital in Guangzhou, Guangdong. The event was hosted by SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. (SMM) and Shandong Aisi Information Technology Co., Ltd., co-organized by Guangxi Dasheng Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd., and strongly supported by Solarabic, a Middle East new energy industry media, and the Guangdong Industry and Trade Development Promotion Association.
The conference featured a rich agenda and multiple highlights, including a company tour of Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd., opening remarks, thematic presentations by industry guests, and a banquet dinner. Leveraging SMM’s entire industry chain data advantages and high-quality resources from in and outside China, the conference focused on four core directions: precise market analysis, industrial transformation and upgrading, supply-demand resource matching, and empowering go-global channels. It comprehensively assisted south China wire and cable enterprises in discerning industry development trends, learning from digital and intelligent transformation experiences, integrating high-quality supply chain resources, and expanding international go-global avenues, thereby consolidating regional industry synergy and propelling the south China wire and cable industry toward a new development stage of high quality, high-end sophistication, and internationalization.
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July 14
Company Tour – Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd.
July 15
Main Forum
Opening Remarks by the Organizer
Zhou Bai, Executive Vice President, SMM
Tang Jianqin, General Manager, Guangxi Dasheng Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd.
Hou Shaofan, President, Guangdong Industry and Trade Development Promotion Association
(09:20-09:30)
Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony between SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. & Guangxi Dasheng Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd.
(09:30-09:40)
Guest Speeches
Topic: Analysis of the Impact of Energy and Power Development on the Wire and Cable Industry During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period
Speaker: Han Wende, General Manager, CEC (Beijing) Electric Power Detection Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
(09:40-10:10)
Topic: Review of Copper and Aluminum Prices in H1 2026 and Analysis of New Variables in the Go-Global Market
Speaker: Long Huachen, General Manager, SMM South China Office
(10:10-10:40)
Topic: Copper Spot-Futures Spread Fluctuations and the Current State of the Wire and Cable Industry
Speaker: Hou Shaofan, Chairman, Shenzhen Bendakang Cable Co., Ltd.
(10:40-11:10)
Topic: Application of Derivatives Instruments for Copper Physical Enterprises
Speaker: Feng Chenchuang, General Manager, OTC Derivatives Department, Shanghai Soochow Jiuying Investment Management Co., Ltd.
(11:10-11:40)
Topic: Challenges and Opportunities for Distribution Networks Under the New-Type Power System
Speaker: Zheng Yaodong, Honorary Director, Major Scientific Research Team on Energy Storage and Renewable Energy, China Southern Power Grid; Qiushi Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University
(14:00-14:30)
Topic: China's Opportunities in the Middle East and Africa Power Transition: Supply Chain, Standards, and Localization
Speaker: Li Delan, Head of China, Solarabic
(14:30-15:00)
Topic: Research and Development Trends of Copper-Based Thermal Management Materials
Speaker: Li Zhou, Dean, School of Materials, Central South University
(15:10-15:40)
Topic: Factory Digital Transformation and Intelligent Manufacturing for Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement
Speaker: Yan Liangfeng, Director of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wanma United Holding Group Co., Ltd.
(15:40-16:10)
Topic: Towards 2030: Global PV End-Use Market Outlook
Speaker: Wang Shanyu, Senior PV Analyst, SMM
(16:10-16:40)
Topic: A Brief Analysis of the Enamelled Wire Industry
Speaker: Xie Langsheng, Sales Center Director, Guangdong Jinyan Electrical Technology Co., Ltd.
(16:40-17:20)
Banquet Dinner
(18:10-20:00)
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![Copper prices recover, and copper scrap traders actively sell [SMM Secondary Copper Daily Review]](https://imgqn.smm.cn/usercenter/kvwSZ20251217171710.jpg)
