As a core cluster hub of China’s wire and cable industry, Guangdong boasts a complete upstream and downstream industry chain, strong smart manufacturing capabilities, and prominent geographical advantages in foreign trade. It deeply influences the core markets of South China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia, serving as a central hub for China’s wire and cable product exports and industry internationalization, and holding a pivotal strategic position in the nation’s wire and cable industry development landscape.
Currently, China’s wire and cable industry is in a phase of deep transformation and upgrading, where opportunities and challenges coexist. Globally, overseas infrastructure investment continues to ramp up and the new energy power industry is expanding rapidly, providing vast growth potential for Chinese wire and cable enterprises to go global and expand their international footprint. However, industry pain points are increasingly prominent: core raw material prices such as copper and aluminum are subject to wild swings, heightening corporate cost control risks; severe homogenization of industry capacity and intensifying low-price involution are continuously squeezing profit margins, and traditional production and operation models have hit a development bottleneck. Amid this industrial transformation, digitalized management, intelligent upgrades, and lean cost reduction and quality improvement have become key breakthrough paths for wire and cable enterprises to navigate market risks, break away from low-price involution, build core competitiveness, and achieve sustainable long-term development.
To fully leverage the advantages of industrial clustering in South China, precisely address industry pain points, and boost regional wire and cable industry quality improvement, efficiency gains, and iterative upgrading, the was grandly held at the Wyndham Hotel, Guangzhou Design Capital, Guangdong, July 14-15. The conference was hosted by SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. (SMM) and Shandong Aisi Information Technology Co., Ltd., co-organized by Guangxi Dasheng Power Equipment Co., Ltd., and strongly supported by Solarabic Mideast New Energy Media and the Guangdong Provincial Association for the Promotion of Industry and Trade Development.
The conference featured a rich agenda with numerous highlights, including a company tour of Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd., opening remarks, themed presentations by industry guest speakers, and a gala dinner. Leveraging SMM’s entire industry chain data strengths and high-quality upstream and downstream resources both in and outside China, the conference focused on four core areas: accurate market analysis, industrial transformation and upgrading, supply-demand resource matching, and empowerment of go-global channels. It provided comprehensive support to South China wire and cable enterprises in gaining insight into industry development trends, learning from digital and intelligent transformation experiences, integrating premium supply chain resources, and expanding international go-global pathways, thereby consolidating regional industrial synergy and propelling the South China wire and cable industry toward a new stage of high-quality, high-end, and internationalized development.
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July 15
Main Forum
Opening Remarks by the Organizer
Zhou Bai, Executive Vice President of SMM
Tang Jianqin, General Manager of Guangxi Dasheng Power Equipment Co., Ltd.
Hou Shaofan, President of the Guangdong Provincial Association for the Promotion of Industry and Trade Development
SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. & Guangxi Dasheng Power Equipment Co., Ltd. Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony
(09:30-09:40)
Guest Speaker Presentations
Presentation Topic: Analysis of the Impact of Energy and Power Development on the Wire and Cable Industry During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period
Guest Speaker: Han Wende, General Manager of China Electricity Council (Beijing) Electric Power Detection Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
(09:40-10:10)
Presentation Topic: Review of Copper and Aluminum Prices in H1 2026 and Analysis of New Variables in the Go-Global Market
Guest Speaker: Long Huachen, General Manager of SMM South China Office
(10:10-10:40)
Presentation Topic: Copper Spot and Futures Price Fluctuations and the Current Status of the Wire and Cable Industry
Guest Speaker: Hou Shaofan, Chairman of Shenzhen Bendakang Cable Co., Ltd.
(10:40-11:10)
Presentation Topic: Application of Derivative Instruments by Real-Economy Copper Enterprises
Guest Speaker: Feng Chenchuang, General Manager of OTC Derivatives Department, Shanghai Dongwu Jiuying Investment Management Co., Ltd.
(11:10-11:40)
Presentation Topic: Challenges and Opportunities for Distribution Networks Under the New-Type Power System
Guest Speaker: Zheng Yaodong, Honorary Chairman of the Major Scientific Research Team on Energy Storage and Renewable Energy at China Southern Power Grid; Qiushi Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University
(14:00-14:30)
Presentation Topic: China’s Opportunities in the Power Transformation of the Middle East and Africa: Supply Chain, Standards, and Localization
Guest Speaker: Li Delan, Head of Solarabic China
(14:30-15:00)
Presentation Topic: Research and Development Trends of Copper-Based Thermal Management Materials
Guest Speaker: Li Zhou, Dean of the School of Materials at Central South University
(15:10-15:40)
Presentation Topic: Digital Transformation of Factories and Cost Reduction and Efficiency Gains through Intelligent Manufacturing
Guest Speaker: Yan Liangfeng, Director of Intelligent Manufacturing at Wanma United Holding Group Co., Ltd.
(15:40-16:10)
Presentation Topic: Towards 2030: Global PV End-Use Market Trends Outlook
Guest Speaker: Wang Shanyu, Senior PV Analyst at SMM
(16:10-16:40)
Presentation Topic: A Brief Analysis of the Enamelled Wire Industry
Guest Speaker: Xie Langsheng, Sales Center Director at Guangdong Jinyan Electrical Technology Co., Ltd.
(16:40-17:20)
Banquet Dinner
(18:10-20:00)
Check-in & Networking
July 14
Company Tour — Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd.
Introduction to Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd.
Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as Panyu Cable Group) was established in 1969 and has been in operation for 57 years. It is a group enterprise integrating R&D, manufacturing, and sales. For 23 consecutive years, it has been recognized as a high-tech enterprise and has received honors including National Green Factory, National Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise, Specialized and Sophisticated Enterprise (SRDI), Guangdong Provincial Government Quality Award Nomination, and Integrity and Credit Demonstration Enterprise.
Panyu Cable Group specializes in a full range of power transmission and distribution products rated 35kV and below, new alloy materials, specialty cables, and energy storage and new energy ancillary products. It boasts a provincial-level technology center, an engineering research center, and a national CNAS-accredited testing laboratory. One third of the group's employees are dedicated to R&D and technical work. On average, it carries out nearly 30 innovation projects annually and has cumulatively applied for over 1,400 patents, of which 832 are granted, including 208 core invention patents.
The group's products have obtained certifications and accreditations from 23 countries and regions. It has established strategic partnerships with Fortune Global 500 companies such as Huawei, China Southern Power Grid, State Grid, and Midea. It also actively participates in various infrastructure projects, including the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Baiyun Airport, and the Belt and Road Initiative. Panyu Cable Group adheres to the business philosophy of "Customer First, Quality as the Foundation, Integrity Foremost, Innovation-Driven," and is committed to providing customers with high-quality products and services, contributing to the country's high-quality development!
