[Live] Analysis of Power Cable Development Patterns in the 15th Five-Year Plan, Copper and Aluminum Market Analysis, Exploring Opportunities in the Middle East and Africa, and Outlook for PV Enamelled Wire

As a core national hub for the wire and cable industry, Guangdong boasts a complete upstream and downstream industry chain, strong intelligent manufacturing capabilities, and outstanding foreign trade location advantages. It exerts deep influence across South China, Hong Kong and Macao, and key Southeast Asian markets, serving as a central hub in China for wire and cable product exports and the industry’s international expansion, and occupying a pivotal strategic position in the national wire and cable industry landscape.

At present, China’s wire and cable industry is in a period of profound transformation and upgrading, with opportunities and challenges coexisting. Globally, continued increases in infrastructure investment outside China and the rapid expansion of the new energy power sector are creating broad growth opportunities for China’s wire and cable enterprises to go global, expand into new markets, and advance international deployment. At the same time, the industry’s pain points are becoming increasingly prominent: wild swings in the prices of key raw materials such as copper and aluminum are intensifying risks in enterprise cost control; severe homogenization of industry capacity and escalating low-price involution are continuously compressing profit margins, and traditional production and operating models have encountered development bottlenecks. Against this backdrop of industry change, achieving digitalized management and control, intelligent upgrading, and lean cost reduction with quality and efficiency improvement has become a critical breakthrough path for wire and cable enterprises to hedge against market risks, break out of low-price involution, build core competitiveness, and realize sustainable long-term development.

To fully leverage South China’s industrial clustering advantages, precisely address the industry’s development pain points, and support quality and efficiency improvement and iterative upgrading of the regional wire and cable industry, on July 14-15, 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, a Middle East new energy industry media outlet, and the Guangdong Provincial Industry and Trade Development Promotion Association, the was grandly held at the Wyndham Guangzhou Design Capital Hotel in Guangzhou, Guangdong.

This conference featured a rich agenda and numerous highlights, including a company tour of Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd., opening remarks, keynote sharing by industry guests, a conference banquet, and other sessions. Leveraging SMM’s entire industry chain data advantages and high-quality upstream and downstream resources in and outside China, the conference focused on four core directions—precise market analysis, industrial transformation and upgrading, supply and demand resource matchmaking, and empowerment of go-global channels—providing comprehensive support for South China wire and cable enterprises to gain insight into industry trends, learn from digital and intelligent transformation experience, integrate high-quality supply chain resources, and broaden international go-global pathways, thereby consolidating regional industrial synergy and driving 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 Organizers

SMM Executive Vice President Zhou Bai

Tang Jianqin, General Manager of Guangxi Dasheng Power Equipment Co., Ltd.

Hou Shaofan, President of the Guangdong Provincial Industry and Trade Development Promotion Association

Signing Ceremony

Strategic Cooperation Signing between SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. & Guangxi Dasheng Power Equipment Co., Ltd.

Guangxi Dasheng Power Equipment Co., Ltd. and SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement on site at the. This cooperation is not only an important practice of complementary strengths and resource sharing between the two sides, but also another active exploration of collaborative development of the industry chain. In the future, the two parties will further deepen cooperation in industrial resource integration, market expansion, and information services, jointly contributing to the high-quality development of the wire and cable industry.

Guangxi Dasheng Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd. & Hangtian Electric Group Co., Ltd. Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony

Guangxi Dasheng Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd. and Hangtian Electric Group Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement on-site at the . This joint signing achieved mutual empowerment of the two enterprises in technology, channels, and resources, breaking down barriers to upstream and downstream collaboration in the industry chain. Both sides will continue to integrate industrial factors, jointly expand market territories, and build a platform for industry information exchange, concentrating efforts to promote the quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, and steady development of the wire and cable industry.

Guangxi Dasheng Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd. & Zhejiang Zhengtai Cable Co., Ltd.Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony

Guangxi Dasheng Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Zhengtai Cable Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement on-site at the . This signing is a vivid practice of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain uniting and empowering each other. Taking the signing as a new starting point for cooperation, the two parties will fully integrate products, channels, and industrial resources, continuously expand diverse cooperation scenarios, concentrate on building a platform for industrial collaborative development, jointly promote the transformation and upgrading of the wire and cable industry, and jointly construct a new blueprint for industry development.

Guest Speeches

Speech 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.

Speech 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

Speech Topic: Fluctuations in Copper Spot and Futures Prices and the Current Status of the Wire and Cable Industry

Guest Speaker: Hou Shaofan, Chairman of Shenzhen Bendixcon Co., Ltd.

(10:40-11:10)

Speech Topic: Application of Derivative Instruments for Copper Physical Enterprises

Guest Speaker: Feng Chenchuang, General Manager of the OTC Derivatives Department of Shanghai Dongwu Jiuying Investment Management Co., Ltd.

(11:10-11:40)

Speech Topic: Challenges and Opportunities for Distribution Networks Under New-Type Power Systems

Guest Speaker: Zheng Yaodong, Honorary Director of the Major Scientific Research Team on Energy Storage and Renewable Energy of China Southern Power Grid; Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University Qiushi College

(14:00-14:30)

Speech 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)

Speech Topic: Research and Development Trends of Copper-Based Thermal Management Materials

Guest Speaker: Li Zhou, Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University

(15:10-15:40)

Speech Topic: Digital Transformation of Factories and Intelligent Manufacturing for Cost Reduction and Efficiency Enhancement

Guest Speaker: Yan Liangfeng, Intelligent Manufacturing Director of Wanma United Holding Group Co., Ltd.

(15:40-16:10)

Speech Topic: Towards 2030: Outlook on the Global PV End-Use Market Trends

Guest Speaker: Wang Shanyu, Senior PV Analyst at SMM

(16:10-16:40)

Speech Topic: A Brief Analysis of the Enamelled Wire Industry

Guest Speaker: Xie Langsheng, Sales Center Director of 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.