As the core hub of the national wire and cable industry, Guangdong boasts a complete upstream and downstream industry chain, robust intelligent manufacturing capabilities, and prominent geographic advantages for foreign trade. It deeply radiates into South China, Hong Kong, Macao, and key Southeast Asian markets, serving as a core pivot for wire and cable product exports and the internationalization of the industry. It holds a pivotal strategic position in the national wire and cable industry development landscape.
Currently, China's wire and cable industry is undergoing a deep transformation and upgrade, with both opportunities and challenges. Globally, overseas infrastructure investment continues to ramp up and the new energy power industry is expanding at a high speed, creating broad growth space for China’s wire and cable enterprises to go global and achieve international expansion. However, industry pain points remain prominent: core raw material prices such as copper and aluminum have experienced wild swings, heightening corporate cost control risks; severe homogeneity in industry capacity and intensifying low-price involution in the market are continuously squeezing corporate profit margins, and traditional production and operation models have encountered development bottlenecks. Amid this industry transformation, digitalized management, intelligent upgrading, and lean cost reduction and quality improvement have become key breakthrough paths for wire and cable enterprises to mitigate market risks, break through low-price involution, build core competitiveness, and achieve long-term development.
To fully leverage the advantages of the industrial cluster in South China, precisely address industry pain points, and boost the quality, efficiency, and iterative upgrading of the regional wire and cable industry, on July 14-15, the 2026 SMM (First) South China Wire and Cable Industry Chain Conference, 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 new energy media in the Middle East, and the Guangdong Industry and Trade Development Promotion Association, is grandly held at Wyndham Grand Guangzhou Design City in Guangzhou, Guangdong.
The conference features a rich agenda and numerous highlights, including a company tour of Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd., opening remarks, keynote speeches by industry guests, a banquet dinner, and other segments. Leveraging SMM’s entire industry chain data advantage and high-quality upstream and downstream resources in and outside China, the conference focuses on four core areas: precise market forecasting, industrial transformation and upgrading, supply-demand resource matching, and empowerment of overseas channels. It comprehensively assists wire and cable enterprises in South China to grasp industry development trends, learn from digital and intelligent transformation experiences, integrate high-quality supply chain resources, and broaden international go-global paths, consolidating regional industrial strengths and propelling the South China wire and cable industry toward a new stage of high-quality, high-end, and international development.
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July 14
Company Tour—Guangzhou Panyu Cable Group Co., Ltd.
July 15
Main Forum
Opening Remarks by Organizers
Zhou Bai, Executive Vice President of SMM
Tang Jianqin, General Manager of Guangxi Dasheng Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd.
Hou Shaofan, President of 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 Speech
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 of CEC (Beijing) Electric Power Testing 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 Overseas Markets
Speaker: Long Huachen, General Manager of SMM South China Office
(10:10-10:40)
Topic: Fluctuations in Copper Futures and Spot Prices and the Current State of the Wire and Cable Industry
Speaker: Hou Shaofan, Chairman of Shenzhen Bendixkang Cable Co., Ltd.
(10:40-11:10)
Topic: Application of Derivatives Tools by Copper Physical Enterprises
Speaker: Feng Chenchuang, General Manager of OTC Derivatives Department, Shanghai Dongwu 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 Committee Member of the Key Scientific Research Team for Energy Storage and Renewable Energy at China Southern Power Grid, and Qiushi Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University
(14:00-14:30)
Topic: China's Opportunities in the Power Transition of the Middle East and Africa: Supply Chain, Standards, and Localization
Speaker: Li Delan, Head of Solarabic China
(14:30-15:00)
Topic: Research and Development Trends of Copper-based Thermal Management Materials
Speaker: Li Zhou, Dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University
(15:10-15:40)
Topic: Factory Digital Transformation and Smart Manufacturing to Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency
Speaker: Yan Liangfeng, Director of Smart Manufacturing, Wanma United Holding Group Co., Ltd.
(15:40-16:10)
Topic: Towards 2030: Outlook on Global PV End-User Market Trends
Speaker: Wang Shanyu, Senior Analyst of PV at SMM
(16:10-16:40)
Topic: Brief Analysis of the Enamelled Wire Industry
Speaker: Xie Langsheng, Sales Center Director of Guangdong Jinyan Electric Technology Co., Ltd.
(16:40-17:20)
Banquet Dinner
(18:10-20:00)
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