The 11th China (Shanghai) International Technology Fair (CSITF), with the theme of "Open Cooperation: Empowering New Quality Productive Forces and Sustainable Development," opened yesterday (June 11) at the Expo Exhibition Center. Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng attended and launched the fair.
At the opening ceremony, Fatou Haidara, Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and Anna Macmillan, Director of the Scotland Office of the UK Government, delivered speeches. Johann Löhn, former President and Honorary Lifetime President of the Steinbeis Foundation in Germany, and Zheng Yongnian, Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), delivered keynote speeches. National Innovation Practice Cases in Technology Trade were also released.
Prior to the opening ceremony, Chinese and foreign guests toured the exhibition halls together. Mayor Gong Zheng visited the exhibition areas of Glasgow, the overseas guest city, and Shenzhen, the domestic guest city, as well as the Zhangjiang National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone and the Yangtze River Delta National Technological Innovation Center. He also stopped by the booths of Shanghai Electric, China Merchants Energy Shipping, Cloudpick AI Technology, Shanghai Commercial Cryptography Exhibition Group, Plug and Play China, and others to inspect technological innovations in fields such as green energy, marine engineering, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine.
As an international and comprehensive exhibition in China's technology trade sector, this year's CSITF was held at the Expo Exhibition Center from June 11 to 13. The fair featured four professional technology exhibition areas and two functional areas for technology trading services and promotion activities, with a total exhibition area of 35,000 m². It brought together a batch of innovative achievements from nearly 20 countries and regions overseas as well as from China, attracting nearly a thousand exhibiting enterprises and institutions. A number of new products and technologies will make their debut at the fair. During the exhibition, three thematic day events and nearly 60 supporting activities will be held on topics such as innovation-driven development, intellectual property protection, and the promotion of technology trade.
SMM Trading Center's booth is located in the "Digital Shanghai·Chain Innovation for the Future" exhibition area. As one of the benchmark scenarios for blockchain applications in Shanghai, SMM Trading Center, leveraging the Pujiang Digital Chain blockchain infrastructure, took the lead in initiating and implementing the "Nonferrous Metals Safe Chain" project within the industry. This project connects cooperative warehouses such as SIPGL and cooperative banks like the Bank of Communications, while also introducing the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce as a regulatory node. It achieves full-chain coverage from trading, warehousing, and finance to supervision, forming a multi-party collaborative and trustworthy ecosystem. This effectively promotes the transformation and upgrading of the non-ferrous metals industry towards digitization, intelligence, and security.
