Budapest, 30–31 October 2025 — One of the world’s largest industrial exhibition series supported by the Chinese state, the Shanghai Fair Trade Show (CIIF), will be presented this year in Budapest, in Pavilion D of Hungexpo. The original fair is one of the largest annual international showcases of the Chinese industrial sector, and in October this year it will also arrive in the Hungarian capital. The event is supported, among others, by the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
In its home country, the event spans more than 280,000 m² and operates with nine thematic pavilions, including machinery manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, green technologies, new materials, energy, and industrial digital innovation. At the Budapest event, medical-technology manufacturers and household electronics companies will also be present. The purpose of the exhibition is to showcase China’s high-tech industry and the latest developments in smart manufacturing, industrial digitalisation, artificial intelligence and green industrial technologies to the global market, while creating new trade partnerships — including in Hungary.
Approximately 130 high-tech enterprises from the Shanghai region will take part in the Budapest showcase, representing a wide range of sectors. At the Hungexpo event, the organisers aim to create significant opportunities for Hungarian companies to gain direct access to cutting-edge industrial technologies, suppliers and developers. The Shanghai Fair Trade Show is therefore not just an industrial exhibition, but a primary “trendsetter” platform for global industrial, digital and green technological innovations — and its Budapest edition represents a major opportunity for the local business community.
Attendance at the event is free of charge, but requires registration. Since the exhibition focuses on creating new partnerships with Hungarian companies, the organisers offer not only business matching meetings, but also specialist-language interpreters and meeting-arrangement services. This rare opportunity may grant immediate market and technological advantages to Hungarian participants — at last year’s Shanghai event, for example, more than 1,500 such one-to-one business meetings were organised.
The Shanghai “parent exhibition” functions as an innovation laboratory every year: in 2024, for example, several Chinese startups introduced their own AI-based industrial robot solutions or breakthrough new battery technologies for green-energy storage here for the very first time.
