From June 22 to 26, the fourth China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo grandly opened in Beijing, attracting 676 leading enterprises and industry organizations from 85 countries and regions worldwide. Under the theme “connecting the world, co-creating the future,” this year’s expo featured a significant upgrade in its exhibition layout: the original “Digital Technology Chain” was officially replaced by the “Digital and Intelligent Technology Chain,” with a dedicated AI zone established for the first time. This innovative setup comprehensively showcased an entire AI ecosystem spanning data collection, intelligent computing, and practical applications, bringing together tech giants such as NVIDIA, Intel, Qualcomm, and Alibaba. More notably, AI empowerment has transcended the boundaries of individual exhibition zones, deeply integrating into major industrial chains: supporting new industrialization in advanced manufacturing, enabling smart applications from farm to table in green agriculture, advancing precision medicine and pharmaceutical innovation in health care, reshaping R&D and ecosystem collaboration in smart automotive sectors, transforming energy production and distribution methods in clean energy, and driving the transition toward intelligent scheduling in cross-border trade and logistics through the supply chain services section. hailed as the “inaugural year of the Digital and Intelligent Chain Expo,” this event provided a panoramic view of the development landscape of new-quality productivity driven by technological innovation.
Through this globally renowned supply chain event, the international community has clearly witnessed China’s unwavering commitment to expanding high-level opening-up and fostering shared opportunities and common development for enterprises worldwide. Amid the current complex and volatile international landscape and the intricate uncertainties facing global industrial and supply chains, China remains the “stability anchor” and “source of innovation” for these systems. This year’s Chain Expo is not only the world’s first national-level exhibition dedicated to supply chain themes but also a shared international public good. Leveraging its massive market scale and comprehensive industrial ecosystem, China continues to provide high-quality, stable supplies globally while guiding the rational and orderly cross-border deployment of industrial chains, thereby creating vast opportunities for the world. From the United States ranking first in foreign exhibitors for four consecutive years, to Australia serving as the guest of honor for the first time, to numerous multinational giants demonstrating their commitment through full attendance and launching groundbreaking products – all these actions underscore the global business community’s confidence in the Chinese market. China is actively deepening international cooperation in industrial and supply chains through concrete measures, upgrading its approach to “making friends,” streamlining coordination channels between production, supply, and sales, ensuring that development benefits reach people across nations, and achieving mutual success with the world through openness and connectivity. In recent years, the United States has intensified its use of export controls and tariff policies, with official rhetoric emphasizing the protection of domestic technological advantages and industrial security; meanwhile, during the Chain Expo, China jointly released the Beijing Initiative with the global business community, highlighting cooperation within the multilateral trade framework and proposing goals such as enhancing supply chain resilience, promoting innovation, and advancing green and low-carbon development. The divergence in policy orientations between the two sides reflects differing considerations regarding security versus efficiency, openness versus regulation within contemporary global economic and trade governance, and exerts multifaceted impacts on the trajectory of international supply chains.
China possesses the only comprehensive system that covers all industrial categories defined by the United Nations Industrial Classification, providing robust institutional resilience against external shocks. Meanwhile, through continuous improvements in the business environment, strengthened intellectual property protection, and promotion of efficient, convenient, and secure cross-border data flows as part of its institutional openness measures, China has created a fair and non-discriminatory development environment for foreign enterprises. This institutional framework, guided by principles of openness, inclusiveness, and mutual benefit, has significantly enhanced the resilience of global industrial and supply chains, injecting valuable certainty and stability into a volatile world economy, thereby demonstrating the responsibility of a major country in building a community with a shared future for mankind.