The 2026 Agreement on Trade in Services: A World Symphony of Sharing and Promoting Together
The China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) is an important window for China to expand its high-level opening-up to the outside world, and a key platform for the world to observe the innovative development of China's service industry and share the dividends of China's development.
The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services will be held at Shougang Park in Beijing from September 9th to 13th. As a national level comprehensive exhibition for service trade at the beginning of the 15th Five Year Plan, 90 countries (regions) and international organizations have set up exhibition halls, the first China Service Case Exhibition has been established, and more than 1800 enterprises have participated offline. A batch of new technologies, new services, and new solutions will usher in their first exhibition
Setting sail overseas, China's services benefit the world. Faced with the insufficient growth momentum of the world economy, China is determined to expand high-level opening-up to the outside world. The 2026 Agreement on Trade in Services, a world symphony of sharing and promoting together, is playing between the blast furnace and the exhibition hall in Shougang Park. An 'empowering power' is increasingly becoming a source of confidence for global economic development.
New Release: Debut in the First Show Collection
An open platform that embraces visitors from all directions.
This year's China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) welcomed Norway as the guest of honor and Guangxi as the host province to make a wonderful appearance. The exhibition halls of multiple countries showcased characteristic industries and development achievements. The first China Service Case Exhibition was established to showcase innovative practices in China's service trade; A new overseas service promotion roadshow area has been established to build a bridge between supply and demand for enterprises to set sail overseas. Nine major topics, including finance, culture and tourism, are flourishing, showcasing the strength of China's services and opening the door to accept global wisdom achievements.
Entering Hall 1 of Shougang Park, the exhibition area of Norway, the guest country, is particularly eye-catching. The exhibits of marine health and nutrition, green transformation and industrial technology, design and lifestyle, and other sections are laid out in sequence.
Do you know Norwegian football star Haaland? "At a press conference at the China International Fair for Trade in Services, Hanning, the Commercial Counsellor of the Norwegian Embassy in China and the head of the Norwegian Innovation Agency's China region, introduced that China is Norway's largest trading partner in Asia, with about 160 Norwegian companies operating in China. I hope to use the China International Fair for Trade in Services to continuously expand our cooperation areas
At this year's China International Fair for Trade in Services, a prominent exhibition area featuring Chinese service cases was set up for the first time, becoming a window to observe the development of China's service industry. More than 140 cases cover 12 major fields of service trade, with nearly 40% of them being based on core technologies such as artificial intelligence, large models, and intelligent agents.
Nowadays, a number of cases have firmly established themselves in the international market, demonstrating the strong momentum of China's service going global, "said Park Xuedong, Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce.
At this year's Service Trade Fair, more than 100 enterprises and institutions, including Alibaba and Xinlian Yuanchuang, will showcase over a hundred debut achievements, covering new products and services in fields such as artificial intelligence, healthcare, cultural globalization, and green low-carbon. The World Intellectual Property Organization is participating for the first time in co hosting the Global Service Trade Summit.
Multinational corporations have also demonstrated their expertise: Hong Kong Telecom, as one of the first Hong Kong funded enterprises to expand its value-added telecommunications services and open up to the outside world, focuses on showcasing AI product operations and global network resource services; Schneider Electric brings "one-stop service for the entire lifecycle"; Qualcomm showcases 6G sensing and intelligent classification, intelligent agent AI and augmented reality experience, end-to-end 6G prototype system
From an initial exhibition area of 50000 square meters to the current Shougang Park Convention and Exhibition Town, the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) has grown into the world's largest comprehensive exhibition in the field of trade in services, spanning 14 years.
The heat has also spread out of the park. As a permanent venue, Shougang Park has launched 11 inspection routes, held 74 supporting activities such as cultural exhibitions and consumer markets, and linked with key commercial districts in Beijing.
In the first half of this year, China's service trade delivered a highly valuable report card: the total import and export volume of services was 3.8 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%. Among them, service exports increased by 17.6%, becoming an important engine for foreign trade growth.
Based on the opening year of the 15th Five Year Plan, with exhibitions as a bridge, global wisdom is integrated here, and visitors from all over come to this open invitation. Beijing Deputy Mayor Tang Wenhong said that this year's Service Trade Fair will highlight the linkage between service trade and service consumption, as well as the linkage between service trade and service investment, and aim to make the exhibition economy "more than just exhibitions, with unlimited spillover".
Going Global: China's Service Embarks on a Long Voyage
Discovering the Beauty of China, Enterprises Go Global, Services Follow!
This year, the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) has set up a separate zone for overseas services for the first time. Professional institutions in the fields of finance, law, accounting, intellectual property, etc. made a concentrated appearance, and more than 40 promotional roadshows began one after another.
The current competition faced by enterprises going global is not only about cost-effectiveness, but also comprehensive competition in terms of rule adaptation ability, compliance management ability, risk response ability, etc. "said Li Yao, China Managing Partner of KPMG Global China Business Development Center. The newly established overseas service zone is timely.
Chinese services are accelerating their pace of going global. On August 25th, the Long March 6C Y-1 carrier rocket launched a Chinese made satellite into orbit, providing remote sensing data services for agriculture, ecology, and other fields to Thailand. This is the first time that a Chinese commercial aerospace company has completed the development, launch, and in orbit delivery of a complete satellite to Southeast Asian countries.
In Beijing, more than 20 biopharmaceutical, integrated circuit, and high-end manufacturing enterprises have taken root in the Yizhuang Comprehensive Bonded Zone. After just over half a year of operation, the import and export trade volume on the front line has exceeded 10 billion yuan.
International exhibitions represented by the China International Fair for Trade in Services continue to unleash the "magnetic attraction" of China's cooperation.
In the Shougang Park exhibition area, such stories abound: international trains and cross-border multimodal transport solutions covering dozens of countries and regions; Discovering the Beauty of China "cultural and tourism services connect cultural, technological, and financial resources, allowing overseas visitors to experience the Chinese cultural context
Behind the "look east" of the world is the myriad weather and powerful appeal of Chinese path to modernization.
At present, the overall scale of China's service trade has exceeded 1 trillion US dollars. Li Jun, Director of the Institute of International Trade in Services at the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said, "Service consumption and trade have become important pillars supporting economic growth, smooth circulation, and enhancing competitiveness. China is transitioning from a 'service trade powerhouse' to a 'service trade powerhouse'
In the eyes of delegates and exhibitors, trade in services is an invisible 'invisible hand' that is reshaping the trade landscape. Digital technology empowers thousands of industries, green services are flourishing, and cross-border service exchanges are becoming increasingly close. The China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) will transform cooperation intentions into tangible results, allowing the benefits of openness to reach more countries and their people.
Breaking through the Wall: Open Rules, Discuss and Build Together
Open rules are making trade more efficient. In the past, a box of canned food was shipped from Xiamen Port to Singapore Port, and the bill of lading for the transaction could only be sent between the two countries by express delivery. Now, on the "information and trade chain", the same bill of lading processing only takes 8 minutes, greatly shortening the trade cycle.
Under the joint promotion of the "Two Districts" Office in Beijing and relevant departments in Singapore, this "Credit Trade Chain+TradeTrust" solution enables electronic bills of lading to be circulated across chains between ship owners, shippers, and banks, realizing digital collection, and now covering more categories.
The China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) is not only a showcase for new technologies and achievements, but also a showcase for China's institutional opening-up practices.
In the first half of this year, China's intellectual property usage fee exports increased by 44.3%, and "invisible capabilities" such as research and design are increasingly being traded across borders in the form of services.
The open rules are also being refined one by one. Beijing has taken the lead in expanding the scope of the negative list for data export from the pilot free trade zone to the entire city, covering nine fields including medical devices and trade logistics.
This kind of exploration is not limited to Beijing. Shanghai will connect the international service chain of airplanes, Guangzhou will innovate and develop financial and foreign-related legal services, Chengdu will cultivate a digital cultural and creative export cluster... Various regions are creating distinctive service "business cards".
Deloitte China North and West China Managing Partner Wang Tuoxuan said that the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) is not simply an exhibition for "selling services", but rather a tangible industrial scenario for policy texts to be implemented, promoting the overseas application of Chinese service standards, effectively enhancing understanding among countries, and jointly building rules.
The next step for the development of China's service trade will usher in many favorable conditions, "said Yan Dong, Deputy Minister of Commerce. The implementation of policies and measures such as capacity expansion and quality improvement in the service industry will create a better environment for high-level opening up and high-quality development of service trade.
The blast furnace in Shougang Park has witnessed the turn of an industrial era and the opening of a global agreement.
Through the 2026 Service Trade Fair, the world can see a more open and confident China. From 'Made in China' to 'Chinese Services', from the flow of goods to the alignment of rules, China is writing a new chapter of sharing opportunities with the world with a more open attitude, richer connotations, and more pragmatic achievements.