AWE2026 is coming—experience the future of smart living!

From 3.12 to 15, the 2026 China Household Electrical Appliances & Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE2026) will open in Shanghai. Under the theme “AI Technology, Smart Future,” this year’s expo will be held simultaneously at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre and the Shanghai East Hub International Business Cooperation Zone. Spanning a total exhibition area of 17 square meters, it will bring together over 1200 leading domestic and international companies to showcase the full ecosystem of smart living—from cutting-edge technologies and AI applications to intelligent products and end-to-end solutions—highlighting the latest advancements in digitalization, sustainability, and integration driven by AI in the home appliance and consumer electronics industries.

13 venues, thousands of brands—your complete view of smart living

As the main venue of AWE2026, the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (hereinafter “New International Venue”) will span 13 halls with over 14 square meters of exhibition space, hosting more than 1000 exhibitors across categories including AI-powered home appliances, consumer electronics, audio-visual entertainment, fitness & wellness, smart mobility, smart home systems, embodied intelligence, AI applications & hardware, chips, and intelligent components—building a comprehensive and forward-looking brand matrix for smart living.

AI, and various brand booths are full of highlights.

Standing at the key node of the first year of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan", the National Two Sessions in 2026 released a clear signal that the "artificial intelligence" action has been written into the government work report for three consecutive years, and proposed to promote the commercialization of artificial intelligence in key industries. Large-scale application, cultivate a new model of intelligent native new business type. As the most closely related industries integrated with artificial intelligence, the home appliance and consumer electronics industries are accelerating towards a new stage of systematic competition with AI capabilities as the core, scene delivery as the traction, and ecological synergy as the support. Specific to the booth layout and exhibition theme of each exhibitor, it is under the overall framework of AWE2026 "AI technology and enjoying the future", around its own technology and innovation advantages, presenting a unique, experiential and predictable smart life roadmap.

In view of the main economic line of expanding domestic demand in the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, "Breaking through the stock and AI innovation needs -2026 China Home Appliance Innovation Retail Summit" will provide the industry with ideas for breaking the situation. The summit will bring together home appliance enterprises, TOP channels and data research institutions to discuss in depth how to open up a two-way channel between high-quality supply innovation and domestic demand vitality through omni-channel integration and scenario-based experience under the background of the "national subsidy" policy. The conference will release the "2026 Home Appliance Innovation Retail White Paper" to explore the incremental code of the stock market.

"2026 China Home Appliance Industry Chain Conference" will be held with the theme of "Innovation Drives the Overall Situation". This conference not only brings together the innovative achievements of traditional core components such as compressors and motors, but also introduces cutting-edge intelligent solution providers such as chips and sensors to comprehensively build a communication platform for deep integration of upstream and downstream.

AI, the global map of home appliances and consumer electronics is being reconstructed, and AWE is the Storm Eye of this great change and the best platform for the world's top wisdom to resonate at the same frequency. From March 12 to 15, the excitement is imminent. See you in Shanghai AWE2026!