SHANGHAI – October 16, 2026 -- Suzhou-based Jodell Robotics, backed by a strategic industrial investment from Fortune Global 500 company Midea Group, launched three products at CIIF. It claims annual capacity above 100,000 units and more than 6,000 customers served worldwide.

Shenzhen – October 16, 2026 -- C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN, FILM & TAPE EXPO and a wider program of co-located industrial technology exhibitions will run October 27-29, 2026, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, with a 240-hour visa-free transit policy open to eligible visitors from 57 countries.

C-TOUCH & DISPLAY features a TGV glass substrate zone in Hall 16

C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN 2026 will cover AI+AR smart glasses, Micro LED, OLED, automotive displays, smart cockpits and advanced semiconductor packaging.

Chongqing – October 16, 2026 -- HiTHIUM doubled its cumulative energy storage shipments from 100GWh in August 2025 to 200GWh within a year, the company said at a milestone ceremony on October 15 at its Chongqing manufacturing base.

HiTHIUM climbs from fifth to Global Top 2 in storage rankings

Shipments began at the end of 2021. The company's global ranking rose from fifth in 2023 to third in 2024, and to Global Top 2 in 2025 and the first half of 2026. HiTHIUM attributes the climb to cost leadership, service, and safety and reliability.

Shanghai – October 15, 2026 -- RoboParty has launched RP1 (ROBOTO 01), a humanoid robot with open access to its hardware designs, low-level drivers, control algorithms and software stack, aimed at embodied AI research. The standard version stands about 1.3 meters tall with 24 actuated degrees of freedom (DoF), while the Pro version offers 30.

Beijing – October 15, 2026 -- The Canton Fair has grown from 9,600 square meters and 1,200 buyers in April 1957 to 1.55 million square meters and around 340,000 buyers, as the 140th edition opened on Wednesday with Phase 1 featuring more than 25,000 booths and over 12,000 exhibitors.

Beijing – October 15, 2026 -- Linyi Trade City, a regional commodity hub in east China's Shandong Province, has opened an international sourcing center with 324 corporate tenants. Cross-border transport costs for related goods fall by about 20 percent through the center's logistics facilities.

More than 100 foreign buyers visit on opening day

Over 100 foreign purchasers visited the center on its September 28 opening. Sales staff at a local chemical trading firm's stores received several groups of foreign buyers.

Shanghai – October 15, 2026 -- WuXi XDC (2268.HK) has won "Best CDMO" at the 2026 World ADC Awards for the fourth consecutive year and "Best CRO" for the second, making it the only contract research, development and manufacturing organization (CRDMO) to take both titles two years running.

Vienna – October 15, 2026 -- Huawei has unveiled its Next Generation OTN solution, offering 800G to 2T capacity for data center interconnection (DCI), as the core of a "LIGHTS" all-optical network aimed at AI data center (AIDC) traffic. The company presented the concept at the Optical Transport Innovation Summit during NetworkX 2026.

Beijing – October 15, 2026 -- TAL Education Group (NYSE: TAL) will release unaudited results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2027 before the U.S. market opens on Thursday, October 29, 2026. The quarter ended August 31, 2026.

TAL schedules live call for 8:00 a.m. Eastern on October 29

The China-based smart learning solutions provider will host a conference call and live webcast at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time, which is 8:00 p.m. in Beijing. The call follows the results release on the same day.

Guangzhou – October 15, 2026 -- GETO will exhibit green building formwork, scaffolding, prefabricated construction and modular housing across two booths at Phase 2 of the 140th Canton Fair, running October 23 to 27 in Guangzhou.

GETO splits its Canton Fair presence between formwork and modular housing booths

The formwork and scaffolding booth is located in Hall 13.1, F05-07 and E41-42. The modular housing booth is in Hall 12.0, B03.