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Timed with the Canton Fair, Connexion ShenZhen 2026 Unveils Major Fourth-Edition Upgrades as a Greater Bay Area Mega Sourcing Event

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SHENZHEN, China, July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — October marks one of China’s most important sourcing seasons, as global buyers travel to South China for the Canton Fair. This year, why not begin the journey just a short distance away in Shenzhen? From October 13-15, 2026, the fourth Connexion ShenZhen, organized by Shanghai Sinoexpo Informa Markets International Exhibition Co., Ltd, will take place at Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center in the same October sourcing window as Canton Fair Phase 1, inviting international visitors to stop in Shenzhen before continuing to Guangzhou and add more suppliers, categories and business opportunities to their South China itinerary. As a one-stop mega sourcing event serving the Greater Bay Area, the show will span 200,000 square meters across nine halls, bringing together 2,000+ exhibitors, 150,000+ professional visitors, two themed exhibitions and ten key sectors covering food and beverage, hospitality, furniture, health, lifestyle, machinery and electronics. Major fourth-edition upgrades include the launch of a dedicated Machinery & Electronic Equipment Themed Exhibition, more than 100 forums, product launches and business-matching activities, an English-language visitor app, and a limited Overseas Buyer Dual-City Package offering accommodation, transport and onsite support. Stop by Shenzhen, then continue to the Canton Fair – and make your South China sourcing journey broader, easier and more productive.

The platform is designed to help buyers compare products, production capabilities, commercial equipment and end-use solutions in one efficient visit – from ingredients and manufacturing through to retail, hospitality and smart commercial applications.

Two Themed Exhibitions, Ten Key Sectors, Endless Opportunities

The Catering, Hotel, Furniture, Health and Lifestyle Themed Exhibition will cover catering food, coffee and tea; hospitality products and design; commercial space and cross-border e-commerce; natural products and health ingredients; and urban lifestyle, gifts and market concepts. These categories will serve buyers across hospitality, foodservice, wellness, retail, interior projects and lifestyle distribution.

The newly added Machinery & Electronic Equipment Themed Exhibition will extend the sourcing journey into food processing and packaging; catering equipment; electronics and electrical appliances; cleaning and property management; and lighting, intelligent systems and smart hotel solutions. It will give international buyers more ways to source across production, commercial operations and customer-facing applications – particularly in fast-growing markets across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Belt and Road economies.

Stop by Connexion Shenzhen and continue to Canton Fair

The new October schedule creates a practical dual-city itinerary for global buyers. Visitors can begin in Shenzhen on October 13-15 to meet suppliers and explore South China’s manufacturing and commercial innovation ecosystem, then continue to Guangzhou for Canton Fair Phase 1. By linking two major sourcing stops in one trip, the route is designed to broaden supplier discovery while helping buyers make better use of their time and travel budget in the Greater Bay Area.

Qualified overseas professional buyers may also apply for the limited Overseas Buyer Dual-City Package. Subject to application review and final confirmation, approved buyers can receive a one-night hotel stay with breakfast, hotel-to-venue transport, an onward shuttle from Shenzhen to Guangzhou or the Canton Fair area, VIP Lounge access, a business lunch and business matchmaking support. Applications close on September 24, 2026, and availability is limited.

An official app built for overseas visitors

The official English-language Connexion ShenZhen app is now available as a practical visitor tool. Overseas buyers can use it to browse show information, exhibitors, products and categories; check hall maps and concurrent events; access tickets, transport and visitor services; and plan their onsite route before arrival. Visitors can search “Connexion ShenZhen” on the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Beyond the exhibition floor, more than 100 forums, competitions, special showcases, product launches, markets and business-matching activities are planned. The program will help buyers identify emerging trends, meet selected suppliers and explore new products and commercial applications across hospitality, lifestyle, machinery and electronics.

Connexion ShenZhen’s international reach continues to grow. The 2025 edition welcomed overseas visitors from 117 countries and regions, demonstrating the platform’s potential for cross-border trade and supplier-buyer connections. With the earlier show dates, the Canton Fair alignment, the new machinery and electronics offering and upgraded English-language services, the 2026 edition is positioned to deliver an even more productive sourcing experience for global professionals.

Plan your visit

Official website: www.connexion.cn/en/
Visitor registration: Register for a free visitor ticket
Overseas Buyer Dual-City Package: View the overseas landing page

About Connexion ShenZhen

Connexion ShenZhen is a flagship one-stop sourcing platform in South China organized by Shanghai Sinoexpo Informa Markets International Exhibition Co., Ltd. The event connects catering, hotel, furniture, health, lifestyle, machinery and electronic equipment industries, bringing together suppliers, buyers, brands and professional communities from China and overseas. The fourth edition will take place from October 13 to 15, 2026, at Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center.

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Tripo AI Releases Latest Model Tripo P2.0, Advancing AI 3D Generation with Production-Ready Assets

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tripo AI unveiled Tripo P2.0, its latest 3D-native foundation model enabling high-fidelity 3D assets generation with quad topology, marking a major breakthrough in generative 3D.

As an upgrade from Tripo Smart Mesh P1.0, P2.0 brings native quad mesh generation, a first for the AI 3D industry, representing a major advance in AI-powered 3D content creation. The model allows 3D creators to move AI-generated 3D content seamlessly into production, addressing one of the longstanding challenges in AI 3D generation.

Following the release of P2.0 Preview in August, the official launch of P2.0 added two new features: multiple versions generation per prompt and Mesh Edit. The model makes it easier than ever for creators to edit, rig, animate and integrate AI generated characters and props into production pipelines.

“Topology has been the wall between AI-generated 3D and real production: game and film pipelines are built on quad meshes, and until now AI got there only through slow, unstable retopology. P2.0 can quickly generate quad-dominant meshes natively, with clean part separation and the edge flow an artist would lay out manually. Production-ready is today’s bar; the longer-term goal for Tripo is to build models that understand, generate and interact with 3D environments,” says Dr. Yanpei Cao, Chief Scientist of Tripo AI.

The model supports both triangle- and quad-based 3D assets generation, offering up to 50,000 faces for triangle topology and up to 25,000 faces for quad topology. With one single prompt, P2.0 allows generation of a maximum of four versions of the same asset with different face counts, giving creators greater flexibility to produce assets with varying levels of complexity and details.

The newly added Mesh Edit feature gives creators direct control over the result. They can select and regenerate any region of a mesh without altering the rest of the asset. Instead of regenerating the whole asset and hoping for a better outcome, creators can refine the asset more precisely, step by step.

The model offers front, back, left and right views of the generated assets, allowing them to closely match users’ intentions.

P2.0 also supports Smart UV which enables creators to unwrap 3D assets into a 2D layout with a single click, making it easier for texturing and further editing.

Designed for games and interactive experiences, Smart Mesh P2.0 helps 3D artists, technical artists and game developers create assets ready for production. It is particularly well suited to generating game characters, hard surface objects such as vehicles, props and buildings, as well as creating 3D assets at scale.

About Tripo AI

Tripo AI is a global leader in the development of 3D-native foundation models and world models. Founded in 2023 by leading scientists in AI and computer graphics, the company has developed a comprehensive end-to-end product ecosystem, built around its proprietary 3D-native foundation models and world models. With Tripo Studio and Tripo API, Tripo AI has transformed 3D generation. Powered by a world-class AI 3D research team, the company is advancing AI toward understanding, generating, and interacting with 3D environments.

Tripo AI’s models and products have been widely adopted by individual users and enterprises globally, serving industries including intelligent manufacturing, virtual reality, interactive entertainment, and embodied AI, empowering enterprises to unlock new productivity and scale applications of generative 3D.

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Xinhua Silk Road: Chinese solutions for meteorological early-warning help more countries tackle climate challenges

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BEIJING, Sept. 21, 2026 /CNW/ — For millennia, as her believers believe, the traditional Chinese sea goddess Mazu has been blessing safe voyages. Now, Chinese meteorological early-warning solutions named after her are helping more countries prevent meteorological disasters.

“MAZU”, released by the China Meteorological Administration at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), is a set of China’s homegrown AI-enabled meteorological solutions featuring universal multi-hazard early warning, alerting and zero-gap coverage.

Supporting cloud-based trials in more than 40 countries, “MAZU” has been applied in countries including Pakistan, Ethiopia, the Solomon Islands, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Djibouti, rapidly expanding its global presence.

As the first set of solutions under the UN Early Warnings for All initiative, “MAZU” integrates AI-based meteorological early-warning models, Fengyun meteorological satellite data, multi-source monitoring products and cloud computing power.

In May this year, “MAZU” was recommended by the World Meteorological Organization at the 11th Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals held at UN headquarters in New York.

Unsurprisingly, “MAZU” caters to the demand for both menu-style solution offerings and highly flexible customized solutions to help relevant countries prevent meteorological disasters caused by climate change.

In Pakistan, where monsoons and rainstorms usually cause torrential floods, an early-warning system co-developed by China and Pakistan was formally embedded in relevant platforms of Pakistan’s meteorological authority.

In Ethiopia, Chinese experts leveraged the integration of data from China’s Fengyun meteorological satellites and local meteorological stations to help local weather forecasters generate high-precision nowcasts via the Fenglei and Fengqing AI models.

In Sri Lanka, the meteorological bureau of southeast China’s Fujian Province is assisting the country in achieving high spatiotemporal resolution precipitation and temperature forecasting.

Apart from the application cases of “MAZU”, nearly 1,000 people from more than 100 developing countries and regions have come to China to receive technology training focused on early warning.

As China is a crucial partner of the Early Warnings for All initiative, its platforms, satellites and AI models have helped dozens of countries enhance their early-warning capacities, noted UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the 2026 WAIC.

Such a mode of cooperation, involving technology transfer, joint R&D and local capacity building to help developing countries better protect their people, is exactly what the world needs now, added Guterres.

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Xinhua Silk Road: “My City, My Home” global visual submission campaign kicks off in Fuzhou for World Cities Day

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BEIJING, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A global call for “My City, My Home” visual submission campaign for the upcoming World Cities Day has officially kicked off in Fuzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province, inviting people around the world to submit photos and short videos to share stories of urban development.

World Cities Day, celebrated annually on October 31 since 2014, is the first UN-designated international day dedicated to cities. Fuzhou will host the Global Observance of World Cities Day 2026.

As part of the Observance, the “My City, My Home” campaign aims to enhance the global influence of World Cities Day, encourage greater public participation, and promote the concept of sustainable urban development through a campaign open to everyone.

According to the announcement for the campaign, individuals, families, communities, schools, social organizations and other groups are all welcome to participate. The submissions should closely reflect the annual theme of this year’s World Cities Day — Regenerating the City: Adequate Housing for All.

Participants should form a square frame with the thumbs and index fingers of both hands to frame scenes that showcase the livability and renewal of their cities, and then take photos or short videos. This signature gesture symbolizes houses that shelter people, evokes the outline of early walled cities, and represents a perspective through which to capture the beauty of cities.

Participants are encouraged to start their videos with opening lines such as “This is my city”. They are also encouraged to include in their photos and videos an introduction to the city and the filming location, the reasons why the selected scene reflects urban regeneration or livability, and personal stories related to the city.

The submission period runs from the date of publication until 11:59 p.m. on October 14 (Beijing Time). Photos and videos may be submitted via Douyin or to the designated email address Mycitymyhome@outlook.com .

Photos and videos may be submitted in either 9:16 vertical or 16:9 horizontal format. Each video should be at least 5 seconds long.

Outstanding submissions will be selected for inclusion in the official campaign video, which will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Global Observance of World Cities Day 2026 in Fuzhou on October 31.

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