The 34th Ancient Town Lantern Expo kicks off, building a new pattern of "five exhibitions a year" for global trade and exhibition

On March 18th, the 2026 China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair (Spring) opened at the Dengdu Guzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in Zhongshan, Guangdong. This exhibition has received approval from the Ministry of Commerce for the first time, with the theme of "Ancient Town Lighting Illuminates the World". It adopts a "1+8+N" exhibition store linkage model, with the main venue and 8 sub venues. The total exhibition area exceeds 1.5 million square meters, gathering more than 3600 enterprises and over 100000 new products.

During the exhibition, the Guzhen Lantern Expo brand announced the implementation of a dual wheel drive of "source mother exhibition+core city special exhibition", building a new pattern of "five exhibitions per year". In addition to the local spring, summer, and autumn exhibitions, special exhibitions will be added in Shanghai (March 31st April 3rd) and Guangzhou (May 11th May 13th), focusing on high-end engineering design and channel franchise expansion, respectively, to promote precise docking of source production capacity with the core markets of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta.

At the opening ceremony, Guzhen Town signed contracts with Tmall and JD.com to launch an online section called "Guanghuoxing Tianxia Guzhen Lighting Special Session", connecting online and offline commercial channels. As of the opening, nearly 70000 people have registered with their real names at the main venue, and over 4500 people have registered from more than 130 countries and regions overseas, indicating a continuous improvement in internationalization.