Officially announced! The 94th China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) and its related brand exhibitions will be held in Beijing from October 21-24 at the Capital International Convention and Exhibition Center. A global medical extravaganza.

The 94th CMEF Officially Announced

The 94th China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) and its related brand exhibitions, themed "Open Beijing, Healthy World," will be held from October 21-24 at the Capital International Convention Center in Beijing. Positioned as the annual flagship exhibition in the health industry, this grand event will cover 270,000 square meters, bringing together over 5,000 exhibitors and more than 300,000 professional visitors. More than 170 conferences and events will be held concurrently, comprehensively connecting the entire medical, pharmaceutical, and health industries. Guided by the "15th Five-Year Plan" and responding to Beijing's strategy for high-quality development of the medical and pharmaceutical industry, the exhibition aims to help Beijing build a globally influential innovation hub for healthcare. Through "exhibition-city integration" and "exhibition-industry integration," it will revitalize the industry, connect global resources, and present an unprecedented, rich, and innovative industry event for global industry professionals. It will also build a core bridge for exhibitors to connect with top-level resources in the capital and expand into global markets.

Global Benchmark, Comprehensive Industry Coverage

This Beijing exhibition, guided by the theme "Open Beijing, Healthy World," aims to become the world's leading industry benchmark exhibition in the medical, pharmaceutical, and healthcare sectors, boasting the broadest coverage and the most complete industry chain. Breaking away from the limitations of single-sector exhibitions, it comprehensively covers the entire medical, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industry chain, achieving seamless integration of "R&D-production-distribution-application-service," encompassing core areas such as AI healthcare, precision medicine, high-end medical equipment, innovative drugs and devices, rehabilitation and elderly care, modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, and health consumption.

As a global trendsetter in the healthcare industry, CMEF, since its inception in 1979, has accumulated over 40 years of experience and has become a core exchange platform for the global healthcare industry. Simultaneously, CMEF, in conjunction with its subsidiary brands such as ICMD and Rehabilitation and Elderly Care, constructs a full-chain exhibition matrix, truly achieving "leading scale and comprehensive industry coverage," becoming one of the most anticipated core events in the global medical and pharmaceutical industry in 2026.

Location-Driven Development & Strategic Alignment

As the capital city, Beijing possesses both unparalleled locational advantages and a profound industrial foundation. It serves as a core hub for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, a national center for political, economic, cultural, and international exchanges, and a national center for medical technology innovation, policy leadership, and international exchange. Its convenient transportation, adjacent to Beijing Capital International Airport, makes it a core node for the aggregation, flow, and radiation of global medical and health resources. This allows for rapid linkage with key domestic medical industry clusters and efficient access to global resources, providing natural support for the international and professional presentation of the exhibition. Simultaneously, Beijing has introduced special policies to safeguard the development of innovative medical care. Nine departments have jointly launched comprehensive support measures covering clinical trials, review and approval, medical insurance payment, and investment and financing, coupled with policies such as customs clearance facilitation and localized production support. This achieves a deep integration of locational advantages and policy dividends, laying a solid foundation for the exhibition to empower industrial development.

Currently, Beijing is fully promoting the high-quality development of the medical and pharmaceutical industry, clarifying the core direction of "innovation-led, cluster-based, industry-city integration, and global linkage," focusing on key areas to build a full-chain innovation ecosystem, and striving to create a globally influential medical and health innovation hub. The return of this Sinopharm Reed Exhibitions event to Beijing is a strategic alignment between the capital's industrial development and the high-quality development of the exhibition. Leveraging CMEF's industry influence to achieve "exhibition-industry symbiosis" is both a necessity for revitalizing the capital's industries and an inevitable choice for CMEF to become a global benchmark exhibition, demonstrating a deep resonance between national strategy, the capital's advantages, and industry standards.

Top-Level Support & Comprehensive Protection

The exhibition has received high attention from various levels of government departments and industry platforms in Beijing, forming a comprehensive and multi-layered top-level support system. Numerous commissions, bureaus, and core units have collaborated, and this top-level resource integration signifies that this Beijing exhibition will be a premier industry event in 2026 that precisely aligns with national medical and pharmaceutical policy guidance and gathers cutting-edge global technological achievements.

The exhibition will leverage government resources, planning to collaborate deeply with relevant commissions and bureaus such as health, drug regulation, commerce, and science and technology in areas such as policy interpretation, industry standard guidance, and innovative achievement transformation services. It will bring a series of activities including policy briefings, technology exchanges, and resource matching to the industry, contributing to high-quality industrial development. Simultaneously, it will collaborate with relevant biomedical platforms in Zhongguancun to showcase high-quality enterprises and cutting-edge achievements, highlighting technological leadership. Furthermore, it will work with relevant exhibition units in the capital to ensure the efficient and orderly operation of the exhibition.

Exhibition-Industry Integration: Opportunities Emerge

Under the "exhibition-city integration" and "exhibition-industry integration" models, relying on Beijing's policy advantages, industrial foundation, and the exhibition's global influence, participating companies will usher in multiple development opportunities and achieve precise empowerment. The event will feature an innovative product exhibition area and a Beijing-themed medical device exhibition hall. New activities will also be held, including technology transfer and product selection for primary healthcare, comprehensively promoting industry development in five key areas: First, policy alignment opportunities: close interaction with government departments at all levels to accurately grasp the national industrial policy direction for 2026 and obtain targeted guidance on qualification applications and policy support. Second, resource integration opportunities: connecting with innovation resources in parks like Zhongguancun, research institutions, and global industry elites to build a full-chain cooperation network and accelerate technological innovation and technology transfer. Third, market expansion opportunities: leveraging Beijing's core consumer market advantages to expand channels in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and globally, connecting with a vast number of professional buyers. Fourth, brand enhancement opportunities: showcasing core products and innovative achievements on a globally leading industry exhibition platform to enhance brand awareness, especially in cutting-edge fields where a first-mover advantage can be secured. Fifth, industrial synergy opportunities: deeply integrating into the capital's entire industrial ecosystem, leveraging cluster advantages to reduce operating costs and achieve win-win cooperation.

Full-Chain Layout & Multi-Exhibition Collaboration

This year's exhibition continues CMEF's "full industry chain coverage" feature, linking a series of sub-brand exhibitions to form a powerful exhibition matrix, precisely aligning with the capital's industrial development direction. ICMD focuses on the upstream manufacturing sector, showcasing core components for medical devices and supporting the intelligent upgrading of the upstream industry; the Rehabilitation and Elderly Care series exhibitions focus on public health, showcasing brain-computer interfaces, rehabilitation robots, and home medical supplies; the International Smart Health Exhibition gathers cutting-edge achievements in AI healthcare and remote diagnosis, helping Beijing build a high ground for AI medical innovation; the International Healthy Lifestyle Exhibition promotes CMEF's upgrade to "medical + consumption," presenting a full range of scenarios encompassing "medical treatment, prevention, elderly care, and nursing." In addition, cutting-edge products and technologies in core clinical fields such as medical imaging and surgical robots will be showcased, comprehensively demonstrating the global industry's innovative vitality.

The exhibition will also collaborate with PHARMCHINA, a national pharmaceutical trade fair under Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions, and the NHNE China International Health and Nutrition Expo. Each brand exhibition, deeply rooted in its respective niche market and possessing profound experience, will break down industry barriers and facilitate resource sharing, truly achieving full-scenario coverage of "medical + pharmaceutical + health nutrition." This will make the exhibition one of the few global super platforms simultaneously connecting resources across the entire healthcare industry, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and more, further enhancing its scale and influence and providing the industry with broader opportunities for resource exchange.

Academic Empowerment, Intelligent Future

The exhibition adopts a dual-drive model of "exhibition + academic," featuring a newly created "Capital Forum." Simultaneously, over 170 high-level industry forums, academic seminars, and policy interpretation sessions will be held, inviting over a thousand industry experts, business elites, and regulatory representatives from around the world to engage in in-depth discussions on core trends such as AI-driven precision medicine, domestic substitution of medical equipment, implementation of medical insurance policies, and the transformation of innovative drug and medical device achievements. This will resonate with the capital's industrial innovation direction, providing enterprises with cutting-edge industry information and technical references, promoting the exchange of ideas and technological innovation within the industry, and making the exhibition one of the core voices leading the global medical and pharmaceutical industry development trends.

Industry-Exhibition Synergy, Global Collaboration

As a "weathervane" and "barometer" of the global healthcare industry, this Beijing exhibition is not only an important practice of Beijing Municipality in promoting the high-quality development of the medical and pharmaceutical industry and deepening the integration of exhibition and city, and exhibition and industry, but also a highly representative industry event for the global medical and pharmaceutical industry in 2026. Currently, all preparations for the exhibition have been fully launched, and the pre-registration channels for global exhibitors and professional visitors will be opened successively. We invite all sectors of the industry to continue to pay attention and join us in this global industry event where industry and exhibition coexist and inspire the future.

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April 9-12, National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai)

October 21-24, Beijing Capital International Convention Center

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