Approved by the Ministry of Commerce! This international decorative lighting event will kick off in March!
December22, 2025, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China issued the "Approval for Holding the 2026 China (Guzhen) International Decorative Lighting Expo (Spring)", agreeingtohold the 2026 China (Guzhen) International Decorative Lighting Expo (Spring)(abbreviated as: the 34th Guzhen Lighting Expo) from March 18-21, 2026, at the Guzhen Conference and Exhibition Center in Zhongshan, Guangdong.
Positioning upgrade, anchoring globally: A spring grand event for a trillion-yuan cluster
This approval by the Ministry of Commerce not only affirms the Guzhen Lighting Expo's outstanding status in the lighting and decorative lighting exhibition industry over the years, but will also promote the expo to become an important hub linking global supply and demand and leading technological trends,helping decorative lighting enterprises seize market opportunities under the new development pattern of the industry.
This edition of the exhibition is themed "Guzhen Decorative lighting, Illuminating the World", precisely targeting the golden period of "spring procurement" to create an international, market-oriented, and professional one-stop procurement and sales platform. Based in Guzhen's trillion-level lighting Industry cluster—gathering over 30,000 upstream and downstream enterprises, controlling nearly 70% of global Luminaire supply. The exhibition transforms industrial "depth" into commercial "profundity", laying a strong foundation for global lighting trade throughout the year.
The impressive results of previous editions fully demonstrate the global appeal of the Guzhen Lighting Expo:
The previous spring exhibition attracted 107,307 visits of professional attendees, among whom 5,034 overseas buyers came from afar, covering 120 countries and regions, with both the number of people and source countries/regions reaching a new historical high for the spring exhibition. Manufacturers and Dealers / Distributors accounted for about 50% in total, and over 78% of the attendees were corporate management, reflecting the exhibition's professional influence and commercial value in the domestic lighting Industry.
The main venue of the 34th Guzhen Lighting Expo—the Light Capital Guzhen Convention and Exhibition Center—links with 8 major professional Luminaire malls in the town to construct a "1+8+N" Grand Lighting Expo pattern, with a total exhibition area exceeding 1.5 million square meters, where over 3,600 brands bring 100,000 original new products to the stage together, covering full-category tracks such as Smart lighting / Intelligent lighting, healthy light environments, zero-carbon light-storage integration, cultural tourism night tours, special-purpose luminaires, and intelligent manufacturing equipment.
It is worth noting that the main venue Halls A-H feature a new layout with complementary functions: From core light sources to finished luminaires, from single product displays to scenario-based solutions, providing a one-stop service to meet the diverse needs of buyers, designers, contractors, and more.
Hall A focuses on smart lighting and flagship zones for leading brands;
Hall B specializes in decorative, residential, and commercial lighting;
Hall C covers outdoor and cultural tourism lighting solutions;
Halls D and E mainly feature machinery, equipment, accessories, and auxiliary materials;
Hall F centrally showcases decorative lighting, smart home products, hardware & sanitary ware, and soft furnishings ;
Halls G and H attract more emerging "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" brands .
As the industry's "barometer," the 34th Guzhen Lighting Fair anchors itself to the hotspots of global lighting industry development, centrally presenting three major trends:
1. Intelligent lighting , focusing on IoT+AI integration technology, showcasing smart emotional interaction systems and full-scenario linkage solutions;
2. Green and low-carbon, deploying off-grid lighting and integrated photovoltaic energy storage products , responding to the global carbon neutrality trend and seizing the opportunity in the off-grid energy storage market;
3. Healthy light environments, focusing on Human centric lighting (HCL), circadian rhythm regulation, and age-friendly design, showcasing new full-spectrum eye-care products , responding to consumption upgrades and new demands for healthy living.
Meanwhile, the exhibition will gather a large number of "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" enterprises , building a robust brand matrix, centrally showcasing frontier technologies such as zero-carbon optical storage, intelligent dimming, and high-end customization, using the "Product + Scenario", "Technology + Application", "Originality + Art" new model to break the deadlock of homogenization, empowering enterprises for high-quality global expansion and transformation.
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"The whole year's work depends on a good start in spring." To meet the demand of the spring procurement peak season, the 34th Guzhen Lighting Fair has comprehensively upgraded its global trade service system, striving to build an efficient trade bridge. The exhibition aims for "precise matching and efficient transactions", and will focus on inviting core buyer procurement teams from the Belt and Road Initiative, gathering global purchasing power.
At the same time, we will launch multiple high-specification supply-demand matchmaking sessions, adopting a dual-matching mechanism of "Smartalgorithm + manual review", to collect and integrate buyer lists and requirements in advance, achieving efficient docking with "meet and talk immediately, talk and sign immediately".
In terms of communication and traffic attraction, this exhibition will collaborate with 150+ domestic and international mass and professional media, portals, and social platforms, building an integrated online-offline omnichannel traffic matrix, precisely covering the full-chain buyer groups including purchasers, dealers/distributors, contractors, cross-border e-commerce players, and designers, amplifying the exhibition's trade value across all channels.
From the official approval by the Ministry of Commerce establishing a solid foundation of authority, to the scale upgrade expanding the industry stage with over 1.5 million square meters of exhibition area, to the precise layout of three major trends anchoring the development direction, and the efficient empowerment of global trade activating market vitality, the 2026 China (Guzhen) International Decorative Lighting Expo (Spring) is no longer just an industry exhibition, but a "window of opportunity" illuminating the future of the lighting industry.
From March 18 to 21, let's meet in Guzhen, Zhongshan, to attend this grand event of the lighting industry linking global business opportunities.
March 18-21, 2026
The 34th Guzhen Lighting Fair
Meet at the Guzhen Conference and Exhibition Center in Guzhen Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province
Join us in shaping the future of light and shadow
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Source: Guzhen Lighting Fair