"Breaking Through · Moving Towards the New — 2026 Lighting Industry Trends and Innovation Exchange Conference" Successfully Held in Guzhen, Zhongshan

On March 18, 2026, the 2026 Lighting Industry Trends and Innovation Exchange Conference and the Grand Lecture on Quality Improvement and Upgrading of the Lighting Consumer Market, themed "Breaking Through · Moving Towards the New," was grandly held at the Guzhen Conference and Exhibition Center in Zhongshan, known as the "Capital of Decorative Lighting in China."

The event was hosted by the China Association of Lighting Industry（中国照明电器协会）, co-organized by its Talent Training Working Committee, Market Circulation and Service Professional Committee, and Luminaire Professional Committee, and undertaken by Zhongshan Guzhen Dengdu Expo Co., Ltd. and China Light Net (Wuxi Lide Shidai Technology Co., Ltd.), with support from the CPC Zhongshan City Guzhen Town Committee, the People's Government of Guzhen Town, Zhongshan City, and Fudan University Alumni Lighting Classmates Association. The event gathered hundreds of guests, including leaders from industry regulatory authorities, senior experts, representatives of leading enterprises, and professionals from research institutes and testing agencies. They engaged in in-depth discussions on core issues related to the high-quality development of the lighting industry, aiming to break the deadlock of internal competition, explore paths for innovative development, and inject new momentum into the transition of the lighting industry from "product manufacturing" to "value creation."

During the opening remarks, Huang Xianlong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Mayor of Guzhen Town, first extended a warm welcome to the attendees on behalf of the Party Committee and Government of Guzhen Town. He reviewed the 40-year journey of Guzhen Town from an agricultural town to the "Capital of Decorative Lighting in China," pointing out that the town has now gathered over 30,000 decorative lighting market entities, forming a complete supply chain, with the brand value of "Guzhen Decorative Lighting" prominently displayed. Facing the critical stage of the industry's upgrade towards greenization, intelligence, and health, as well as challenges such as changing demands and homogeneous competition, he believed that the "Breaking Through · Moving Towards the New" themed forum was timely, serving not only as a gathering for wisdom collision but also as a platform for empowering industry upgrades. He earnestly hoped that the attending experts would speak freely and offer suggestions for industrial development; meanwhile, he encouraged entrepreneurs to take the first batch of high-quality product enterprises as examples, focus on innovation and core technology R&D, and jointly push the Guzhen decorative lighting industry to a broader stage.

Liu Shengping, Resident Vice Chairman of the China Association of Lighting Industry (CALI), pointed out in his address that the industry as a whole is under pressure in 2025. Therefore, how to break the deadlock of involution and drive innovation for renewal is an urgent topic to discuss and resolve, which is precisely the core intention behind this exchange meeting. Facing downward pressure, enterprises must actively respond to the new challenges brought by the rapid iteration of consumer demand, strengthen confidence, take independent innovation as the core focus, proactively resist involution, continuously increase R&D investment, promote continuous optimization of industrial structure, and accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading. He emphasized that the deployment of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the policy orientation of the National Two Sessions have brought new opportunities such as strengthening the domestic market and accelerating technological innovation. Intelligence, greenization, healthiness, high-end development, and digitalization have become the core directions of the industry. He hopes that this meeting will gather wisdom to help enterprises seize opportunities amidst changes.

At the beginning of the conference, the organizers officially released the "List of High-Quality Products in the First Batch of Lighting and Decorative Lighting Industry in Guzhen Town", aiming to set quality benchmarks and guide the industry towards quality improvement and upgrading.

During the keynote speech session, several authoritative industry experts shared cutting-edge insights and significant achievements.

In his report titled "Discussion on Development Opportunities of the Lighting Industry under New Trends", Deng Maolin, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Association of Lighting Industry (CALI), systematically reviewed the current status and future path of the industry. He pointed out that the export value of the lighting industry in 2025 was US$49.9 billion, with nearly 3,640 enterprises above designated size, showing overall resilience but facing growth pressure, and currently in a critical period of structural adjustment. Facing internal and external challenges and the policy opportunities of the "14th Five-Year Plan", he proposed that enterprises should focus on nine major directions: the national "Two New" policies, urban renewal, rural road construction, innovative business models, intelligent, healthy and green technologies, emerging niche markets, the basic disk of municipal projects, optimization of overseas market layout, and light health. He emphasized that the industry must create differentiated advantages through technological improvement and ecological optimization, and strengthen supply chain collaboration, ultimately achieving the leap from a "major lighting manufacturing country" to a "strong lighting technology country".

Liu Tian, Deputy Director of the Luminaire Room at the Quality, Measurement and Supervision Testing Institute of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, presented the "Consumer Guide to Electrical Safety in Home Lighting". Based on extensive laboratory test data, he pointed out that electrical fires account for more than 30% of household fire causes, with luminaire overheating, short circuits, equipment aging, and low-priced products passing off inferior goods as superior being the main triggers for safety accidents. At the same time, low-priced luminaires also pose problems affecting visual health, such as blue light hazard and flicker. He interpreted the scope and key points of the mandatory CCC certification for luminaires, and explained in detail practical techniques for consumers to avoid "invisible killers" and scientifically select safe and reliable home lighting products, such as checking the CCC mandatory product certification mark, certificate number (which can be verified on the official website of the National Certification and Accreditation Administration), energy efficiency label, and identifying luminaire housing materials (such as flame retardant performance).

Li Jianfeng, an expert and senior inspector from the Smart Home Appliances Department of the Guangzhou Branch of the China Quality Certification Center (CQC), systematically interpreted the mandatory certification scope and unit division rules for lighting products in his presentation "Brief Introduction to CCC Certification Scope and Consistency Control for Lighting Electrical Products." He provided professional compliance guidance for enterprises to standardize production and ensure product quality. He emphasized key points in production consistency control, including that product markings, manual content, internal structures, and key components (such as power supplies, lamp control devices, insulating materials, etc.) must strictly align with the type test reports and certification certificates. Li Jianfeng pointed out that consistency control is the lifeline for ensuring certified products continuously meet safety requirements. Any changes involving safety performance by enterprises must be declared to and approved by the certification body; the violation of having "one set for the certificate and another for production" is strictly prohibited.

Lin Yu, Minister of the Standards and Industry Development Department at HiSilicon, detailed in his speech "Connectivity + AI Empowering the Intelligent Transformation of Lighting Systems" how HiSilicon builds a smart lighting foundation through the synergy of three ecosystems: "OpenHarmony + NearLink + edge-side AI". He emphasized that NearLink technology comprehensively surpasses traditional wireless technologies in transmission rate, latency, number of connections, and coverage range, bringing an ultimate experience of "short-distance performance, long-distance coverage" to scenarios such as whole-home intelligence and smart offices.

Meanwhile, Deng Jinlong, CEO of Shenzhen Wencang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., further shared the OpenHarmony NearLink smart lighting and smart office solution jointly launched by HiSilicon and Wencang Intelligent. This solution enables precise control of luminaires and intelligent scenario linkage, with the comprehensive energy saving rate of the smart lighting system exceeding 80%. It has been successfully applied in multiple scenarios, including the Artificial Intelligence College building of universities. In addition, he introduced a smart desk lamp solution integrating functions such as healthy eye protection and AI interaction, providing a technical path for the scenario-based upgrade of smart lighting.

Zhao Shiling from Zhongke Rare Earth (Changchun) Co., Ltd. shared "Light and Health — Rare Earth Photobiological Axis Suppression Technology," based on ten years of systematic research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This technology uses special rare earth luminescent materials to prepare a specific spectrum (B/M spectrum) that can effectively inhibit excessive axial growth of the eye. She detailed the long-term research process using macaques as experimental models, published in the international authoritative journal "Zoological Research," which clearly confirmed that low color temperature (3000K) artificial lighting can significantly slow down the axial development of the eyes in adolescent macaques. This technology has been transformed into new eye-protection luminaires, and application studies have been carried out in multiple schools. Preliminary data shows that it can effectively reduce the myopia growth rate among students, providing an innovative light intervention solution with evidence-based medical proof for myopia prevention and control in adolescents.

As a core direction of consumption upgrade, healthy lighting is showing a deepening trend from concept to quantifiable and verifiable practices. Cheng Yu, Secretary-General of the Global Light for Asia Alliance (GLGA) and a senior lighting expert, proposed in his speech "Acceptable Healthy Lighting" that the core of healthy lighting is to focus on the interactive relationship of "people - light - space - time - behavior," rather than single product parameters. He proposed achieving "measurable, verifiable, repeatable" delivery by constructing a three-layer model of visual integrity, melanopsin / circadian rhythm support, and emotional and experiential consistency. He stated that the GLGA is working with international organizations such as IES and CIE to promote the formation of industry consensus on healthy lighting, transforming healthy lighting from a "concept" into contractual and auditable deliverables, and promoting the healthy and orderly development of the industry.

Finally, Hong Bing, Deputy Director of the Talent Training Working Committee of the China Association of Lighting Industry (CALI), stated in his closing summary that this exchange conference, themed "Breaking Through · Towards Innovation," closely addressed the industry's pain points and trends. It gathered wisdom and strength from all parties, delivering a "feast of knowledge" and providing important references for lighting companies to break through development bottlenecks and grasp the direction of innovation.

He stated that, standing at the new starting point of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the lighting industry is ushering in new development opportunities. Taking this exchange conference as an opportunity, he hoped that all parties in the industry would build consensus and work together to break the deadlock of involution through independent innovation, promote industrial transformation through technological upgrades, meet consumer demand with high-quality products, and jointly draw a new blueprint for the innovative development of China's lighting industry and its move towards the global high-end market.