Light Deeply Integrated into Architecture, Embarking on a New Journey | 2027 Shanghai International Architecture & Engineering Lighting Exhibition
Since 2025, the state has vigorously promoted urban renewal, and the concept of building "good houses" has continued to deepen, providing new opportunities to release domestic lighting market capacity through building renewal projects. At the same time, multiple government departments actively advocate for the transformation of manufacturing towards service-oriented manufacturing. Market demand for lighting companies has upgraded from "providing products" to "delivering healthy and comfortable light environments." China's lighting industry is accelerating its leap from "production and sales" to "light environment services," with intelligence, health, green development, and cultural-tourism integration becoming core trends for the lighting industry to release new value.
To seize new development opportunities and promote deeper integration of the lighting industry in the architectural field, China Association of Lighting Industry (CALI), relying on its solid cooperation with Shanghai BoHua International Exhibition Co., Ltd. over many years, will upgrade the long-established "Shanghai International Commercial & Engineering Lighting Exhibition" to the "Shanghai International Architecture & Engineering Lighting Exhibition" in 2027. The exhibition will be held from March 30 to April 2, 2027, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. With light as the medium and architecture as the body, the exhibition deeply integrates three major sectors: indoor and outdoor architecture, cultural tourism landscape construction, and building intelligence, comprehensively constructing a new ecosystem chain of "Architecture + Lighting + Design." Concurrently, it will jointly organize events such as the "2027 Shanghai International Hotel & Commercial Space, Office & Public Space Expo" and the "Shanghai Architecture Festival" with multiple units, creating diverse linkages to continuously empower the lighting industry.
Panoramic Presentation of the New Ecosystem, Precisely Anchoring Frontier Trends
The 2027 Shanghai International Architecture and Engineering Lighting Exhibition will keep pace with the times, precisely anchor cutting-edge industry trends, and centrally present innovative products and system [[16. 产业与经济常用词]] solutions applied in diverse scenarios. The exhibit scope will comprehensively cover:
Architecture and Commercial Space Lighting: Hotel and commercial lighting, architectural engineering lighting, public space lighting, etc.
Smart Lighting: Smart buildings, intelligent lighting control systems, digital technology lighting installations, interactive experience lighting.
Cultural Tourism and Landscape Lighting: Garden lighting, signage and guidance lighting, art installations, night tour light shows and stage performance lighting.
[[9. 照明方式与应用]]: Lighting engineering design and light environment planning.
The "Shanghai International Architecture Festival", held concurrently, will focus on three core sectors: architecture, interiors, and lighting. Through exhibitions of architectural design works and interactive displays of interior spaces and light environments, it will vividly present the infinite possibilities of collaborative innovation between light and architecture.
Global buyers gather, with professional audiences forming the core attraction for exhibition and trade
The exhibition is not only a showcase for products and technologies, but also a high-ground for business matching with a vast number of professional audiences. The 2026 exhibition attracted over 100,000 professional visitors from more than 100 countries and regions worldwide, with overseas professional buyers exceeding tens of thousands, fully demonstrating the platform's international influence and commercial value.
The audience composition is highly diverse and precise, covering the complete industry chain including hotel management groups, commercial real estate developers, construction engineering companies, design firms, municipal planning units, and end owners. From lighting engineers pursuing cutting-edge technology to architects and interior designers controlling project decisions; from owners seeking commercial space upgrade solutions to operators laying out cultural tourism and night tour projects—various core buyers gather here with real procurement needs and project plans, engaging in efficient matchmaking with exhibiting companies. This cross-sector, high-net-worth professional audience structure not only facilitates massive business cooperation but also ensures that every dialogue directly addresses engineering implementation and industry frontiers, opening the door to global markets for lighting enterprises.
Led by the "Urban Renewal" themed activity, Exploring New Blue Oceans in the Era of Stock Assets
High-quality urban development has entered a new stage, with "urban renewal" becoming the core engine for stimulating urban vitality and enhancing spatial quality. To actively respond to national strategies and fully leverage the association's core role in leading industry innovation and development, China Association of Lighting Industry（中国照明电器协会） will join hands with its branches, including the Urban Renewal Special Committee and the Nightscape / Landscape lighting Special Committee, to launch a series of industry exchange activities themed around "Urban Renewal" during the 2027 Exhibition!As one of the core highlights of the exhibition, this thematic event will deeply focus on key areas such as urban renewal, architectural floodlighting, cultural tourism night economy, and outdoor public space creation. It will gather industry leaders, top scholars, senior lighting and landscape designers, and representatives of outstanding engineering enterprises. Through keynote speeches, roundtable dialogues, and in-depth analysis of project cases, we will jointly explore. China Association of Lighting Industry（中国照明电器协会） and its branches will fully leverage their resource integration advantages, connect upstream and downstream forces of the Industry / Supply chain, and build a high-specification, deep-level, and precise platform for business matchmaking and ideological collision for member units, special committee members, and industry colleagues, effectively helping lighting companies seize opportunities and innovate in the tide of urban renewal.
In addition, the exhibition will jointly present the "Rhyme of Light · Heart of Craftsmanship" series Forum / Conference / Exhibition and other activities, inviting top global architects, lighting designers, and technical experts to engage in forward-looking in-depth dialogues on hot topics such as the integration of AI and lighting, smart city lighting, and the cultural tourism night tour economy.
Meet in 2027, Building the Future in the Name of Light
The 2027 Shanghai International Architecture and Engineering Lighting Exhibition is not only a grand showcase of products and technologies, but also an important milestone for China Association of Lighting Industry（中国照明电器协会） in leading cross-industry integration and exploring new boundaries of "light environment services". From March 30 to April 2, 2027, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (Pudong), we look forward to gathering with lighting companies, architects, designers, real estate developers, and project owners to witness the infinite possibilities of light and architecture together, and jointly draw a grand blueprint for the high-quality development of China's lighting Industry!
Strong alliance, witnessing industry upgrade Since the 1990s, CALI and Shanghai Bohua have jointly organized professional lighting exhibitions in Shanghai. In 2010, leveraging the rapid development of LED lighting, the exhibition utilized Shanghai Bohua's resource advantages in the hotel sector to enter the hotel and commercial lighting track, promoting the application of LED lighting in hotel engineering channels. In 2017, the exhibition was upgraded again, expanding from the hotel sector to commercial and engineering lighting, fully covering commercial spaces such as hotels, shopping malls, and architectural landscapes, opening up channels for lighting companies to enter the construction engineering market, and becoming an important exhibition and trade cooperation platform for China's lighting industry. Responding to the national "Urban Renewal" strategy and "Dual Carbon" goals, the 2027 exhibition will start from a new point, combining with the "Shanghai International Architecture Festival", and be fully upgraded to the "Shanghai International Architecture and Engineering Lighting Exhibition", deeply integrating three major sectors: indoor and outdoor architecture, cultural tourism landscape construction, and building intelligence and lighting, building a "Architecture + Lighting" full industry chain event, and continuously empowering the lighting industry through professional service platforms.
Source: China Association of Lighting Industry