Here’s a polished English translation of the Chinese title: **”Connecting the World, Powering a New Era of Energy Storage — CIBF2026 Concludes Successfully, Charting a New Vision for the Global Battery Industry”**

TIANJINJune 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — From May 13 to 15, the 18th China International Battery Fair (CIBF2026) concluded successfully at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. As the premier global battery industry event in the opening year of China’s “15th Five-Year Plan,” this year’s fair, themed “Connecting the World, Empowering Green, Driving the Future,” featured a total exhibition area exceeding 280,000 square meters, spanning 14 themed professional halls. It brought together nearly 3,200 leading enterprises from the global industrial chain, attracting over 400,000 visits over the three-day period, once again setting a new historical scale record for global battery exhibitions.

I. Global Influence Reaches New Heights

Mainstream media widely believe that CIBF has evolved from a “Chinese battery industry exhibition” into “China’s home ground for the global battery industry.” Xinhua News Agency reported that the fair featured a dedicated international hall, attracting business participants from over 100 countries and regions, effectively promoting international industrial collaboration and technical exchange. Multiple media outlets praised this year’s fair with phrases like “Global battery industry looks to China, China’s battery industry looks to CIBF” — by building an efficient exchange platform and consolidating industry innovation consensus, it has propelled China’s battery industry development to a new stage. With headlines such as “Connecting the World to Paint a New Energy Blueprint for the ’15th Five-Year Plan,'” media focused on the fair’s strategic significance as a vital bridge linking the global energy industry.

Wang Zeshen, Secretary-General of the China Industrial Association of Power Sources, proposed three suggestions at the opening ceremony to guide industry development: take innovation as the “guiding star,” shifting the industry from “price wars” to “value wars”; take green development as the “passport,” proactively aligning with international standards and rules; take collaboration as the “ecosystem,” fostering a new pattern of symbiosis and shared prosperity across the entire industrial chain. Meanwhile, Huatai Securities released a research report after exchanges at the fair, suggesting strong positive demand trends across the lithium battery industrial chain and favoring the industrial progression of sodium batteries and solid-state batteries from 1 to N. This report was cited and referenced by multiple financial media outlets, with its timeliness fully covering the exhibition period.

II. Full Spectrum of Multi-Track Technology Routes Unveiled

This year’s fair presented a comprehensive panorama of innovative breakthroughs across the battery industry. In the solid-state battery field, visitors could get up close with cutting-edge advances such as electrolyte breakthroughs and dry electrode equipment innovations. In the sodium battery field, the latest achievements in large-scale application were fully displayed. In the lithium battery field, innovations in core materials like high-nickel ternary and silicon-based anodes were comprehensively presented, clearly demonstrating the parallel development trend of multiple technology routes.

A major highlight of the fair was leading enterprises competing to showcase “hardcore” products. CATL unveiled its Kirin condensed matter battery and sodium new battery, with its globally largest-ever sodium-ion battery energy storage supply order signed with Hyperstrong receiving concentrated display and widespread attention at the fair, being listed by multiple media outlets as an industry milestone. BYD focused on showcasing its second-generation blade battery and flash charging technology, which successfully overcame two major industry challenges — “slow charging” and “difficult low-temperature charging” — and was prominently publicly demonstrated at the fair. At the industrial chain level, Semcorp launched three new products targeting the high-end赛道, while its concurrently created “Disruptive Technology Experience Zone” became the focal point of audience attention, showcasing the industry’s cutting-edge innovative achievements.

III. Energy Storage Surges, Overseas Expansion Accelerates

For the first time, the popularity of energy storage batteries surpassed that of power batteries, becoming the absolute center of attention. Relevant data shows that in May, the total production schedule of China’s lithium battery market hit a new monthly high, with the proportion of energy storage cell production significantly increasing, becoming the core driver of overall production growth, highlighting the strong development momentum of the energy storage sector.

Regarding overseas expansion, the specially designated Hall 12 International Hall gathered mainstream overseas grid operators, integrators, and energy developers, providing an efficient overseas docking platform for Chinese battery enterprises, helping Chinese companies achieve a leapfrog development from “product export” to “technology standard export.” Xinhua Huaye News Network reported that multiple major collaborations were intensively finalized during the fair. Notably, BYD Energy Storage signed a strategic cooperation with Norway’s Corvus Energy AS to jointly promote the large-scale implementation of high-rate lithium iron phosphate marine battery systems, injecting new momentum into the overseas expansion of Chinese battery technology.

IV. Major Collaborations Intensively Finalized

Fruitful business matching results became a significant highlight of this year’s fair. On the very first day, Chutian New Energy successively signed intensive cooperation agreements with five industry benchmark enterprises, with cumulative orders reaching 50 GWh, achieving full coverage across residential energy storage and large-scale storage applications. Shandong Huate Magnet also signed strategic cooperation agreements with three new energy battery enterprises, deepening industrial chain synergy. Additionally, various exhibitors reached multiple types of cooperation with overseas customers, including battery supply, technology R&D, and capacity co-building, resulting in highly fruitful cross-border bilateral collaborations.

V. Trend Outlook: Five Consensuses Anchor the Industry’s Future

Combining the intensive signals released by the fair and major industry consensuses, CIBF2026 clearly outlined five core future trends for the global battery industry: Technology routes are becoming increasingly diverse, with next-generation technologies like solid-state batteries and sodium-ion batteries accelerating industrialization; downstream application scenarios are exploding across the board, with emerging tracks such as the low-altitude economy and embodied intelligent robots becoming new market drivers; the competitive focus is shifting from scale expansion to full lifecycle economics and global compliance systems; the overseas expansion model is upgrading from simple product export to the export of integrated solutions encompassing technology, standards, and production capacity; and collaborative innovation across the entire industrial chain has become an industry consensus, building a new pattern of symbiosis and shared prosperity.

CIBF2026 was not only an unprecedented industry gathering but also a strategic “thought summit” concerning the future direction of the battery industry. The signals released by the fair are clear and definite: technological iteration and scenario deepening have become the only path for industry breakthroughs. China’s battery industry is deeply integrating into the global new energy industrial chain with a more diverse, open, and innovative posture.

Although the fair has concluded, industry innovation never stops. The entire industry will take this fair as a new starting point, persistently tackling core technologies, strengthening international exchange and cooperation, and contributing greater strength to the global energy transition and the achievement of the “dual carbon” goals. We look forward to gathering again in Shenzhen in 2027 to jointly explore a green, zero-carbon new future!