2026 is a critical period when the global manufacturing landscape is undergoing deep adjustments and China is accelerating the cultivation of new productive forces.
Against this background, the 14th China CNC Machine Tool Exhibition (CCMT2026) opened grandly at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from April 21 to 25.
The total exhibition area of CCMT2026 reached 202,000 square meters, attracting a total of more than 271,000 visitors.
The exhibition brings together more than 2,000 exhibiting companies from 27 countries and regions around the world, with international exhibitors accounting for more than 30%.
As the largest, most professional and influential machine tool industry event in Asia in 2026, the exhibition, with the theme of “Digital·Interconnection·Intelligent Manufacturing”, comprehensively showcases the development results of cutting-edge technologies and high-end equipment in the global industry, builds a bridge for global technical exchanges and industrial cooperation, embodies the characteristics of the machine tool industry’s AI-enabled, digital interconnection, high-precision composite, green and low-carbon intelligent manufacturing era, and meets the needs of high-end manufacturing and emerging industries.
CCMT2026 has received great attention and extensive participation from all walks of life, and on-site transactions are active.
National ministries and commissions, local governments, etc. attach great importance to and support it, and many mainstream media reported on the exhibition.
During the exhibition, a number of high-end equipment purchases, school-enterprise collaborative innovation, and industrial chain strategic cooperation were implemented.
For example, Guilin Hongcheng Precision Machinery and Sichuan Zhenzhong Electromechanical finalized a 28 million yuan purchase contract for CK52 series CNC vertical lathes on site, and the intended contract amount in the General Technology Group exhibition area exceeded 150 million yuan.
CCMT2026 exhibits have distinctive core technical features.
In terms of precision limit and digital intelligence empowerment, it shows the characteristics of equal emphasis on extreme rigidity and high precision, five-axis and hybridization becoming the mainstream trend, comprehensive advancement of intelligence level, continuous improvement of independent controllability of domestic enterprises, green and low-carbon towards system-level intelligent manufacturing, and deep compliance with the application needs of the Chinese market.
International exhibitors are accelerating their localization layout, deeply exploring the Chinese market, and still maintaining monopoly advantages in some subdivided process fields.
European and Japanese machine tools are the leading forces among overseas exhibitors. The exhibits of foreign-funded enterprises have leading advantages in AI intelligent control, digital twins, precision five-axis, composite flexibility, green energy saving, etc., and they still occupy a monopoly in some subdivided processes such as semiconductors and ultra-precision optics.
Domestic machine tools have achieved a comprehensive leap in high precision + intelligence.
There is an explosion of five-axis exhibits, improved accuracy indicators, accelerated upgrades of AI intelligent control, accelerated autonomy of core components, more mature composites and flexibility, green upgrades, deep breakthroughs in subdivisions, and outstanding performance of emerging companies.
The machine tool industry has entered the era of industry ecological integration.
CCMT2026 reflects that China’s machine tool tool market is a global leader in scale, strong domestic demand, and structural upgrades. However, my country’s machine tool industry still faces challenges such as core components being controlled by others and weak basic capabilities.
The global machine tool industry has entered a new stage of “ecology + intelligence”. New Chinese machine tool forces need to break through technology and data barriers, shift from pure equipment sales to full life cycle value services, and actively integrate into the trend of ecological and intelligent transformation in order to achieve breakthroughs.
