On March 26, the opening ceremony of the 18th Suzhou Smart Home Expo with the theme of “AI Empowerment, Smart Life” was held grandly at the Suzhou Yuanhetang Convention and Exhibition Center.
Representatives from furniture, exhibition, e-commerce industry associations and enterprises at all levels across the country gathered in Likou to jointly explore new trends in smart homes and draw a bright blueprint for the future of the industry.
Jiangsu Likou International Furniture City was founded in 1992 and has now become one of the most influential and market-radiating furniture industry centers in the country.
Since the beginning of this year, Xiangcheng High-tech Zone has actively responded to the special action requirements of Suzhou City’s “Three Services” and has deeply implemented the “1368” development strategy of Xiangcheng High-tech Zone around the main line of Xiangcheng District’s “Year of Improving Quality and Efficiency Service”.
Driven by this strategy, traditional industries are radiating new vitality and vitality, vigorously attracting well-known domestic and foreign brands, accelerating the advancement of the smart home industry in the direction of branding, digitalization and clustering, giving “buying furniture to Likou” a new era connotation.
This expo is themed “AI Empowering Intelligent Life”, and the 18,000-square-meter exhibition hall brings together more than a hundred high-quality brands such as Xiaomi and Casarte.
It covers the entire industrial chain of smart life, branded furniture, raw and auxiliary materials, etc., comprehensively presents the latest achievements in the deep integration of cutting-edge technology and home life, and builds an efficient and collaborative business ecosystem.
On the day of the opening ceremony, the number of visitors exceeded 40,000, which shows its popularity.
At the opening ceremony, the Likou Smart Home Business District Renewal Plan was released.
In the future, we will focus on building a smart home OPC community, promote the “homecoming” project of enterprises, cultivate smart home industry clusters, hold special professional exhibitions, create a smart home innovation first economic cluster, and comprehensively promote the energy level of Likou smart home business district.
The smart home OPC community was officially unveiled. As an innovative incubation carrier focusing on the smart home field, the OPC community will focus on attracting high-quality projects such as intelligent system integrators and AI design software, making every effort to accelerate the in-depth integration of “AI + home” and accelerate the formation of a large-scale and collaborative smart home industry cluster.
In addition, at the opening ceremony, Douyin’s series of activities to empower the Likou furniture market were officially launched.
With the help of Douyin’s traffic empowerment and Likou’s industrial advantages, we can promote the integrated development of online and offline industries and brand renewal and upgrade.
At the same time, 12 high-quality companies signed cooperation intentions on site, which not only demonstrated the company’s strong confidence in the potential of the smart home market, but also reflected deep trust in the brand of Jiangsu Likou International Furniture City.
At present, Jiangsu Likou International Furniture City has gathered 41 modern furniture shopping malls, more than 3,000 merchants, and more than 5,000 brands, firmly ranking among the “four major furniture trading capitals in China”, with sales exceeding 13 billion yuan in 2025.
The expo is deeply linked with many surrounding large-scale furniture stores. Through the “exhibition-market integration” model, it stimulates the “exhibition economy” to empower the home furnishing industry with new vitality, strives to create a “never-ending expo”, continues to enhance the ability to expand service consumption, cultivate new consumption, and improve quality product consumption, and inject strong momentum into the Suzhou consumer market.
