On March 16, the 2026 Dongguan Hardware Machinery Mold Industry “Guangdong Trade Nationwide” production and sales matching event, sponsored by the Dongguan Hardware Machinery Mold Industry Association and jointly guided by the Dongguan Municipal Commerce Bureau, Dongguan City Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and the Chang’an Town People’s Government, came to a successful conclusion at the Chang’an Lotus Villa Hotel.
This event is a landmark industrial activity for Dongguan to deeply implement the strategy of “Guangzhou Goods Traveling Worldwide” and promote the implementation of “Dongguan High-Quality Products Traveling Nationwide”.
More than 350 upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry, national purchasers and technical experts gathered in Chang’an, a famous town for mechanical hardware and molds in China, through policy presentations, technical exchanges, accurate matching of supply and demand, and online simultaneous live broadcasts.
, a total of 68 preliminary cooperation intentions have been reached, with the total amount of intended cooperation exceeding 32 million yuan. It has built an efficient bridge for Dongguan’s 100-billion-level mold industry cluster to connect with the national market, and also demonstrated the strong driving force of Dongguan’s hardware machinery mold industry to upgrade to high-end, intelligent, and branded.
Three-party linkage between the Political and Enterprise Consultative Conference, policy dividends go directly to enterprises
As the first national docking event for the Dongguan mold industry in the first year of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, this event has received the full support of all parties in the Political and Enterprise Consultative Conference, and the “Guangzhou Goods Travel World” series of supporting policies accurately reached participating enterprises at the event site.
Relevant personnel from the Dongguan Municipal Commerce Bureau revealed that during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, Dongguan has introduced special policies for industrial expansion for five consecutive years, and has supported enterprises to participate in 126 professional exhibitions nationwide, with a total exhibition area of 500,000 square meters, and municipal supporting funds of 1.
300 million yuan, and strived for provincial support of more than 24 million yuan, benefiting more than 11,000 companies; at the same time, 3 Dongguan high-quality product exhibition and sales centers were deployed in key domestic cities, with more than 270 companies settled in, and the relevant market development experience was promoted in a special issue of the Provincial Department of Commerce.
This year, the Municipal Commerce Bureau has promoted the “Guangdong Trade Nationwide” work and has jointly launched the “Dongguan Premium Products National Tour” series of activities with the Dongguan Council for the Promotion of International Trade. It plans to organize 100 “Dongguan Premium Products National Tour” activities, including organizing companies to participate in more than 30 well-known exhibitions, holding 15 new product launches and 5 production and sales docking activities.
The Dongguan City Council for the Promotion of International Trade stated that the trade promotion system will give full play to the advantages of the global economic and trade network to provide full-chain services for mold companies in the fields of exhibition resource docking, intellectual property protection, and cross-border market development. At the same time, it will deepen the collaborative linkage with commercial departments, industry associations, and towns and streets, build a multi-dimensional domestic market expansion system, and jointly polish the “Dongguan Mold” regional public brand, making “Guanghuoxingtianxia” the core starting point for Dongguan’s mold industry to go nationwide and spread out globally.
As the venue for this event, Chang’an Town introduced that the output value of the town’s hardware mold industry will reach 51.93 billion yuan in 2025, a year-on-year increase of more than 9%, and a complete industrial ecology of “manufacturing + professional market + brand exhibition” has been formed.
It is hoped that this “Guangdong Trade Nationwide” event will be used as an opportunity to continue to provide optimal development support for enterprises and help the mold industry to take advantage of the “Guangdong Goods Travel World” east wind to climb to the high end of the value chain.
The Dongguan Hardware Machinery Mold Industry Association stated that since its establishment 23 years ago, the association has always focused on serving enterprises, holding more than 20 supply and demand docking and technical exchange activities every year, and building a “green channel” for government-enterprise communication.
In the future, the association will continue to use the “Guangdong Trade Nationwide” series of activities as a carrier to build more professional docking platforms, promote collaborative innovation upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, guide enterprises to accelerate their intelligent transformation, and inject the hard-core power of the mold industry into “Guangdong Goods Traveling World” and “Dongguan Premium Products Nationwide”.
Technology sharing directly hits the pain points, and the supply and demand docking is fruitful
In view of the core pain points such as intelligent upgrade and market expansion that are generally concerned by enterprises, this event has set up five major theme sharing sessions, inviting industry leaders and technical experts to bring cutting-edge practical experience.
Relevant personnel of Xiangxin Technology dismantled the implementation path of intelligent production line upgrades and clarified the direction of cooperation for upstream suppliers; relevant personnel of Yutong Optics shared the research and development innovation results of precision optical molds and released annual procurement requirements; relevant personnel of Guangzhou-Shenzhen Industrial Service Center released a centralized procurement list of nearly 100 million yuan on site, covering high-end
Core categories such as end-end molds and CNC equipment; grassroots overseas personnel explained in detail the practical methods for B2B companies to expand the Southeast Asian market with actual cases; Huawei Cloud Dongguan regional personnel demonstrated the application value of AI technology in production scheduling, intelligent quality inspection and other scenarios, providing a practical reference solution for the intelligent transformation of enterprises.
In order to break the time and space limitations of traditional docking activities, this event innovatively adopts a two-line model of “offline precise docking + product display + full online live broadcast” to maximize the coverage of “Guangdong Trade Nationwide”.
The online live broadcast room of the event has attracted more than 10,000 viewers, and the offline one-on-one negotiation area was packed with seats after the opening. The supply and demand parties had in-depth exchanges on precision mold research and development, intelligent equipment procurement, cross-border supply chain cooperation and other fields.
Many local companies have gained a lot from the event. The person in charge of Tengfei Hardware Company said that the site has reached preliminary cooperation intentions with three core buyers from East China; the procurement demand of nearly 100 million yuan released by the Dongguan-Shenzhen Industrial Service Platform received docking applications from more than 58 companies, and 23 Dongguan local companies successfully entered the candidate supplier list.
In the centralized signing session at the end of the event, representatives of 26 companies signed cooperation agreements on-site, covering multiple fields such as smart equipment procurement and joint technology research and development, fully demonstrating the effectiveness of this docking event.
The successful holding of this production and sales docking event is another vivid practice of Dongguan’s implementation of the strategy of “Guangzhou’s goods are sold all over the world” and “Dongguan’s high-quality products are sold nationwide”. It not only opens up a new channel for Dongguan’s hardware machinery mold industry to connect with the national market, but also promotes the industry to use AI technology and precision research and development to achieve a leap in core competitiveness.
In the future, with the support of departments at all levels, Dongguan’s hardware machinery mold industry will continue to take “Guangdong Trade Nationwide” as the starting point, deepen collaborative innovation in the industrial chain, coordinate the use of both domestic and international markets, promote independent brands to go nationwide, and let “Dongguan Mold” become the shining business card of Guangdong Products to expand the national market.
