From 26 to 29 November, the much-anticipated bauma CHINA 2024 came to a successful end at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. This quadrennial event for the construction machinery industry once again proved its outstanding platform status in the Asia-Pacific region with record-breaking exhibition space, number of exhibitors and visitors, and comprehensively demonstrated the latest breakthroughs and innovations in the field of construction machinery.

During the exhibition, bauma CHINA 2024 reached an unprecedented total exhibition area of 330,000 square metres, bringing together 3,542 exhibitors from 32 countries and regions, an increase of 24% compared with the previous edition, with 700 international brands. It attracted 281,488 professional visitors from 188 countries and regions to negotiate and purchase, with overseas visitors accounting for more than 20%, of which Russia, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Brazil and Japan ranked as the top ten countries of origin of overseas visitors.

Many international famous enterprises such as Caterpillar, Wirtgen, Manitou, Manitowoc, etc. competed for the debut, brought a variety of new products and new technologies for the Asia-Pacific and China market debut. bauma CHINA's ever-expanding international ‘circle of friends’ shows that the science and technology innovation of China's construction machinery industry is closely linked with the world, and the development of the world's construction machinery industry is also becoming more and more important. The development of the world's construction machinery industry also needs China's participation and contribution more and more.

Under the background of sustainable development becoming the core issue of this exhibition, ‘new energy’ and ‘digital upgrade’ have become the new engine for upgrading the construction machinery industry. Driven by the goal of ‘double carbon’, China's construction machinery industry is accelerating towards a new stage of high-end, intelligent and green development, ushering in unprecedented development opportunities.

On the exhibition site, many exhibitors displayed the world's leading construction machinery products, such as the world's largest tonnage of rotary drilling rigs, electric drive horizontal directional drilling rigs, as well as the world's first mining hybrid excavator, hydrogen pump trucks and so on. New energy equipment new products came out repeatedly, and the exhibits were upgraded from a single electric product to a full series of full life cycle solutions, showing the industry's booming development in the field of new energy.

In addition, this year's exhibition also set up a special ‘new energy technology’ display theme, attracting the participation of battery and supporting enterprises such as Ningde Times and Fudi Battery, promoting cross-border cooperation between new energy enterprises and construction machinery manufacturers, and injecting new vitality into the green and high-quality development of construction machinery. Jiang Yuwei, Director of Heavy Truck and Construction Machinery Solutions of Ningde Times New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. said that the scale of this year's bauma CHINA exhibition was grand, and they approached a large number of overseas visitors, and the customers held a positive attitude towards the electrification and green transformation of construction machinery.

At the same time, a number of thematic forums were held during the exhibition, with in-depth discussions on cutting-edge hot topics such as new energy storage, international market competition and machinery standardisation. Industry experts and scholars, benchmark enterprises and users jointly analysed the shortcomings of development, and looked forward to the future direction, which provided a more insightful new perspective for the industry's diversified changes.

To sum up, bauma CHINA 2024 is not only an event for the construction machinery industry, but also a concentrated display of the industry's innovative power. It has witnessed the vigorous development of China's construction machinery industry, and also pointed out the direction for the future development of the global construction machinery industry.