Smart Expansion Enabled by AI·Connected World — The 2nd (2026) China Enterprise Global Expansion Summit Successfully Held in Shenzhen
On March 27, 2026, the 2nd (2026) China Enterprise Global Expansion Summit, co-hosted by Bayshine Group and the Belt and Road Environmental Technology Exchange and Transfer Center (Shenzhen), concluded successfully at the Zhonghai Kaili Hotel Shenzhen!
Under the theme "Smart Expansion Enabled by AI · Connected World", the Summit addressed the era-defining mission of high-quality global expansion for Chinese enterprises in the inaugural year of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). It brought together over 1,000 corporate decision-makers, on-the-ground experts from home and abroad, and full-ecosystem global expansion service providers. Through a professional structure of "one main forum + two parallel sub-forums", it created a high-level global exchange event integrating policy interpretation, practical case studies, and resource matching, building a high-specification platform for communication and cooperation to support Chinese enterprises in their globalization strategies.
As global industrial chains undergo profound restructuring and the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China fully launches, Chinese enterprises' high-quality global expansion has entered a new strategic window of opportunity. Simultaneously, they face increasingly complex practical challenges in cross-border compliance, market positioning, resource matching, and green transformation. Rooted in the new development stage, the Summit focused on national strategic guidance and enterprises' practical needs, exploring in depth how enterprises can seize policy dividends, position themselves in emerging markets, strengthen digital and intelligent empowerment, and uphold the compliance baseline. Guests and entrepreneurs from all sectors engaged in in-depth exchanges and intellectual collision on core topics including policy interpretation, cross-border practice, compliance and risk control, green development, and ecosystem collaboration.
The successful convening of the Summit delivered cutting-edge trend insights and actionable practical solutions for enterprises. It further opened up channels connecting policies, resources, services, and markets, effectively promoting collaborative upgrading of the global expansion ecosystem and efficient resource integration. It injected strong momentum into Chinese enterprises' steady globalization and enhancement of core global competitiveness in the inaugural year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, establishing itself as an important supporting platform for driving enterprises toward high-quality global development.
Main Forum: Anchoring New Opportunities in the 15th Five-Year Plan, Co-charting a New Blueprint for Global Expansion
The main forum centered on "New Journey Under the 15th Five-Year Plan · New Opportunities for Global Expansion — Policy Empowerment · Ecosystem Collaboration · Compliance-Driven Growth". Mr. Wang Yan, Chairman of Bayshine Group, Mr. Hao Mingtu, Director of the Belt and Road Environmental Technology Exchange and Transfer Center (Shenzhen), and Ms. He Yitong, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Economic Society, delivered opening remarks in succession. They congratulated the Summit on its opening, shared insights on building the global expansion ecosystem and directions for high-quality development, and set a pragmatic, empowering, and collaborative tone for the event.
In his opening address, Chairman Wang Yan stated that Chinese enterprises' globalization journey has entered a new phase: shifting from passive selection to proactive strategic layout, from single-point trials to systematic planning, and from scale-driven expansion to high-quality expansion. Faced with multiple challenges such as global industrial chain restructuring, heightened compliance requirements, and cross-cultural operations, enterprises urgently need more systematic, collaborative, and professional all-round support. He pointed out that the country's high-level opening-up, the deployment of the 15th Five-Year Plan, policy guidance from the 2026 National Two Sessions, and the continuous release of dividends from RCEP and the Belt and Road Initiative provide solid guarantees and strategic opportunities for enterprises' high-quality global expansion.
Chairman Wang emphasized that this Summit, themed "Smart Expansion Enabled by AI · Connected World", aims to help enterprises make rational strategic decisions and pursue high-quality global development with forward-looking insights and professional systems. It also seeks to break down barriers across the entire value chain, guiding enterprises from scattered expansion to collective development and from single-point efforts to full-chain empowerment. As a company with 14 years of deep experience in global expansion services, Bayshine Group will continue to strengthen its policy research capabilities, improve its full-chain service ecosystem, and enhance its collaborative platform. It is committed to building China's most influential, professional, and credible comprehensive service platform for global expansion, accompanying more Chinese enterprises to go global, integrate locally, operate steadily, and develop sustainably.
In his opening remarks, Director Hao Mingtu pointed out that 2026 marks the inaugural year of the 15th Five-Year Plan and a critical year for Chinese enterprises to advance high-quality global expansion. Amid profound adjustments in the global economic landscape, expanding into overseas markets has become an inevitable choice for enterprises. He stressed that the 15th Five-Year Plan clearly identifies green development and digitalization as core tracks for enterprises to participate in international competition. The country vigorously promotes high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative, deepens cooperation in green infrastructure, green energy, and green transportation, fosters new forms and models of digital trade, supports qualified enterprises to accelerate their global layout, and enhances the resilience and security of industrial and supply chains. Director Hao noted that enterprise global expansion is not only economic cooperation but also concept communication. He expressed hope that more enterprises will practice green standards, tell compelling stories of Chinese global expansion, and ride the waves of a new round of globalization to achieve steady and long-term development.
Ms. He Yitong, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the Shenzhen Economic Society, stated in her address that amid the accelerating evolution of the global economic and trade landscape, enterprises' global layout has shifted from an "option" to a "must". High-quality expansion, compliant operations, and ecosystem-based collaboration have become core competencies for enterprises to participate in global competition in the new era. She emphasized that Shenzhen, as a frontier of reform and opening-up and a hub for cross-border industry clusters, boasts unique advantages in industrial chains, innovation, and openness. It is becoming an important source and support point for Chinese enterprises to enter the world stage.
This Summit, themed "Smart Expansion Enabled by AI · Connected World", precisely aligns with national strategic guidance and enterprise development needs, providing an important vehicle for cross-border cooperation, industrial collaboration, and ecosystem co-construction. She stated that the Society will continue to play its role as a think tank and bridge, working with Bayshine Group, the Belt and Road Environmental Technology Exchange and Transfer Center (Shenzhen), and partners from all sectors to jointly improve the enterprise global expansion service system. It will help enterprises grasp trends, seize opportunities, and prevent risks, driving more outstanding enterprises to steadily enter global markets and contributing greater strength to Shenzhen's construction of a world-leading cross-border trade ecosystem and the country's high-level opening-up.
Keynote Speech 1: Professor Yuan Yiming, Shenzhen University China Special Economic Zone Research Center
Professor Yuan Yiming delivered a keynote speech titled "Your 15th Five-Year Plan: Riding the Wind and Waves to Become Local Market Makers". Drawing on years of overseas research and industrial observation, he pointed out that Chinese enterprises' global expansion has undergone over 40 years of development, evolving from early product exports and cost-driven strategies to a new development stage. As China has become the world's largest manufacturing nation, enterprise global expansion must complete a strategic elevation from "being able to go out" to "winning the future", and from being "global expanders" to "local market makers".
Professor Yuan proposed that Chinese enterprises' global expansion is achieving a critical transformation from cost management to rule management. In the past, enterprises relied on labor and manufacturing cost advantages to explore overseas markets. However, current global competition has entered a new stage of rule-based competition, standard competition, and trust competition. Enterprises must shift from earning "cost differentials" to earning "rule differentials" and "trust differentials", building long-term operational systems that comply with local policies, cultures, and market requirements to achieve sustainable and steady development.
Centering on the core strategy of "local market making", Professor Yuan proposed three pillar capabilities: First, building resilient industrial networks, leveraging China's supply chain foundations to create a "root-trunk-leaf" global layout and achieve China-foreign team collaboration. Second, establishing technology-inclusive open architectures, insisting on the balance between core technology protection and open cooperation, and achieving symbiotic development through altruistic concepts. Third, constructing credible brand foundations, building brand moats through ESG, community contribution, and localized value creation, making trust the most solid barrier.
Finally, Professor Yuan offered five practical recommendations to global expansion entrepreneurs: enhance local adaptation capabilities, prioritize validating localized business models, seek opportunities in differences and gaps, distinguish between risks and uncertainties and respond precisely, and build hybrid ecosystems with China-foreign collaboration. He emphasized that Chinese enterprises' global expansion must respect differences, cultivate local markets deeply, embrace long-termism, and truly achieve "new resources going out, local market making toward the future".
Keynote Speech 2: Professor Geng Jian, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University "Belt and Road" Business Division
Professor Geng Jian, Industrial Dean of the "Belt and Road" Business Division at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, delivered a keynote speech titled "Strategic Choices for Chinese Enterprises' Global Expansion in the New Navigation Era", systematically analyzing the core logic and compliance pathways for globalization strategies. He pointed out that global expansion has become an inevitable choice for Chinese enterprises to break through involution and lay out future development. The long-term involution caused by domestic market oversupply precisely proves that Chinese enterprises' capabilities are ready to redistribute value in the global landscape—global expansion is not a choice, but an era trend.
Dean Geng emphasized that China's Belt and Road Initiative adheres to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and win-win cooperation, fundamentally different from Western models of hegemony priority and unilateral protection. Only by enabling partners to benefit together can long-term and stable development be achieved. Currently, China's hardcore industries such as new energy, ultra-high voltage, AI computing power, power batteries, and high-speed rail have successfully gone global and formed global competitiveness. However, soft power, management culture, and localized operations still have room for improvement. This round of global expansion represents a historic opportunity for private enterprises and young entrepreneurs, with Shenzhen, as an innovation highland, becoming the best soil for enterprise globalization incubation.
Addressing enterprise global expansion pain points, Dean Geng identified two core challenges: First, insufficient cross-cultural cognition, lacking deep understanding of overseas rules, customs, and markets. Second, cognitive misconceptions, equating global expansion simply with product output while neglecting its essence as "second entrepreneurship".
To address these, he offered practical recommendations: enterprises should elevate cognitive dimensions and build global perspectives through systematic learning; adopt investment banking thinking to integrate global resources based on their own value, achieving unity of knowledge and action with pragmatic innovation; fully utilize public resources such as overseas warehouses and local operation centers to reduce trial-and-error costs; follow leading enterprises in collaborative global expansion, relying on local partners to rapidly integrate into markets.
Finally, Dean Geng concluded: "Cognitive direction determines pathways, and ecosystem platforms determine success or failure." If enterprises lack the capability to independently build ecosystems, they should prioritize relying on mature global expansion platforms to advance steadily, achieving long-term and sustainable development in the new navigation era.
Keynote Speech 3: Chairwoman Wang Xin, Global Cross-border E-commerce Association & Shenzhen Cross-border E-commerce Association
Chairwoman Wang Xin, Executive Chairman of the Global Cross-border E-commerce Association and President of the Shenzhen Cross-border E-commerce Association, delivered a keynote speech titled "Insights 2026: New Trends in Cross-border E-commerce Under AI Intelligence Reconstruction", providing forward-looking perspectives on AI technology applications in product selection, certification, and intellectual property protection, offering practical directions for e-commerce enterprises' digital transformation.
She pointed out that over the past decade-plus, cross-border e-commerce practitioners mostly operated in a "naked" state lacking compliance system support. The industry's development focus has shifted from extensive global expansion to compliance-oriented, systematic, and ecosystem-based construction. Currently, AI technology is comprehensively reconstructing the underlying logic of cross-border e-commerce, and the industry is entering a historic window of transformation. The effective window for enterprises to sprint for positioning and build core barriers is approximately three years—global expansion has become a mandatory question that all cross-border enterprises must face.
Chairwoman Wang emphasized that China's total foreign trade volume reached 45.57 trillion yuan in 2025, with exports exceeding imports, making it the world's largest goods exporter. Cross-border e-commerce has completed deep layout in 245 countries and cities globally. However, enterprises still face challenges in legal systems, value systems, rule system differences, and policy uncertainties, particularly needing to address intellectual property risks. China's manufacturing industry currently only completes 20% of production links in the global full ecological chain, with 80% room for improvement from design and production to full-process trade.
Regarding AI empowerment value, she stated that AI's predictive analysis capabilities and tool-based support can improve cross-border e-commerce operational efficiency by over 50%, reduce costs in certain links by over 40%, and significantly enhance enterprises' destocking capabilities and global layout efficiency. AI is becoming a new shopping entrance, automatically completing verification, deduplication, and compliance checks that previously relied on large amounts of manual repetitive work, comprehensively reconstructing industry efficiency systems.
Keynote Speech 4: Chief Engineer Cao Huiyi, Belt and Road Environmental Technology Exchange and Transfer Center (Shenzhen)
Chief Engineer Cao Huiyi delivered a keynote speech titled "Green Belt and Road: Opportunities and Challenges", emphasizing that green compliance and standard mutual recognition are core competencies for enterprise global expansion. He introduced that the Center is a public institution jointly established by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Shenzhen Municipal Government, providing professional support for enterprises' green global expansion across four dimensions: concept dissemination, rule formulation, industrial matching, and product promotion. He explained that the Belt and Road Initiative now covers 156 partner countries, with the Green Belt and Road taking the "Two Mountains Theory" (lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets) as its core, highly aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, covering green energy, manufacturing, transportation, finance, and other full industrial sectors.
He stated that Chinese enterprises' green global expansion faces four major opportunities: green environmental protection has become global consensus, China is gradually moving toward rule leadership in the green field, green technologies have undergone diverse environmental verification with outstanding cost-performance, and emerging market space is vast. Simultaneously, they face challenges such as international situation fluctuations, insufficient green compliance capabilities in some enterprises, and opaque policies in host countries. He noted that international energy turbulence has conversely generated overseas demand for green products such as energy storage, new energy vehicles, and photovoltaic components—opportunity exists within crisis.
Cao Huiyi recommended that enterprises should develop adapted products based on localized needs, emphasize local resource integration, and rely on national overseas interest protection networks for steady layout. In the future, the Center will continue to play its platform role, helping enterprises achieve high-quality global expansion through green, compliant, and sustainable pathways.
Keynote Speech 5: General Manager Xue Saixia, Bayshine Group
General Manager Xue Saixia delivered a keynote speech titled "Smart Expansion Enabled by AI · Connected World — Win-Win Global Expansion Ecosystem", proposing an ecosystem concept evolving from single-point services to full-chain empowerment. She pointed out that the current period represents a golden window for enterprise global expansion. With national policy support, international trade must follow the path of trade-investment integration, and cross-border e-commerce must follow the overseas warehouse + compliance integration path. Enterprises should proactively layout and seize opportunities.
She systematically analyzed opportunities in key global markets: ASEAN has mature manufacturing, new energy, and semiconductor tracks; the Middle East represents a golden window in the next 3–5 years, focusing on engineering, building materials, and consumer goods, emphasizing compliance and localized operations; European and American markets have high barriers and high returns, requiring strengthened product certification; Africa is at a critical first-mover advantage period; Oceania is suitable for steady layout.
She mentioned five major global expansion cooperation projects of Bayshine Group on-site: Africa e-commerce trade and industrial park matching, global 3 trillion USD Muslim market halal certification, Hong Kong intelligent secretary and global compliance financial services, Ghana-China Chamber of Commerce localized landing, and joint construction of global expansion business service industry standards. Relying on 14 years of deep cultivation, 70,000+ served enterprises, and 45 service networks at home and abroad, Bayshine has built a full-chain service system covering enterprises' construction period, operation period, and expansion period.
She stated that Bayshine will use ecosystem platforms and full-process empowerment to help enterprises seize AI and policy dividends, achieve secure landing, compliant operations, and steady growth, embarking on a new journey of globalization together with Chinese enterprises.
Major Releases and Strategic Cooperation
At the Summit, the "2026 White Paper on Enterprise Global Expansion" was officially released. A grand inauguration ceremony was also held for joint operation projects including Meipinhui, the Halal Industry Base, Consumer Finance, the Shenzhen Office of the Ghana-China Chamber of Commerce, and other collaborative initiatives, providing Chinese enterprises with full-chain digital tool support spanning policy consultation, compliance and risk control, and on-the-ground operations.
This series of achievement releases and strategic cooperation launches marks a new stage for enterprise global expansion services, evolving from single-link support to full-cycle, integrated, and digital ecosystem empowerment. It not only builds a more systematic, professional, and efficient support system for Chinese enterprises' global expansion but also creates a complete closed loop of policy guidance, data insights, tool empowerment, resource matching, and localized implementation. This effectively addresses pain points and bottlenecks in cross-border operations, comprehensively improving expansion efficiency and risk resilience. The collective release and inauguration further refine the global service ecosystem, strengthen domestic and international resource collaboration and industrial linkage, and inject core momentum for Chinese enterprises to enter global markets in a high-quality, sustainable, and steady manner, carrying important industry demonstration significance and practical value.
Sub-Forum 1: Digital & Intelligent Empowerment · Breaking Through Compliance — Practical Paths for SMEs' Global Expansion
Themed "Digital & Intelligent Empowerment · Breaking Through Compliance — Practical Paths for SMEs' Global Expansion", this sub-forum focused on pain points faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in going global. It featured practical sharing around three pillars: digital and intelligent operations, emerging market positioning, and compliance and risk control. Multiple guests from global industrial parks, overseas markets, tech enterprises, and cross-border service providers drew on frontline operational experience. Focusing on key emerging markets such as Southeast Asia and Africa, they conducted in-depth analyses from the perspectives of policy opportunities, operational management, investment layout, AI tool applications, and localization adaptation. Using real cases and actionable methods, they helped SMEs solve challenges in capital, talent, compliance, and market expansion, enabling them to enter global markets at lower costs and higher efficiency and achieve "small but beautiful, stable and strong" global development.
Sub-Forum 2: Green Transformation · Global Linkage — New Tracks and Cooperation Opportunities in Emerging Markets
Themed "Green Transformation · Global Linkage", this sub-forum centered on core topics including ESG, new quality productive forces, international standards, green tracks, and localized compliance. It brought together experts and industry leaders in macroeconomics, standard systems, sustainable development, and overseas markets. Guests shared insights on government-enterprise relations, green industry opportunities, zero-carbon park practices, and key compliance points in emerging markets. They explored in-depth pathways for integrating green development with enterprise globalization, driving Chinese enterprises to upgrade simultaneously in technology, standards, and branding, and seizing new global tracks with green competitiveness.
In the Roundtable Dialogue, representatives from mainstream cross-border platforms, brand global expansion enterprises, capital security services, and cross-border operation agencies gathered for in-depth exchanges on challenges and opportunities for Chinese enterprises' global expansion under the new 2026 landscape. They reached broad consensus on compliance system construction, supply chain optimization, brand globalization, and resource collaboration, building consensus and contributing wisdom to the industry's high-quality development.
Conclusion: Opening New Global Channels, Linking a New Future for Global Expansion
The successful conclusion of the 2nd (2026) China Enterprise Global Expansion Summit marks a new chapter in Chinese enterprises' journey toward high-quality globalization. Distinguished by its high standards, professionalism, practicality, and ecosystem focus, the Summit stood at the height of national strategy while closely addressing enterprises' operational pain points. It achieved integrated progress in policy interpretation, experience sharing, resource matching, and achievement implementation. Through the main forum setting the direction, sub-forums solving problems, and major releases strengthening support, it delivered authoritative policy guidance, cutting-edge trend insights, and full-scenario practical solutions to Chinese enterprises across all dimensions and value chains. This helps enterprises clarify their direction, break through bottlenecks, and seize the golden opportunities of the 15th Five-Year Plan's inaugural year amid a complex international landscape.
As the global expansion ecosystem matures and service systems improve, enterprises are moving from scattered trials to collaborative expansion and from single-point breakthroughs to full-chain empowerment. Taking this Summit as a new starting point, Bayshine Group, together with the Belt and Road Environmental Technology Exchange and Transfer Center (Shenzhen) and high-quality domestic and international ecosystem partners, will continue to refine the enterprise global expansion service system. It will upgrade service capabilities, integrate global resources, and build more efficient communication and cooperation platforms, providing enterprises with one-stop, full-cycle support spanning policy consultation, compliance and risk control, digital and intelligent empowerment, localized implementation, and industry matching. This will effectively help enterprises reduce expansion costs, improve operational efficiency, and enhance risk resilience.
Global expansion is both an inevitable choice for enterprise growth and an era mission for China's industries to move up the global value chain. As a builder and promoter of the enterprise global expansion service ecosystem, Bayshine Group will continue to leverage its platform, resource, and professional advantages. It will deepen its capabilities in compliance services, ecosystem linkage, and global on-the-ground implementation, accompanying enterprises on their steady and long-term journey with more complete systems, more efficient collaboration, and more pragmatic empowerment.
Looking ahead, driven by policy dividends, ecosystem collaboration, and industrial upgrading, Chinese enterprises will surely navigate global markets with greater stability and stronger competitiveness. In the tide of globalization, they will write a new chapter of higher quality, more sustainable, and more impactful development.
