▲ On-site scene of “The Night of Haidian” event of the 2026 CIFTIS

On the evening of September 11, “The Night of Haidian” event of the 2026 CIFTIS, hosted by the Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau and the People's Government of Haidian District, was successfully held at the Longhui 1910 Cultural and Creative Industrial Park, presenting to the world an innovative, open, inclusive, and vibrant Haidian. Yuan Xiaoming, Assistant Minister of Commerce, Tang Wenhong, Vice Mayor of Beijing, and Aziza Geleta, Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Ethiopia in China, delivered addresses. Zhang Ge, Secretary of the District Committee, delivered a welcome speech, stating that Haidian will focus on building a world-leading science and technology park, vigorously promoting the development of trade in services toward “globalization, facilitation, and intelligence”, and driving high-quality development of trade in services through high-level opening-up. Xu Xinchao, Deputy Secretary of the District Committee and District Mayor, delivered a thematic promotion on Haidian's investment value. Piao Xuedong, Director of the Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau; Yue Li, Deputy Secretary of the District Committee; Ma Guangyao, Member of the Standing Committee of the District Committee and Executive Vice District Mayor; Sui Xiaofeng, Member of the Standing Committee of the District Committee and Vice District Mayor; Zeng Tao, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the District People's Congress; and Wang Weili, Vice Chairperson of the District Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended. The event invited representatives of embassies in China, overseas Chinese community leaders, and Chinese and foreign guests from international business associations and international organizations, Haidian going-global and foreign-funded foreign trade enterprises, and renowned investment institutions, gathering in Haidian to discuss friendship and cooperation.

Zhang Ge stated that in recent years, Haidian has transformed old factory buildings into new spaces for international exchange, sci-tech services, and cultural integration through urban renewal, vividly interpreting the distinctive characteristics of Haidian's high-quality development. With sci-tech innovation as the core engine for economic development, Haidian has gathered and strengthened emerging industries and future industries, taking artificial intelligence as the leader and guide, with priority planning to build the Centennial Jingzhang AI Innovation Belt, and concentrating efforts to build a global AI industry highland, maintaining a high-quality development momentum in economic and social affairs. Haidian will continuously enhance the capacity of sci-tech services, accelerate the transformation of sci-tech achievements, vigorously cultivate new growth poles for trade in services, and build a capital matrix covering the full lifecycle of sci-tech enterprises. It will adhere to high-level opening up, proactively integrate into the global sci-tech innovation network, continuously expand the international circle of friends, and continuously enhance Haidian's international influence. Looking to the future, Haidian will deeply link with global innovation resources, normalize and strengthen precise matchmaking with foreign institutions in China, international business associations, and enterprises, and deepen practical cooperation in fields such as sci-tech R&D and cross-border trade. It will continuously improve the liberalization and facilitation levels of trade in services, proactively align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, and attract more foreign-funded enterprises to invest and develop. It will strengthen digital-intelligent empowerment, enhance technology sharing in artificial intelligence and other fields, vigorously cultivate new business forms and models such as digital services and intelligent services, and promote two-way empowerment between sci-tech innovation and modern service industries. “The Night of Haidian” at CIFTIS is a warm bridge for deepening exchanges and facilitating cooperation. Haidian welcomes global entrepreneurs, investment institutions, and industry organizations to take root and thrive here. Haidian will also extend its greatest sincerity, optimal services, and best ecosystem to deepen cooperation with all partners, jointly explore the blue ocean of trade in services, and co-create the future of the intelligent era.

In his thematic promotion, Xu Xinchao stated that Haidian is a land of innovation, fostering an innovation ecosystem that encourages exploration and tolerates failure, gathering global talents, attracting international giants to take root and deepen their layout, and enabling leading enterprises rooted here to go global. Haidian has innovatively built the “Five Parties, Six Forces” mechanism, opening up the “last mile” of sci-tech achievement transformation, and accelerating the conversion of laboratory research sparks into industrial development engines. Haidian is a future city intelligent agent, seizing the development opportunities of artificial intelligence to build a full-stack, implementable AI industrial ecosystem, constructing an innovation system with integrated computing power, models, data, and scenarios, accelerating the industrialization of frontier research, and exploring new paradigms of AI-empowered urban development. Haidian is a model of human habitation environment, where the Three Hills and Five Gardens are nestled amidst mountains and waters, with over one hundred parks spread across the district, and the “Qinghe Zhizhou” waterfront green corridor running through it. Historical heritage and modern arts complement each other, with complete commercial and educational amenities. Mountains, waters, culture, and innovation ecology coexist, attracting young people to settle and build their careers, with urban vitality continuously bursting forth. Haidian is a pioneer of high-level opening up, always embracing global resources with the greatest sincerity, precisely introducing policy measures, tailor-making “green channels” for enterprise landing, continuously polishing its internationalized business service brand, and providing an open, convenient, efficient, and secure development environment for all types of market entities.

The event released 9 enterprise-friendly policy measures covering foreign investment attraction, foreign trade quality improvement, talent services, cross-border cooperation, and industrial development. Key project signing ceremonies were held, and “Haidian District's Global Service Partners” were accredited. Thematic short films “Linking the World” and “Going-Global Partners” comprehensively showcased Haidian's high-quality development achievements in trade in services and key projects of the Centennial Jingzhang AI Innovation Belt, presenting the full-chain going-global service ecosystem of “having a port within the district, a network overseas, and full-journey escort”. The event also created an immersive trade in services integration development experience and matchmaking functional zone, a Centennial Jingzhang AI Innovation Belt display and policy interpretation zone, and set up roadshow negotiation segments, building a platform for linking global resources and promoting open cooperation.