The China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as CIAME) is recognized as the leading agricultural machinery brand exhibition in Asia and a world-renowned industry event. It has grown into an international professional platform that integrates exhibitions and exchanges, brand promotion, information sharing, trade negotiations, technology transfer and policy implementation.
The 2026 edition opens in the first year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan period and moves to Tianjin for the first time, with across-the-board upgrades in exhibition scale, exhibitor structure, supporting events, visitor organization and on-site services — the most influential gathering of the global agricultural machinery industry this year.
To facilitate visits, machine selection and purchasing, business negotiations and professional exchanges by all relevant organizations and industry colleagues, the relevant matters are hereby announced as follows.
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This edition is the largest in the history of the event. The key figures and the exhibitor lineup are summarized below.
This edition covers nearly 300,000 m² and, for the first time, takes place entirely indoors. More than 3,000 enterprises are exhibiting, an increase of about 27% over the previous year; net stand area reaches 177,200 m², up about 31%. Around 1,600 companies have custom-built stands (including a small number of space-only stands) covering over 125,000 m² net, of which 675 are components exhibitors with custom stands, an increase of about 115%.
On the international side, global agricultural machinery giants and leading enterprises will exhibit in full force, including John Deere, AGCO, CNH Industrial, Deutz-Fahr, Kubota, Yanmar, CLAAS, Krone, LEMKEN, HORSCH, GRIMME, KUHN, AMAZONE, Fliegl, Unia, Lindsay, Valmont, Cummins and ZF. Delegations from Italy and Japan will make concentrated appearances.
Among domestic exhibitors, YTO, Weichai Lovol, World (Wode) Agricultural Machinery, Zhongnong Boding, Jilin Kunda, Jiufang Taihe, Changfa Agricultural Equipment, Lingong Agricultural Machinery, Changzhou Dongfeng and Zoomlion Agricultural Machinery rank among the largest stands, with leading enterprises from every industry segment in attendance.
A total of 665 companies are exhibiting for the first time, as the exhibition’s magnetic effect keeps strengthening.
Segment exhibitors also include the following companies across the industry value chain:
The exhibition covers the full agricultural machinery value chain, organized into five exhibit categories.
Tractors; internal combustion engines and generator sets; electric motors.
Tillage and land preparation machinery; conservation tillage machinery; agricultural construction machinery and farmland infrastructure machinery; planting machinery, pre-sowing seed treatment and seedling-raising equipment; transplanting machinery; fertilizing machinery; plant protection machinery; irrigation and drainage equipment; intertillage and weeding machinery; harvesting machinery and post-harvest handling machinery; transport machinery; agro-product processing machinery and equipment.
Feed processing equipment, forage equipment and consumables, balers, silage and yellow-feed harvesting machinery, straw comprehensive utilization equipment, agricultural waste treatment and utilization equipment, and livestock breeding and manure treatment and utilization equipment.
Greenhouse equipment; edible-fungus production equipment; other protected agriculture equipment.
Agricultural machinery components and consumables; machining equipment; maintenance equipment and tools.
Smart agriculture (artificial intelligence, intelligent machinery, and related intelligent sensing, analysis, decision-making and control software and hardware); agricultural robots; new energy equipment; machinery for hilly and mountainous areas; fruit, vegetable and tea machinery; agricultural drones; displays of agricultural socialized services and of the achievements of national demonstration planting cooperatives; international delegations; and financial and insurance services.
(1) Addressing new developments and needs in the industry, a series of themed conferences, technical seminars and business-matching events will be organized around key topics, including “AI + agriculture”, the integration of machinery and agronomy, grain yield improvement, new energy agricultural machinery, intelligent machinery, the low-altitude economy and agriculture, machinery for hilly and mountainous areas, scrappage and renewal, second-hand machinery, modern protected agriculture, conservation tillage, harvest loss reduction, disaster prevention and mitigation, machinery maintenance services, socialized services, and international exchange and cooperation.
All sessions are open to registered visitors and will be announced in the official event schedule.
More than fifty conference sessions are scheduled for the afternoon of October 25 and October 27–28; the afternoon of October 26 is reserved in principle for closed-door meetings.
(2) A public launch platform will be set up for the first time. Launch content submitted by enterprises and institutions will be screened and scheduled for on-stage presentation in time slots, with advance promotion and on-site media coverage.
(3) Student study-tour activities will be held for the first time, including an on-site live-streaming competition and a photography competition for university students, bringing quality content from young creators’ perspectives and wide dissemination through the CIAME promotion platform. A charity job fair, “Aid Students, Support Enterprises”, will also connect nearly one hundred exhibiting companies with more than ten thousand students from 28 universities and colleges in Tianjin.
(4) During the exhibition, test-drive and test-ride activities for new energy tractors and intelligent machinery will be held. Visitors are welcome to sign up on site following venue guidance.
(5) A field-day demonstration of promoted agricultural mechanization technologies will be held outside the halls, concentrating on intelligent machinery, precision seeding, efficient plant protection and low-loss harvesting, with live field operation demonstrations showcasing the achievements of modern agriculture and agricultural mechanization.
(1) Domestic visitor outreach. Invitations will target competent authorities including the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Commerce; units across the agricultural mechanization system; the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, state farm systems and supply-and-marketing cooperative systems; as well as farmers’ and agricultural machinery cooperatives, comprehensive farming service centers, agricultural socialized service organizations and leading agricultural industrialization enterprises.
Visitor outreach also covers large growers, family farms and machinery operators, as well as major grain-producing areas, advantage areas for specialty agricultural products and modern agricultural industrial parks.
Also invited are agricultural universities and research institutes, industry associations and societies, agricultural machinery manufacturers, distributors (including second-hand machinery dealers), maintenance service providers, physical marketplaces, financial and insurance institutions, and industry investors.
(2) Overseas visitor outreach. The exhibition will continue to invite global agricultural and machinery industry organizations and trade promotion bodies, manufacturers and traders, and will broadly organize representatives of machinery import organizations from Belt and Road partner countries and the Asia-Pacific region to visit and purchase.
Long-term cooperation mechanisms are in place with agricultural machinery associations in more than 60 countries, and professional purchasing delegations from multiple countries have confirmed participation. The China-Foreign Agricultural Machinery Trade Conference, now in its fifth year, has been significantly upgraded: it will open one day before the exhibition with an expected scale of one thousand participants and dedicated one-on-one meeting zones.
(3) On-site services. The viewing, hearing, mobility and rest experience will be comprehensively improved, with widened aisles, optimized visitor routes and a multi-level wayfinding system. Multiple one-stop service centers will be set up with English-speaking volunteers and bilingual guides, and key signage will add Russian and Spanish.
Numerous public rest areas, negotiation zones, photo spots, a self-service badge-printing experience zone and cultural-creative merchandise outlets will be available.
(4) Citywide atmosphere. Agricultural machinery elements will be integrated into Tianjin’s streetscapes, transport hubs and commercial districts, with light shows at the Tianjin Eye, rotating screen broadcasts, a dedicated Metro Line 1 CIAME train, and light-box advertising at key stations.
(5) Visitor ticket benefits. Tianjin will offer exclusive discounts for exhibition badge holders. By uploading their exhibitor, visitor, media or staff credentials for review in the dedicated zone of the “2026 Tianjin Ticket Benefit Program 2.0”, visitors can enjoy discounts, rebates and bonus offers at partner restaurants, hotels, shops, tourist attractions and sports and leisure venues across the city.
(6) Cultural display. A special exhibition reviewing 30 years of CIAME will be staged, including, for the first time, a “Heritage Trail of Classic Agricultural Machinery” zone tracing the exhibition’s development stages and key milestones and presenting the evolution of the industry and of China’s agricultural mechanization.
This appendix explains how to register for the exhibition in advance and how to reach the venue by taxi or metro.
CIAME 2026 continues to operate a real-name visitor registration system. To avoid long queues at on-site registration caused by network conditions, visitors are advised to complete real-name registration and book their visit in advance through the official WeChat account. The process is as follows:
Gifts for pre-registered visitors (registered before October 20): (a) an exhibition catalogue or cultural-creative gift pack, given on arrival October 26–28 (limited to 2,000 sets per day); and (b) one food and beverage voucher (worth RMB 30) redeemable at partner shops in the halls on October 27–28 (limited to 4,000 per day).
Pre-registered visitors can also self-print an exclusive real-name badge at the badge experience zone on site.
By taxi or ride-hailing: Navigate to the temporary drop-off point at Gate 1 (south side of Phase 1) or Gate 52 (north side of Phase 2), then enter through the Registration Area at the South Plaza of Zone N (south of Phase 1) or the North Plaza of Zone S (north of Phase 2). Reference routes by car:
| Origin | Distance | Estimated drive time | Reference fare |
| Tianjin Binhai International Airport | about 23 km | about 40 min | about RMB 35 |
| Tianjin Railway Station | about 23 km | about 40 min | about RMB 35 |
| Tianjin West Railway Station | about 30 km | about 50 min | about RMB 45 |
| Tianjin South Railway Station | about 35 km | about 60 min | about RMB 55 |
By metro: