(Yicai) July 17 -- More than one-third of the exhibiting companies and institutions at the third China International Supply Chain Expo are foreign, according to the chairman of the event’s organizer.

Held in Beijing from yesterday to July 20, the CISCE attracted 651 exhibitors from 75 countries and regions, with overseas ones accounting for 35 percent of the total, up from 32 percent last year, said Ren Hongbin, chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.

US exhibitors increased in number by 15 percent this year compared with last year, Ren noted, adding that over 170 overseas delegations have come to the CISCE for visiting and discussing purposes.

More than 100 technologies, products, and services are expected to make their debut at the CISCE, an increase of 10 percent from last year’s edition, according to data disclosed by Yu Jianlong, vice chairman of CISCE .

Nvidia is among the top companies attending the CISCE this year, especially after its founder and Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang showed up, breaking the news that the US government cleared the US chipmaker to restart the export of artificial intelligence chips to China.

At the CISCE, Nvidia brought its platform solutions Omniverse and Cosmos and Mega, an Omniverse Blueprint for developing, testing, and optimizing physical AI and robot fleets at scale in a digital twin.

Nvidia’s autonomous driving business showcased its advanced driver assistance system, safety system, and smart hardware-relevant accomplishments. The ADAS can render extreme scenarios for smart vehicles’ auxiliary driving through sensors to help carmakers without experience in training, executives from the company told Yicai, adding that this can offer lower costs and stronger extensibility.

Wacker Chemie attended the CISCE for the first time this year. The German chemicals product giant displayed its fire-resistant materials for the protection of new energy vehicles’ bus bars, high-performance thermal conductive materials for vehicle chips’ packaging and heat dissipation, and thermal conductive silicone materials to charge the guns of NEV charging systems, said Alvin Hu, president of Wacker China.

Wacker also showcased the silicon-based liquid cooling technology developed by its Chinese team, which can satisfy the needs of cloud computing and data centers for heat dissipation while lowering operating costs.  

Chinese robot startup Unitree Robotics also made its CISCE debut this year. The company brought its humanoid robot G1 and robot dog Go2.

Some of Unitree Robotics’ executives said they hope to become more familiar with the relations between the upstream and downstream supply chains at the expo and to hear responses from the market, so that the firm can improve its micro-sized robot products.

The international version of the 2025 Global Supply Chain Promotion Report was released during the CISCE. From 2018 to 2024, the promotion, linkage, and innovation indexes surged 18 percent, 7.7 percent, and 14 percent, respectively, with the resilience index rising just 3.4 percent, according to the report.

Technological innovations represented by augmented reality and generative AI are becoming new drivers for global supply chains and promoting them to enter a new stage of digitized, intelligentized, and green development, the report showed.

Editor: Futura Costaglione