Mark Your Calendar! GREENEXT Expo 2026, Oct 29-30, Shanghai
GREENEXT Expo 2026 is officially set to return to the Shanghai Exhibition Center on 29–30 October 2026. As China's leading cross-industry exhibition and summit platform dedicated to sustainability, GREENEXT Expo continues to connect business, technology, and social innovation, creating opportunities for collaboration and accelerating the transition from sustainability ambition to real-world action.
Guided by its core mission, Sustain Every Business, GREENEXT Expo 2026 will be built around three strategic pillars — Low-Carbon Transformation, Tech Innovation, and Business for Good. Through exhibitions, high-level dialogues, immersive experiences, and cross-sector collaboration, the platform will bring together stakeholders from across industries to explore practical solutions and new pathways toward sustainable growth.
More than an annual event, GREENEXT Expo represents a year-round sustainability journey. Through five thematic zones and a series of cross-theme initiatives, the platform will spotlight key topics including Net Zero Engine, Nature Positive, Circular Economy, Business for Good, Fashion Forward, Urban Regeneration, Future Shapers, and Longevity & Wellbeing. By convening business leaders, policymakers, investors, innovators, and consumers, GREENEXT Expo aims to foster meaningful partnerships, inspire actionable solutions, and help organizations create both long-term business value and positive impact for society.
From Shared Vision to Industry Action, the Green Tide Keeps Rising
Since its debut at the Shanghai Exhibition Center in 2024, GREENEXT Expo has quickly established itself as one of China’s most influential cross-industry sustainability platforms. The inaugural edition, themed ESG and Sustainable Transformation, welcomed 4,306 professional visitors and over 100 brands and institutions, convening international experts for an intensive program of keynotes, panels, and workshops. The event successfully translated ESG and net-zero ambitions from conceptual consensus into actionable industry practices, laying a strong foundation as a collaborative ecosystem for sustainable development.
Building on this strong momentum, GREENEXT Expo 2025, held in September under the theme A Journey to Sustainability, delivered a significant upgrade in scale and depth. The event attracted over 5,022 attendees and more than 120 exhibiting companies, supported by 77 professional sessions that explored concrete pathways for industrial transformation. From the exploratory focus on ESG-driven change in 2024 to the solution-oriented depth of 2025, GREENEXT Expo’s steady growth reflects the deepening commitment of industry and society to sustainability. It has solidified its role in advancing new productive forces and connecting China’s innovative solutions with global best practices.
Five Thematic Zones and Cross-Theme Programs Building a Year-Round Sustainability Co-Creation Matrix
Adopting a systemic perspective that highlights the interconnected progress of people, nature, and industry, GREENEXT Expo 2026 will be built around five core thematic zones. These zones serve as the foundation for showcasing corporate sustainability innovation across multiple dimensions, complemented by targeted cross-theme programs that accelerate the year-round translation of ideas into tangible business applications.
Net Zero Engine spotlights low-carbon technologies, energy transition, green manufacturing, AI, and advanced materials — demonstrating how companies can strengthen value-chain competitiveness and operational resilience amid carbon neutrality goals. Nature Positive explores biodiversity protection, regenerative agriculture, water stewardship, and Nature-based Solutions (NbS), showing how ecological value can become enduring commercial and societal assets. Circular Economy features innovations in circular design, closed-loop systems, and new business models, illustrating how resource efficiency can drive scalable, growth-oriented strategies.
Addressing consumer-facing markets and public engagement, Conscious Living bridges sustainable consumption with responsible fashion, clean beauty, and healthy lifestyles — showcasing how brands meet evolving consumer expectations through creativity and accountability. Business for Good unites social innovation, education empowerment, cultural preservation, and impact investment, creating a virtuous cycle between commercial success and societal value.
A Synergy of Diverse Programs Addressing the Sustainability Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
Focusing on high-priority industries and real-world application scenarios, GREENEXT Expo 2026 introduces a series of cross-theme programs designed to fast-track implementation and deepen cross-sector collaboration. Through integrated programming, the platform moves sustainability beyond discussion — toward actionable frameworks, scalable mechanisms, and measurable outcomes.
From a global perspective, GREENEXT continues to advance its “Global Expansion Initiative,” supporting Chinese companies in navigating international compliance and market access challenges while building trusted, globally oriented supply chains. From March 30 to April 1, 2026, during the world-leading sustainability innovation event ChangeNOW in Paris, GREENEXT successfully hosted the China Country Meetup & Showcase: Climate & Circular Industry Solutions, presenting a comprehensive view of Chinese enterprises’ diverse practices in low-carbon transition and industrial innovation.
Leveraging this international platform—spanning more than 140 countries and engaging more than 40,000 sustainability stakeholders—GREENEXT, together with leading Chinese companies, showcased cross-sector solutions across three key themes: climate solutions, circular industry solutions, and innovation in Chinese culture. From circular economy and green materials to responsible consumption and cultural sustainability, these initiatives highlighted a wide spectrum of integrated approaches, helping Chinese solutions gain broader recognition and understanding in a global context.
During the event, representatives from industries including manufacturing, advanced materials, consumer goods, and cultural sectors convened for the China Country Meetup & Showcase: Climate & Circular Industry Solutions, engaging in in-depth discussions on low-carbon manufacturing, circular systems, supply chain transformation, and cross-regional collaboration. Through both exhibition and dialogue, GREENEXT further strengthened trust in Chinese enterprises within the European market, accelerated connections with high-quality international partners, and advanced globally competitive sustainable solutions toward wider adoption.
At the industry level, Fashion Forward addresses structural transformation in the fashion sector. Targeting brands, supply chain leaders, and innovation-driven enterprises, the program focuses on product innovation, decarbonization, circularity, supply chain optimization, transparency, and compliance. Through year-round executive networking, expert-led accelerators, and pilot co-creation, Fashion Forward develops a practical and replicable portfolio of sustainable fashion solutions. Previous participants include JNBY, Esquel, adidas, Ellassay, Mobi Garden, Reclothing Bank, the International Cooperation Committee of Animal Welfare (ICCAW), Canopy, YKK, Idole, Tayho, and the Redress Design Award — collectively driving the green transition of the fashion ecosystem.
At the application level, Urban Regeneration embeds sustainability at the city scale, using commercial spaces and communities as living labs for energy-efficient buildings, resource circulation, and optimized public spaces. Future Shapers connects universities and startups to unlock next-generation sustainable design and innovation. The newly launched Longevity & Wellbeing program responds to the growing silver economy by integrating age-inclusive design with health technologies — fostering collaboration across healthcare, housing, and lifestyle sectors to create inclusive, resilient models of sustainable living for all ages.
GREENEXT Expo 2026 Now Open for Industry Participation: Join Us in Co-Creating a Sustainable Future
Sustainability is never a solo endeavor — it is a collective symphony across the entire industry. As Dr. Hong Zheng, Founder of GREENEXT, states, “Sustainability is not an isolated challenge for one sector. It is a systemic transformation that requires participation across the entire value chain. GREENEXT aims to break down industry barriers, connect key players from resource providers to end consumers, and co-create solutions that combine wisdom, shared responsibility, and symbiotic growth for a truly sustainable future.”
Participants can engage deeply through exhibition booths, solution showcases, panel discussions, keynote speeches, insights sharing, closed-door roundtables, strategic meetings, pilot project co-creation, and progress release — enabling real-world testing of solutions, creation of compelling content, and acceleration of cross-industry partnerships and opportunities.
GREENEXT warmly invites brands, industry leaders, manufacturing and tech innovators, distributors, retailers, real estate and park operators, government bodies, public institutions, investors, and other stakeholders to join this landmark event. Whether your focus lies in technology, transportation, construction, manufacturing, or consumer-facing sectors such as food, fashion, beauty, cultural tourism, and agriculture, GREENEXT Expo offers a premier platform to access high-quality resources, explore low-carbon transformation pathways, and achieve dual commercial and societal value.
29 -30, October 2026 | Shanghai Exhibition Center
Join us at GREENEXT Expo — where ambition meets action, and sustainability powers the future of every enterprise!
