The 2025 Central Economic Work Conference proposed to "advance the integration of trade and investment, promote the integrated development of domestic and international trade, encourage and support the export of services, and actively develop digital trade and green trade." It also called for "optimizing the layout and scope of pilot free trade zones, deepening reforms to the foreign investment promotion system and mechanisms," and "strengthening coordinated development among key city clusters and deepening cross-administrative regional cooperation."
To implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, building on the fruitful achievements of the "1+5+N" trade model first introduced at last year’s expo (including the establishment of regular cooperation mechanisms with 16 national official institutions or business associations, facilitating low-altitude project cooperation and procurement orders totaling 43.28 billion yuan), the 2026 International Low-Altitude Economy Trade Expo will further deepen international economic and trade cooperation. It will continue to promote in-depth collaboration in the "R&D-manufacturing-application-service" industrial chain among cities in the Greater Bay Area (such as Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macau, and Hengqin) in the low-altitude sector. The expo aims to build an open and shared low-altitude industry ecosystem, helping the Bay Area become a global hub for technological innovation.