CINIE 2026: Shenzhen International Nuclear Energy Industry Innovation Expo

What is Shenzhen International Nuclear Energy Industry Innovation Expo (CINIE)?

CINIE, known in Chinese as the Shenzhen Nuclear Expo (深圳核博会), is China's annual get-together for the civil nuclear industry. It combines a national conference on the "high-quality development" of nuclear energy with a large exhibition at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center in Futian. The main hosts are the China Energy Research Society and China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), which is headquartered in Shenzhen and runs the Daya Bay plant on the city's eastern coast. They are joined by the other state nuclear and power groups: CNNC, China Huaneng, China Datang, SPIC and China Energy Investment. The first edition was in 2022 and 2026 is the fifth. The organizers bill it as the world's largest nuclear energy event.

The exhibition covers the whole nuclear supply chain. The big stands belong to state-owned groups. At the 2025 show CGN brought more than 30 exhibits, including a new digital instrumentation-and-control system and its "Wukong" inspection robots, and CNNC showed its Hualong One and Linglong One reactor designs, floating reactors, uranium-from-seawater research and fusion work. Equipment makers such as Harbin Electric, Dongfang Electric, Shanghai Electric, China First Heavy Industries and Sinomach also exhibited, and the 2026 exhibitor news so far includes suppliers of special cables, domestic PLCs and bimetal composite pipes. The organizers counted 51 central state-owned enterprises at the 2025 edition, and more than 600 exhibitors over 60,000 m².

The conference side is at least as important as the floor. The 2025 programme had an opening ceremony and plenary with officials from the National Energy Administration and the nuclear safety regulator, a CGN supplier conference, and 15 themed forums. Topics included I&C digitalisation, advanced reactors, fusion, in-service inspection, plant construction, robotics and AI, cooling-water safety and materials ageing. There was also a debut showcase for new technologies, an AI + nuclear roadshow and science outreach for school groups. The organizers reported more than 50,000 professional visitors in 2025.

Who should go? Engineers, procurement staff and business-development people working in nuclear power, fusion, heavy equipment, instrumentation, robotics, specialty materials or nuclear medicine. It is also useful for foreign suppliers and consultancies trying to understand how China's reactor programme buys equipment, since CGN even held a supplier conference there in 2025. Registration is through the organizer's WeChat mini-program. The programme is aimed at the domestic industry, although the organizer also publishes its website in English, French and Russian.