The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services opened Sept. 9 at Beijing's Shougang Park, bringing together participants from 90 countries, regions and international organizations and more than 1,800 on-site exhibitors. The event, themed "Global Services, Shared Prosperity," includes 473 Fortune Global 500 companies and other industry leaders, more than 100 product and service debuts, and a new roadshow area supporting Chinese companies' overseas expansion. Norway is the Country of Honor and held a promotion event and China-Norway business cooperation seminar alongside the fair, where six groups of projects were signed across financial services, trade promotion, regional cooperation and other fields. The fair is highlighting innovations in healthcare, artificial intelligence, finance, transportation and energy, including an AI-powered mobile medical vehicle, Mindray's MT7000 fully automated laboratory intelligent assembly line, Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical and medical-device products, Meituan's first offline display of LongCat-2.0 and CatPaw, and ICBC computing-power financial services. Speakers also identified cooperation opportunities in digital services, green transition, maritime industries, aquaculture, healthcare, tourism and education. China's services trade reached nearly 4.45 trillion yuan in the first seven months of 2026, up 8.3 percent from a year earlier, while Brand Finance ranked China second globally with 21 of the world's 100 most valuable trade-in-services brands.