During yesterday’s opening ceremony of the 2025 Global Artificial Intelligence Machines and Electronics Expo (AIE) in Macau, Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai said in a speech that Macau will continue to optimise its technological innovation ecosystem and strengthen the synergy between research outcomes and their commercialisation, with the aim of fostering new economic growth engines.
The expo is held for the first time.
Sam also said that Macau will continue to vigorously seize the opportunities arising from the Macau-Hengqin integrated in-depth development and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), while promoting the steady growth of its technological innovation industries, with the aim of injecting fresh impetus into the high-quality development of the global electronics and information industry.
The three-day expo, which started yesterday and ends tomorrow, is being simultaneously held in Macau and Zhuhai.
In Macau, the expo is being held at The Venetian Macao’s Cotai Expo.
In his speech, Sam pointed out that President Xi Jinping paid an inspection visit to Guangdong Province last month and delivered an important speech that charted the direction for further deepening cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau.
Sam said that the GBA is a global cluster for consumer electronics, smart home appliances, high-end equipment, new-energy vehicles and other intelligent products, possessing comprehensive advantages in intelligent electronics industry clusters and technological innovation industry chains, adding that the GBA is committed to becoming an international science and technology innovation centre.
Sam noted that the inaugural AIE adopts the pioneering “one expo, two cities” model, held simultaneously in Macau and Zhuhai. The Macau venue focuses on intelligent electronics while the Zhuhai venue centres on intelligent machinery, Sam noted, adding that the expo in the two cities has together attracted professional buyers, exhibitors and leading technology companies from more than 30 countries and regions.
Sam noted that the expo features new-product launches, showcases cutting-edge achievements, and – by leveraging innovative customs policies and arrangements implemented in the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin – creates an international platform for consumer electronics that integrates exhibition, incubation and business matchmaking.
Sam noted that Macau, as an international city “backed by the motherland and connected to the world” and a core city of the GBA, offers visa-free entry to citizens from over 80 countries and regions, which make it convenient for industry professionals from foreign countries to visit Macau to attend exhibitions and conferences, pursue investment opportunities, and engage in business negotiations.
In Zhuhai, the fair is being held at the Zhuhai International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wanzai.
Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai (centre) watches a performance by a robot during his visit to the 2025 Global Artificial Intelligence Machines and Electronics Expo (AIE) at The Venetian Macao in Cotai yesterday. – Photo: GCS
