2025-06-18
Chengdu, with its millennia-old cultural heritage of the Jinguan City, also boasts innovative cultural experiences. It sizzles with spicy culinary delights while pulsating with dynamic music festivals and sporting events. Since initiating the "Three Cities, Three Capitals" urban brand in 2017, aiming to build a world-renowned city of culture and creativity, a famous city of tourism, a city of sports events, and an international capital of gastronomy, music, and exhibitions, Chengdu is leveraging its urban passion and wisdom to deeply grasp international cultural development trends and global urban development trends, allowing the world to witness a new urban model that is both storied and vibrant.
On June 17, the "Three Cities, Three Capitals · Chengdu Selection" – brand promotion list was officially announced, hosted by Chengdu Media Industry Group and Chengdu Radio, Film & Television Group, with collaborative support from Ctrip, Douyin, and the Chengdu "Three Cities, Three Capitals" Research Institute, among other institutions. This event spotlighted Chengdu’s cultural, tourism, sports, culinary, music, and convention sectors across nine categories, showcasing the city’s distinctive character and cultural vitality. Among the honors, the China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference topped the "Top Ten Brand Exhibitions in Chengdu" list, and Tongwei Media, as an "Exhibition Enterprise with Outstanding Contribution", ranked among the top ten in the 2025 Chengdu "Three Cities, Three Capitals" Outstanding Contribution Enterprise list.
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"Public Voting + Expert Review"
Safeguarding Professional, Fair, and Authoritative Evaluation
Notably, this selection balanced popularity with expertise. The event adopted a dual-channel selection mechanism of "public voting + expert review," starting from the value dimensions of "enriching the city with culture, benefiting the people with culture, promoting industry with culture, making friends with culture, and mutual learning with culture," to comprehensively select the "Three Cities, Three Capitals" brand representatives. In terms of scoring weight, public voting accounted for 60% and expert review for 40%. The total number of votes exceeded 5 million, fully reflecting public attention and participation.
The candidate projects that entered the expert review underwent a comprehensive evaluation by senior experts from the six major industries of "Three Cities, Three Capitals," and the final results of this list were determined through weighted calculation. The judging panel included Zhu Dan, Dean of the School of Tourism and Culture Industry of Chengdu University and Dean of the Three Cities, Three Capitals Research Institute, Cai Shangwei, Director of the Cultural Industry Research Center of Sichuan University, and Liang Ping, Honorary Chairman of the Chengdu Federation of Literature and Art Circles, among five permanent judges, and invited a total of 45 well-known experts from the fields of literature, art, museums, media, tourism, sports, music, and exhibitions to jointly complete the evaluation, ensuring the professionalism, fairness, and authority of the selection.
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The China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference
Topped the "Top Ten Brand Exhibitions in Chengdu" List
Exhibitions and conventions are hailed as the "window to touch the world" and are a "barometer" reflecting the economic development level of modern cities. The seven-year-old China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference topped the "Top Ten Brand Exhibitions in Chengdu" list, alongside Chengdu Motor Show and Western China International Fair, becoming a window to observe the city's industrial development.
In recent years, the extension of Chengdu's exhibitions has been continuously expanding, and the connotation has been continuously enriched, with the stage expanding from domestic to global. For Chengdu, these conventions and exhibitions not only promote the rapid development of the local cultural and tourism industry but also create a vast platform for "Made in Chengdu" to reach the world.
The China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference has been recognized as a leading event, securing the top position among the "Top Ten Brand Exhibitions in Chengdu" list
Since its inception in 2018, the China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference has been successfully held for seven consecutive years, establishing itself as one of the top three international events in the global PV and energy storage industry, following the SNEC in Shanghai and the Intersolar Europe in Munich. The 2024 the 7th China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference attracted nearly 4,000 companies from the global PV and energy storage industry, with contracted deals exceeding RMB 30 billion. The event hosted 30 industry-related activities, including 15 specialized and academic parallel conferences. Over 34,000 guests and representatives from home and abroad participated in the conference, with the caliber of attendees reaching a new high. The event garnered attention from over 200 media outlets worldwide, generating over 150 million views across the internet, further enhancing its influence. The 2024 the 7th China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference was awarded the 2024 Brand Exhibition Award
The launch ceremony of the 2024 The 7th China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference
The conference's recognition underscores the rapid development of new energy industries, such as PV and energy storage, under the "carbon neutrality and carbon peak" goals, and highlights the positive outcomes of Chengdu's continuous cultivation and development of new fields and tracks in its exhibition and convention economy and industry.
The synergy between the city and the exhibition has propelled the growth of this industry event, further strengthening and enhancing the visibility of Sichuan and Chengdu in the international community. This has attracted global capital, talent, information, and technology, providing a crucial opportunity for the development of the PV and energy storage industry in China and worldwide, and serving as a powerful engine for the advancement of Sichuan and Chengdu's PV and energy storage industries.
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Achieving Common Prosperity in the PV Sector
Key Enterprises Drive Development, Building a Superior Ecosystem
Leading enterprises are vital engines for industry development, playing a crucial role in driving progress. Tongwei Media, a subsidiary of Tongwei Group, was ranked among the top ten outstanding exhibition enterprises in the 2025 Chengdu "Three Cities, Three Capitals" outstanding contribution enterprise list.
The China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference has been successfully held for seven consecutive years, with the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Sichuan Province, and the CPC Chengdu Municipal Committee and Chengdu Municipal People's Government providing careful cultivation, precise guidance, and strong support. As one of the organizers of the conference, Tongwei Group's industry leadership, guidance, and influence, as well as its ability to host and execute super-large international conferences, have been widely recognized within and outside the industry.
The former UN Under-Secretary-General, Erik Solheim, who has attended the conference for two consecutive years, stated in his speech that with the full support of global PV and energy storage enterprises, the conference's standards, scale, and degree of internationalization have been continuously elevated, contributing significantly to energy transition in China and worldwide, making its "golden brand" increasingly prominent.
In the view of the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Exposition, "the integration of industrial resources and corporate influence" has become a key phrase for the successful hosting of the previous PV and energy storage conferences. Chengdu's exhibition industry has a complete set of supporting industries, with numerous service enterprises for setup, stage design, and other services, forming a complete industrial chain. However, the core of successfully holding such a high-level conference lies in the leadership of global leading enterprises like Tongwei Group and their firm commitment to market-oriented operations. "Through the PV and energy storage industry conference, we aim to create a new energy industry convention and exhibition with national and global influence, which will benefit Chengdu's development of a green and low-carbon industry. We hope that enterprises like Tongwei, which possess industrial resources, corporate influence, and a strong sense of social responsibility, will drive the marketization of our city's exhibition industry, empowering Chengdu to become an international capital of exhibition to stimulate economic growth through exhibitions."
Tongwei Media was ranked among the top ten outstanding exhibition enterprises in the 2025 Chengdu "Three Cities, Three Capitals" outstanding contribution enterprise list.
As the organizer and executor of the conference, Tongwei Media is a national high-tech enterprise, a national technology-based small and medium-sized enterprise, and the Chengdu Enterprise Technology Center. It holds 11 national and 8 provincial qualification honors, and is listed as a key contact enterprise by the Ministry of Commerce and has been selected as a SDRI SME in Sichuan Province and a "Gazelle Enterprise" in Chengdu High-tech Zone, and won the 2024 International Exhibition Pioneer Award. As the leading enterprise in the Chengdu exhibition industry, Tongwei Media is committed to its corporate mission, responsibility, and accountability. It integrates and leverages the advantages of enterprises, industries, and society, utilizing market-oriented mechanisms to provide more professional, systematic, and targeted customized exhibition products for conference attendees and exhibitors, ensuring the conference has a strong and sustainable vitality.
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The annual photovoltaic and energy storage event will kick off in Chengdu in November
Global attention will once again focus on Chengdu, China
Achieving "Dual Carbon" targets demands transformative societal shifts. Currently, as the energy revolution redraws global industries, PV and energy storage sectors take center stage.
From Chengdu to the world, under the new era of global energy transition, through the window of the China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference, it is more conducive to exploring the new energy development path suitable for China's national conditions, Sichuan's characteristics, and Chengdu's features.
The 2025 the 8th China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference, themed "With PV & Energy Storage, Empowered by Integration, Building an Intelligent Future," will be grandly held in Chengdu from November 17 to 20. This conference will further aggregate the forces of governments, industries, enterprises, and all sectors of society with a larger exhibition scale, more exhibiting companies, and richer exhibition activities. It will link nearly 100 authoritative organizations, including government departments, industry and local business associations, and give full play to the resource advantages of each organization to jointly create an international event in the photovoltaic and energy storage industry that leads the industry trend. It will showcase the latest products, technologies, achievements, and trends in the development of China and the global photovoltaic and energy storage industries to all sectors, injecting surging momentum into the rapid development of the photovoltaic and energy storage industries in China and the world.
In the golden autumn of November
Global attention will once again focus on Chengdu, China
global delegates will reunite in Chengdu
for this top-three international industry summit
The city, enterprises, and exhibitions
will coexist, empower each other
promote each other's growth, and share success
Starting from the China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference
This event represents
a "mutual commitment"
between a Fortune 500 company and a city
and will surely interpret a new and brilliant chapter