IE expo Chengdu 2026

West China's Trade Fair for Environmental Technology Solutions: Water, Waste, Air and Soil

IE expo China, Asia’s Leading trade fair for environmental technologies, has again expanded its network in China. The aim of IE expo Chengdu, the new regional spin-off, is to showcase solutions for water, waste, air and soil management tailored to western China. The event will take place for the first time in June 2019. IE expo Chengdu combines trade show and congress in an ideal way. Located in one of the most important industrial centers in western China and politically embedded in the „Great Western Development Strategy“ it gets strong support by local government and associations.

Already the very IE expo Chengdu is a story of enormous success: In 2024, 17,855 trade visitors and 317 exhibitors participated in the West Chinese variant of the Munich IFAT in the Western China International Expo City in Chengdu, a city of 15 million people. With this debut event IE expo Chengdu has already established its position as the leading platform for environmental technology in West China.

For Jiang Gang, Managing Director of the organizing company Messe München Zhongmao, it is the high demand for technologies for the fair’s own fields of water, waste, air and soil that is the decisive factor for the success of the first IE expo Chengdu: “With IE expo Chengdu, we have created a tailored platform of solutions for West China’s most urgent environmental challenges. The great outcome is a proof of how much the western provinces insist on taking a sustainable economic course.“ Accordingly, the implementation of a specific regional environmental technology trade fair was important, says Jun Zhang, Director of the Chengdu Ecological Environment Bureau: “IE expo Chengdu 2020 has proved to be an excellent platform for exchange and cooperation for politics, business and research. The show stimulated the innovation vitality of Chengdu's environmental protection industry, its contribution to the overall economic growth and released greater development potential.”

With a total of 12 expert forums and conferences, this debut trade fair was convincing also in the field of transfer of knowledge. The highlight was, among other, the China Environmental Industry Summit Forum. Titled “Change and Reconstruction”, the forum was the platform for experts and participants to discuss possibilities of how the use of modern environmental technologies can mark the beginning of a new era of the industry in West China.