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Author | ZeR0
Editor | Mo Ying
Reported by zhidx on November 12, 2027, the global sci-fi industry is moving from an edge subculture to mainstream culture, becoming an important form of industry that combines technology and humanities. In 2025, the total revenue of China's sci-fi industry reached 126.1 billion yuan, growing by 15.7% year-on-year, and has continuously exceeded 100 billion yuan for three consecutive years, forming a complete industrial chain from content creation, film and animation development to immersive experience consumption; AIGC and virtual production technologies are reshaping content production methods, while digital twins and XR are expanding the boundaries of experiences.
The "one core and multiple points" layout of Beijing's sci-fi industry is accelerating its formation, with Shijingshan District achieving sci-fi industry revenue of 28 billion yuan in 2025, accounting for over 40% of the city's total, and the agglomeration effect continues to become more prominent. Against this backdrop, the 2027 Beijing International Sci-Fi and Future Industry Expo (hereinafter referred to as the Expo) is planned to be held in Shougang Park in Shijingshan District, Beijing in March 2027.
This year's Expo will be themed "Fantasy Starts the Journey · Intelligence Controls the Future", using sci-fi as a carrier and technology as the core, focusing on the integration of sci-fi with the six major future industries. The exhibition area is planned to be about 10,000 square meters, gathering over 100 exhibitors from home and abroad, and will concentrate on showcasing achievements, interactive experiences, communication and coordination, and industrial transformation, creating an international sci-fi industry event that combines professional standards, technological enthusiasm, and public experience.
I. From the first exploration to deepening implementation, the Expo continues to build a platform for the integration of sci-fi and future industries
Building on the experience from the first edition, the 2027 Expo further deepens its exhibition structure and experience methods, setting up four main exhibition areas: "Future Source", "Future Realm", "Future Vessel", and "Future Dream", plus the "Future Appointment" industrial connection and innovation incubation functional area. Through the core storyline of "Source—Realm—Vessel—Dream—Appointment", the Expo provides a layered progression, widely applying XR, digital twins, and other technologies to create scenario-based connecting channels, allowing visitors to become "future navigators" and achieve an immersive experience of "entering the exhibition hall is entering the future, viewing the exhibition is embarking on a journey".
In terms of exhibition layout, "Future Source" focuses on the six major future industry directions planned for the Expo—space technology, artificial intelligence, quantum information, advanced manufacturing, new energy and new materials, and life health—concentrating on showcasing a "technology engine room" that presents the transition from fundamental innovation to application implementation, allowing visitors to directly experience the technological support behind sci-fi imagination; "Future Realm" centers on human-machine symbiosis, showcasing cutting-edge products such as home service robots, intelligent companions, industrial collaboration robots, medical services, embodied intelligent whole machines, humanoid robots, and quadruped robots, bringing robots into real scenarios such as manufacturing, healthcare, catering, and home life, and presenting more possibilities of human-machine collaboration. The two exhibition areas, one tracing back to "basic technology" and the other extending to "human-machine relationships", together outline the fundamental framework of future industries transitioning from technological breakthroughs to scenario applications.
"Future Vessel" focuses on smart mobility, displaying intelligent connected vehicles, autonomous driving, new energy vehicles, low-altitude flying platforms, and AR interactive cockpit in vehicles, and creating a smart mobility real-scenario sandbox, transforming future transportation from concept into perceivable and experiential mobility solutions; "Future Dream" gathers sci-fi IP derivatives, sci-fi figurines, digital collectibles, VR gaming sets, and immersive experience equipment, promoting sci-fi cultural consumption into daily life; "Future Appointment" serves as the industrial connection and innovation incubation functional area, focusing on creative implementation, resource matching, and industry benchmark cultivation, providing a communication channel for exhibitors, investment institutions, and scenario providers. Thus, the Expo forms a complete chain from the source of technology, human-machine symbiosis, smart mobility, to immersive consumption and industrial implementation, gradually bringing sci-fi imagination into real scenarios and industrial practices.
In 2026, the Expo made its debut in Shijingshan, setting up four exhibition areas: "Future Leadership", "Future Human-Machine", "Future Mobility", and "Future Experience", with an exhibition area of nearly 10,000 square meters, gathering nearly 100 cutting-edge enterprises and innovative teams, highlighting achievements such as the national-level embodied intelligent training field, the Volcano Engine and Shijingshan Future Industry Exhibition Area, the Pacini Multidimensional Haptic Dexterous Hand, and the YuShu G1 humanoid robot. Over three days, the Expo attracted 65,000 visitors, completing a market-oriented exploration through "technology exhibition + industry connection". The first Expo had a positive impact on sci-fi culture, technology industry, and science popularization communication in three aspects: promoting sci-fi culture to become perceivable and participatory offline scenarios, building a platform for showcasing and exchanging cutting-edge technologies and enterprise needs, and becoming an important window for mass science popularization through immersive interaction, driving sci-fi tourism and cultural consumption in Shougang Park and Shijingshan District.
II. Emphasizing Interactive Experience and Industrial Integration, Accelerating the Realization of Sci-Fi Imagination
The 2027 Expo will highlight the two key themes of "immersive experience" and "industrial transformation." During the exhibition, showcases and interactive experiences will be organized around directions such as sci-fi films, humanoid robots, immersive large spaces, and cutting-edge technical equipment, with the release of the "Future Scenario: Global Sci-Fi Industry Development Report (2027)" on-site. The report will take a global perspective, focusing on the global sci-fi industry development pattern, technological evolution, industry ecosystem, and consumer trends, analyzing the growth path of the industry, and striving to become an important indicator for observing the global sci-fi industry, providing systematic references for industry practitioners, research institutions, investment institutions, and the general public.
In terms of interactive experience, the Expo will launch events such as the Interstellar Mecha Challenge, Human-Machine Co-Creation Art Space, Sci-Fi IP Immersive Theater, AIGC Sci-Fi Creation Workshop, and Sci-Fi eSports Battle Zone, emphasizing "enterable, interactive, and co-creative," promoting seamless integration between "experience, interaction, and consumption." Among these, the Interstellar Mecha Challenge will link with top domestic university mecha teams and humanoid robot companies, setting up two tracks: "Tactical Combat Competition" and "Humanoid Mecha Exhibition Match." The Human-Machine Co-Creation Art Space will showcase scenarios integrating robotic art, such as robot painting and robot bands.
In terms of industrial integration, the "Future Appointment" functional area will focus on creative realization, resource matching, and cultivating industry benchmarks, holding activities such as sci-fi industry investment and financing project pitch sessions and industry exchange salons. It will collect high-quality innovative projects from tracks such as sci-fi films, games, technical equipment, and IP operations, inviting leading venture capital institutions and industry capital representatives to form professional review panels, thus opening up financing channels for transforming creative results into industrial value, achieving "exhibition equals connection, participation equals transaction."
III. Linking Top-Level Industrial Resources, Seizing the Window of "Sci-Fi + Future Industry" Integration
During the 2027 Expo, Shijingshan will simultaneously hold multiple events such as forums, industry integration, and tour exchanges. As a platform for the integration display and connection of "Sci-Fi + Future Industry," the Expo will link with concurrent professional forums, industry promotion activities, and government-enterprise exchange resources, gathering guests such as government departments, academicians, experts, senior executives of leading enterprises, and representatives of international organizations. These guests will engage in exchanges focusing on sci-fi policy orientation, technological transformation, scene application, and industry cooperation, becoming an important entry point for grasping industry trends, linking top-level resources, and promoting government-enterprise collaboration.
The 2027 Expo will focus on the deep integration of sci-fi with fields such as technology, tourism, commerce, and film, precisely connecting upstream and downstream resources in the industrial chain, promoting the transformation of industry consensus, innovative concepts, and cooperation intentions formed through exchanges and discussions into actual industrial projects, cultivating a batch of sci-fi-related enterprises and projects with core competitiveness, and promoting the precise matching of cutting-edge technologies, innovative products, enterprise needs, and market resources. Building on the initial exploration, the 2027 Expo will elevate the对接 mechanism from the level of events to a regularized incubation channel. Meanwhile, leveraging the customer traffic红利 brought by the Expo, it will continuously optimize the integration scenarios of sci-fi, tourism, and commerce, enrich the sci-fi consumption formats, maintain the growth trend of customer traffic and consumption, deepen the integration of sci-fi IPs with regional tourism resources, and drive the development of related industries such as catering, accommodation, and cultural and creative products, injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of the regional economy.
Conclusion: Creating a Sci-Fi Event Shared by Everyone
The audience of the 2027 Expo will cover sci-fi industry professionals, AI and robotics and VR/AR companies, aerospace enterprises, smart hardware companies, research institutions and university scholars, investment institutions, as well as core sci-fi fans, general tech enthusiasts, families with children, students from primary and secondary schools, and urban tourism and cultural groups. The organizing committee will build a publicity system around four dimensions: brand enhancement, industry empowerment, audience expansion, and content breakthroughs, collaborating with central media, specialized media, city media, and new media matrices to launch a series of pre-event topics, exhibition exploration live streams, KOL collaborations, and media interviews.
Currently, the Expo's recruitment and exhibition organization have started in parallel. The organizers stated that they welcome participation from sci-fi IP holders, technology companies, international sci-fi organizations, transnational cultural institutions, universities, and research institutions both domestically and internationally, jointly creating a sci-fi industry event that connects reality with the future, technology with imagination, and China with the world.
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