The 2014 East China Circuit Board and Surface Mount Expo (2014 CTEX EXPO) will be held in Suzhou International Expo Center from May 14 to 16. More than 360 domestic and foreign manufacturers participated in the exhibition, with a total exhibition area of more than 20000 square meters. Both the exhibitors and the exhibition scale increased by 5% compared with last year. It is estimated that more than 25000 people will be attracted to visit the exhibition, which is the largest scale in the decade since the exhibition was held.

The East China Circuit Board and Surface Mount Exhibition is sponsored by the Taiwan Strait Economic and Technological Cooperation Center, supported by the East China PCB Association and the South China PCB Association, co sponsored by the Taiwan Circuit Board Association, and co organized by Zhanzhao International, Taixiang Technology, Infocom Exhibition, and the Taiwan Advertising Exhibition. The exhibition is located in Suzhou Industrial Park, an important town of electronics manufacturing industry in mainland China. Since its inception, the main purpose of the exhibition has been to serve the East China Yangtze River Delta industry. Exhibitors have developed from the past focus on Taiwan businessmen to focus on both Taiwan and mainland investment, and some foreign-funded enterprises have participated in the exhibition. Visitors have also been affected. In recent years, the visitors are all professional buyers, which will bring more procurement opportunities to the industry.

It is reported that this exhibition has been held for ten years and has developed into an important business opportunity platform for the East China Science and Technology Corridor. In view of the current trend of the electronic industry and the expansion of the application fields of circuit boards, this 2014 CTEX EXPO will focus on five highlights of industrial development:

Highlight 1: theme exhibition of HDI board manufacturing process intelligent automation. Now green factories and intelligent automation have become an inevitable trend. This year, CTEX will arrange a number of intelligent automation activities, including PCB industry intelligent automation theme exhibition area (themed on mobile device market and HDI board manufacturing process with high precision requirements), automation forum and automation coaching group.

Highlight 2: PCB design and application in the development of automotive electronics. China's auto market has risen, and the demand for auto electronics has increased dramatically. Experts from Taiwan Zhonghua Automobile Company are specially invited to the exhibition to share the application trend of PCB in the field of automotive electronics. In addition, the exhibition also arranged a wealth of seminars to let participants understand the development of the global and Chinese markets, discuss the design trend of global smart cars, and see the development trends of key technologies in automobile manufacturing.

Highlight 3: new trend of wearable and vehicle mounted devices. Smart wearable technology and large size smart phones have gradually spread all over the world. This year's exhibition will hold a mobile device forum in cooperation with Nikkei Technology Online, the most authoritative representative electronic industry media in Asia, to explain the latest trends and design concepts of wearable and car mounted IT mobile devices.

Highlight 4: Bai Rongsheng's consultant lecture. Bai Rongsheng, a teacher who attracted attention from PCB industry across the Taiwan Straits (senior technical consultant of Taiwan Circuit Board Association), held a lecture this year with the theme of "the latest development of copper electroplating" and "the relationship between PCB strength and manufacturing process and boards". Its unique speech style and rich content of materials will attract hundreds of industrial R&D and directors to listen and communicate in the whole process every year, and the participants in the whole process will also be presented with teaching certificates.

Highlight 5: The application trend of flexible circuit boards in intelligent devices. It includes the most advanced market trend topics such as soft board market outlook, high-frequency circuit board technology and application, circuit board technology table and China's intelligent device trend.

During the exhibition, the sponsor of the exhibition will also arrange wonderful activities such as golf fraternity, the 10th anniversary thanksgiving dinner, PCB special area - independent display platform for PCB manufacturers, excellent PCB papers display area, Suzhou 10-year display area, global circuit board market trend theme area, manufacturer's new product release meeting, PCB book company, etc.