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The expo behind Guizhou's data-centre boom — 300+ exhibitors over 60,000 m² in Guiyang, open to the public 28–30 August. The ticket costs ¥50 and the checkout is WeChat-only.
Almost every report gives the dates as 28–30 August. That is the conference. The exhibition is four days and starts a day earlier:
If you are showing a taxi driver where to go, use the Chinese venue names above. The official site publishes no street address, and we would rather give you the name than a number we could not verify.
Five themed sections — compute infrastructure, data supply, model-driven applications, security, and interactive experience — plus a guest-of-honour province pavilion (Guangdong this year), a culture-tourism-and-commerce digital zone, and an International Data Exchange Zone. The organisers promise embodied-AI, smart-healthcare and smart-tourism zones you can physically interact with.
Two things included in the ¥50 ticket are worth knowing about, because they are more fun than a normal trade floor:
For scale, the 2025 edition drew 16,000 conference attendees and 91,000 visits to the exhibition, with 375 exhibitors of which 30 were from outside China, and 168 foreign guests from 31 countries. So foreign attendance is normal — at the invited-guest level.
¥50 per person per day, single entry, valid only on the date bought, non-refundable and non-exchangeable, with staggered entry slots. Tickets went on sale on 16 August 2026. Entry is by QR code plus a security check, and you must carry a valid identity document.
The organisers list three purchase channels — the official website, the expo's own WeChat mini-program, and a ticketing mini-program — but all three funnel into the same WeChat mini-program, which requires real-name login and Chinese mobile payment. There is no web checkout, no international payment path, and no non-WeChat option.
The unanswered question. The official ticket materials say “real-name” and “valid identity document” and stop there — no list of accepted documents, no passport mention, no foreigner section, and no English anywhere in the ticketing material. The contact list on the official site includes a desk for domestic guests and none for foreign ones. There is a line circulating online that foreign visitors register by binding passport details; it comes from a commercial exhibition directory, cites nothing, and we are not going to repeat it as fact. One genuinely encouraging detail we did verify ourselves: the official visitor login page accepts a phone number or an email address, with no country-code restriction on the field.
So the realistic routes for a foreign visitor are: have someone resident in China buy the ticket, or ring the ticket desk in advance on 0851-84133409. If you are in Guizhou this week and want us to sort it, message us on WhatsApp — this is exactly the kind of WeChat-only wall we get people over.
Metro Line 1 to Guoji Shengtai Huiyi Zhongxin (国际生态会议中心) station, exit C is the nearest stop for both venues. From Guiyang North railway station it is two stops on Line 1, or about fifteen minutes and ¥20 by taxi. From Longdongbao airport (KWE) a taxi takes around half an hour; by metro it is Line 2 to Penshuichi, change to Line 1, roughly an hour. These transit details come from local guides, not the organisers, who publish no travel page — check before you rely on them.
A note on the English site: it exists, and covers about, news, agenda and contact — but the newest English news item predates the ticket announcement entirely, and none of the ticketing information is translated. An English-only reader visiting the official site would not learn that public tickets exist at all.
Status: The exhibition runs four days, 27–30 August. The conference programme — opening ceremony and forums, at a different venue — runs 28–30 August and is invitation-only. Media coverage usually gives only the conference dates, which is why the exhibition's extra day gets lost. Dates, venues, prices and public-day policy are confirmed from the organisers' own materials. What is not confirmed is whether a foreign passport works. The official ticket materials specify real-name login and a "valid identity document" without listing which documents qualify; there is no foreigner guidance, no English ticketing page, and the contact list has a desk for domestic guests but none for foreign ones. A claim that foreigners register with a passport circulates on a commercial exhibition directory — it cites no source and we are not repeating it as fact. Source: the expo's official site bigdata-expo.cn (agenda, visitor login and contact pages read directly on 22 August 2026), the organising committee's ticket-launch announcement of 16 August and ticket guide of 17 August, the Guiyang municipal government announcement of 29 July, and China News Service's closing report on the 2025 edition · checked 2026-08-22