Brief (coffeeyo.com): The five-day 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) closed on 13 September, its showcases of the digital and intelligent transformation of global services drawing wide attention. Among the highlights were the hard-tech products brought by companies from Shanghai’s Changning District.
The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), a five-day event, wrapped up on 13 September. As a national-level comprehensive fair for trade in services, this edition presented the latest advances in the digital and intelligent transformation of the service sector worldwide, with companies from Changning District drawing keen interest from exhibitors at home and abroad for the hard-tech products they brought.
At the fair, the seventh-generation COFE+ fully autonomous robot café from Haitun Technology appeared in three zones, namely the Peru National Pavilion, the catering-robot area and the service-robot area, and many visitors queued to try it. Its robotic arm moved smoothly through the whole sequence of grinding, extraction and latte art, and within a few dozen seconds a specialty coffee with a perfectly finished pattern was placed in the taster’s hands. Custom designs uploaded by scanning a QR code were rendered in seconds using edible 3D milk-foam printing, and a number of overseas buyers at the show stopped to ask how the system could be deployed.
Haitun Technology is a high-tech company focused on intelligent service robots, with a core team drawn from technical talent at leading Chinese universities. The seventh-generation fully autonomous robot café shown here has achieved fully in-house hardware and a closed loop of wholly self-developed software. It gives tangible form to a new asset-light store model in which “the machine is the store, the machine is the service and the machine is the drink”: just 15 minutes of restocking and maintenance each day is enough to turn out a steady 300 cups, customisable across eight dimensions of flavour.
“The company now operates in 75 countries and regions across five continents, with installations ranging from universities and hospitals to major airports and cultural and tourism landmarks worldwide,” the founder of Haitun Technology explained. Technology, he said, is not meant to replace people but to free them from dull, repetitive work. “We want to make opening a café simpler, lower the barriers to entry and steady the returns, to leave the hard work to the machines and the good things to people. That, to our mind, is the core mission of this new chapter in the service industry.”
Xixiang Technology, another company native to Changning, used the fair to present a full-chain smart-catering solution running from smart canteens to unmanned retail terminals, drawing enquiries from industrial parks, campuses and overseas commercial operators. At its smart snack machine, visitors needed only a few simple taps to receive a steaming, freshly made light meal in under two minutes, and the completely contactless cooking process drew repeated praise. A few steps away, a smart health mirror linked dietary and health data to match nutrition to body composition dynamically: a user simply stood still for a quick body-fat scan and the screen immediately generated that day’s dietary advice.
As the first Chinese provider to put an AI unmanned kitchen into commercial use, Xixiang Technology has built fully automated cooking algorithms covering more than 3,000 dishes across China’s eight major cuisines, with over 3,000 client partners nationwide and deployments in campuses, industrial parks, hospitals, major sporting events and other settings. Its unmanned retail terminal, occupying just one to two square metres, can serve meals reliably around the clock with no staff on site.
A representative of Xixiang Technology said that, on the strength of more than a decade of technical development and over a hundred core patents, the company looks forward to connecting with more overseas partners, putting the principle of digital friendliness into practice, continuing to localise its offer for foreign markets, and sharing inclusive, convenient Chinese smart-catering technology and complete solutions. Using technology to build bridges for cooperation, it hopes to carry Chinese smart food-service onto the world stage.
Both companies have mature, proven commercialisation capabilities and clear paths to empowering their industries, and their joint appearance at CIFTIS is a snapshot of how Changning is weaving digital services together with everyday public services. Today a cohort of tech-driven service firms rooted in the district is exporting replicable, ready-to-deploy models of digital service to the world, combining proven delivery with an open stance on partnership and injecting a distinctly Changning brand of pragmatic momentum into the upgrading of the global service sector.
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