Asia’s heavyweight construction machinery gathering returns to Shanghai from 23 to 27 November 2026, and it does so under a new name and a noticeably bigger footprint.
Long known as bauma CHINA, the Messe MΓΌnchen show now trades as bauma SHANGHAI, and for the 2026 edition it’s breaking out of a single hall into a “One Show, Two Venues” format. The fair will run across the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from 24 to 27 November and the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre from 23 to 26 November, a structural change that speaks to just how much floor space the event now commands.
The benchmark for that scale is the 2024 staging, which marked the show’s comeback after a four-year hiatus and posted records across the board, drawing 3,542 exhibitors from 32 countries and regions across roughly 330,000 square metres, with 281,488 trade visitors from 188 countries passing through the gates.
For equipment makers, the pull is twofold. bauma SHANGHAI doubles as the shop window for China’s domestic giants, XCMG, Sany, Zoomlion, SDLG and Lovol among them, and the bridgehead into the Chinese and wider Asian market for the international names that keep coming back, including Caterpillar, Manitou, Bomag, Wirtgen and Terex.
Organisers are positioning the 2026 outing as a two-way gateway at a moment when supply chains are being reshuffled and Chinese manufacturers are pushing harder into Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, with exhibitors from 30 countries already signed up well ahead of the doors opening.
New energy powertrains and intelligent, automated machinery dominated the conversation in 2024 and look set to do so again, which puts the show squarely on the radar of anyone tracking where construction plant is heading next.