Pumps, compressors, and fans rarely get their own headline exhibition anywhere in the world, which is part of what makes CFME notable. The 13th China (Shanghai) International Fluid Machinery Exhibition runs October 21 to 23, 2026 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai's Hongqiao district, and this edition folds in the International Industrial Valve Expo as a co-located component — putting pumps, valves, compressors, and blowers under one roof rather than splitting them across separate calendar dates.

A Show Built Around China's Industrial Base

CFME is organised by the China General Machinery Industry Association together with the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), pairing a national industry body with one of the country's largest purpose-built exhibition venues. Organisers are planning for more than 800 exhibitors and over 60,000 professional visitors across roughly 75,000 square metres, figures that place it among the more substantial fluid-machinery events on the Chinese trade calendar rather than a niche regional gathering.

The merger with the valve expo matters commercially. Pump buyers and valve buyers overlap heavily in industries like petrochemicals, water treatment, power generation, and general process manufacturing, and a combined event lets specifiers cover both categories of equipment in a single site visit rather than travelling to separate shows months apart.

What's on the Floor

Expect centrifugal and positive-displacement pumps, industrial valves and actuators, compressors, industrial fans and blowers, seals, and the instrumentation and control systems that tie fluid-handling equipment into plant automation. Buyers are typically engineers, procurement managers, and technical staff from chemical processing, water and wastewater utilities, power plants, and heavy manufacturing rather than general contractors.

Shanghai's Hongqiao exhibition district has effectively become a fluid-machinery calendar of its own, hosting CFME alongside FLOWTECH CHINA and other adjacent shows across the year rather than concentrating everything into a single mega-event. For international exhibitors weighing which of those dates to prioritise, CFME's pairing with the valve expo and its industry-association backing make it one of the more reliably well-attended options, particularly for companies selling into process industries where pumps, valves, and compressors are frequently specified together on the same procurement schedule.

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Why Hydraulic and Flow-Control Suppliers Attend

For pump and valve manufacturers, and for hydraulic component suppliers whose products sit adjacent to fluid-handling systems in industrial plants, CFME offers direct access to the Chinese engineering and procurement staff who specify equipment for new industrial projects. The valve expo's presence under the same roof widens that reach further, since many process plants procure pumps and valves through the same technical evaluation and the same purchasing committee.