# The 7th Qingdao Multinationals Summit to be held in Qingdao: Joining Hands for a New Future during the 15th Five-Year Plan

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- Published: 2026-06-11T20:17:00+07:00
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QINGDAO, China, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The 7th Qingdao Multinationals Summit(
QMS), co-hosted by China’s Ministry of Commerce and Shandong Provincial Government,
will take place in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao, Shandong Province, from 
June 15 to 17. The theme of the summit is "Joining Hands for the 15th Five-Year 
Plan: Toward a New and Shared Future". A total of 435 corporate executives will 
attend the summit, including 355 representatives of overseas multinational enterprises(
MNEs) from 36 countries and regions including ASEAN, the EU, and the Republic of
Korea, as well as 80 executives from domestic firms. Most participants are leaders
of Fortune Global 500 companies and industry-leading enterprises.

**Summit Theme and Agenda**

This summit will focus on interpreting China’s latest opening-up policies and industrial
priorities under the 15th Five-Year Plan, providing greater policy clarity and certainty
for multinational companies and helping strengthen investor confidence.

Program highlights include the opening ceremony, a forum on the high-quality development
of multinational companies, and 23 parallel events covering investment promotion,
trade matchmaking, industrial exchanges and regional partnerships.

The event will hold two key sessions: the "Invest in Shandong • Boost Zone Development"
Targeted Investment Promotion Symposium and the Conference on Quality Infrastructure
for Cross-border Trade Facilitation.

This year’s event highlights featured topics including new energy vehicles and energy
storage. It adopts a diversified model combining forum dialogues, project negotiations
and on-site demonstrations to advance in-depth integration and targeted docking 
between multinationals’ cutting-edge technologies and industrial application scenarios
in Shandong.

Focusing on artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, future industries and
other frontier sectors, the summit taps into emerging opportunities and holds specialized
matchmaking events to bring together premium global innovation resources.

A series of featured activities will also take place, including the Forum on Transnational
Cooperation of the New Energy Vehicle Industrial Chain and the Dialogue on High-
Quality Development of Smart Agriculture, for targeted partnership docking.

**Policy Interpretation and Outlook**

The summit will host two closed-door meetings focusing on wider opening up of the
service sector and intellectual property policies, with officials from competent
national ministries delivering authoritative interpretations of China’s latest opening-
up initiatives. Following the established practice of the Multinational Corporations
30-Person Forum and the Shandong Provincial Government Economic Advisory Meeting,
the summit will build a dedicated dialogue platform for direct exchanges between
multinational corporate executives and Shandong provincial government authorities,
enabling instant feedback from industry and academic elites.

In addition, the summit will release in-depth research findings to advance China’s
broader institutional opening-up. As a highlight of the event, the Research Institute
of the Ministry of Commerce has unveiled its _Multinational Corporations in China_
report at the summit for six consecutive years. Aligned with the 2026 summit theme,
this year’s report is themed _Innovation for Ecosystem Building and Industrial Integration
for the Future_ and will be officially launched during the event.

The Qingdao Multinationals Summit serves as a high-level platform for dialogue and
collaborative innovation, facilitating the efficient flow and targeted alignment
of technological, capital and talent resources for innovation. It aims to fully 
leverage multinationals’ strengths in frontier fields including artificial intelligence,
advanced manufacturing, green and low-carbon technologies and biomedicine, and align
them with China’s drive for industrial transformation and upgrading. In this context,
multinationals stand as key participants and direct beneficiaries as China fosters
new quality productive forces.

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