China Information Technology Expo, known as CITE, covers the electronics industry chain end to end: materials, components and equipment at one end, and the phones, robots, drones and displays that reach users at the other. The floor is divided into four halls — new-generation information technology applications, AI computing and data centres, core and leading-edge components, and special-purpose electronic components — and together they carry more than twenty theme zones.

Those zones run across smart mobile devices, wearables, smart home, AI robots, the low-altitude economy, data storage and computing, AI compute and large models, sports technology, AR and VR, integrated circuits, components and special-purpose electronics. The breadth is what makes a single visit useful to both sides of the trade: suppliers of components and production equipment, and the device makers who buy from them.