CITIC Group pavilion shines at the WAIC 2025 in Shanghai. 

The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance was successfully held in Shanghai from July 26 to 29, attracting over 800 companies and showcasing more than 3,000 cutting-edge technologies.

Participating for the fourth consecutive year, CITIC Group brought together 20 subsidiaries to showcase its AI and tech innovations.

During the event, CITIC Group demonstrated its pioneering advances in frontier technologies such as quantum computing and AI for Science, highlighting how AI drives diverse industries toward high-end, intelligent, and sustainable development.

The company also presented leading practices in smart manufacturing, embodied intelligence, and the low-altitude economy, while empowering the AI industry through finance for tech and continuously fostering a globally integrated innovation ecosystem.

CITIC Group has continued to enhance its research capabilities and applied technologies, leveraging AI to facilitate the upgrading of traditional sectors and accelerate the emergence of new growth engines.

In January 2025, CITIC Dicastal Morocco was honored as a Lighthouse by the World Economic Forum — the first in Africa and the third developed by CITIC Group, setting a benchmark for excellence in global smart manufacturing.

The factory has implemented over 40 digital applications, leading to a 17 percent increase in overall equipment effectiveness, a 27 percent boost in labor productivity, and a 31 percent reduction in defect rates.

The first Lighthouse in Africa CITIC Dicastal Morocco factory is shown at the WAIC 2025 in Shanghai.CITIC Group builds a global innovation network.

CITIC Group is accelerating its financial services to AI development, delivering a full-cycle, diversified financial services, centered on equity investment, together with credit, bonds, and insurance, for tech innovation enterprises.

As of the end of June 2025, the CITIC equity investment alliance had managed over 320 billion yuan in funds, supported more than 1,100 tech firms through direct investment or incubation, and helped spur the rapid growth of leading companies such as Unitree Robotics and Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare.

CITIC also ranks first in the market in terms of its number and scale of IPO projects on the STAR (Science and Technology Innovation Board) Market, ChiNext, and the Beijing Stock Exchange, as well as in its underwriting of tech innovation bonds.

At the WAIC 2025, CITIC Group unveiled its vision to build a technology innovation system and accelerate R&D and the application of AI, quantum science, biotechnology, new energy and advanced materials.

In terms of innovation-driven development, CITIC Group is deeply integrated into the global innovation ecosystem.

In March, CITIC established an AI technology innovation center in Hong Kong, and launched the CITIC - PolyU Interdisciplinary Mathematical Digital AI Joint Laboratory, focusing on key fields including industrial intelligence, embodied AI, and fintech, to support Hong Kong's development into an international innovation and technology hub.

CITIC subsidiaries are also actively promoting global collaboration. Nanjing Steel Group has worked with 82 research institutions across 12 countries — including the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan — on over 500 research projects, contributing technological momentum to the global transformation of the steel industry.