Overview of 2025 Guangzhou Audio and Lighting Exhibitions
I. Details of GETshow 2025
- Exhibition Time and Venue: It was grandly held at Area B of the Canton Fair Complex from February 24 to 27, 2025.
- Exhibition Scale: The exhibition covers an area of 130,000 square meters, with 13 pavilions, including 8 lighting pavilions, 3 audio pavilions, 1 cultural and tourism pavilion, and 1 conference system pavilion. The large scale provides a broad space for exhibitors and visitors to display and communicate.
- Host and Organizing Units: Hosted by the Guangdong Performing Arts Equipment Industry Association and organized by Guangzhou Gaoxiao Exhibition Co., Ltd.
- Exhibition Participation: It attracted more than 1,000 professional lighting and audio brands from around the world, gathered more than 100 professional visiting groups from over 80 countries and regions, and received a total of nearly 110,000 professional visitors, fully demonstrating its strong appeal and extensive influence in the global performing arts equipment industry.
- Exhibit Range: Focusing on cutting-edge achievements in the field of stage technology and intelligent sound and light, the exhibition covers core sectors such as professional audio equipment, lighting systems, audio-visual technology, and stage mechanical devices. At the exhibition site, thousands of innovative products such as intelligent lighting control systems, ultra-high-definition LED screen matrices, and new acoustic materials were unveiled, comprehensively demonstrating the infinite possibilities of technology empowering artistic creation.
- Exhibition Activities:
- Light and Shadow Shows: More than 100 stunning light and shadow shows were splendidly presented by combining high technology and art, showing the international cutting-edge technologies of the industry in an entire industrial chain manner. The two key original light and shadow shows, “Sheng” and “Extreme SHOW”, have become typical cases of cultural and technological integration. “Sheng” created a progressive visual sublimation journey through 7 immersive light and shadow performances, each lasting 15 minutes, using dynamic ground projection, three-dimensional beam weaving and other technologies. With the theme of “Morning” and the core concept of “The sun rises in the east, chasing the light to the extreme”, “Extreme SHOW” organically integrated the majesty of the Qin and Han Dynasties, Lingnan charm and modern technology through three performance chapters of “Red, River, and Dance” with the help of mechanical track devices and global sound field systems, creating a new paradigm of the “light and shadow + cultural tourism” industry.
- Forums and Annual Meetings: During the exhibition, a number of industry leaders gathered to hold a series of activities such as digital art forums and industry annual meetings to discuss the path of in-depth development of industrial integration and provide new ideas and directions for the future development trend of the industry.
II. Details of the 23rd Guangzhou International Professional Lighting and Audio Exhibition
- Exhibition Time and Venue: Held at Areas A, B, and D of the China Import and Export Fair Complex from May 27 to 30, 2025.
- Exhibition Scale: The exhibition covers an area of 210,000 square meters with 22 themed exhibition halls. The scale has broken through again, further consolidating its position as the world’s largest professional exhibition in the entertainment and professional sound, light and audio-visual industry.
- Host Units: Hosted by Messe Frankfurt (Hong Kong) Ltd. and Guangdong Kezhan International Exhibition Co., Ltd.
- Exhibition Participation: It gathered professional visitors from 127 countries and regions and 59 domestic and foreign professional buyer delegations, with the number reaching a new high in previous years; there were as many as 2,209 participating enterprises, fully reflecting the internationalization and industry appeal of the exhibition.
- Exhibit Range: It covers a wide range of diversified products in the entire industrial chain. Area A focuses on displaying communication and conference systems, multimedia system solutions, and professional audio equipment; Area B gathers many products related to professional lighting, stage machinery, immersive interaction, cultural tourism lighting, and digital light and shadow; the newly opened Area D is focused on being a centralized display area for KTV-related equipment and entertainment scene solutions; the newly launched Professional Audio Accessories Pavilion made its appearance in Hall 18.1 of Area D, meeting the segmented purchasing needs of different professional buyers.
- Exhibition Highlights:
- New Product Launches and Brand Debuts: Many leading enterprises in the industry such as Harman, Yamaha, Bose Professional, Se Audiotechnik, Haoyang Electronics, and Caiyi carried out new product launches and brand debuts, showing the latest achievements and future development trends of the professional sound, light and audio-visual industry. For example, Guangdong Night Sun Technology Group Co., Ltd. launched a number of new lighting products, including the much-watched beam lights, waterproof beam lights, and waterproof cutting lights, which have significantly improved in performance and function and can adapt to complex indoor and outdoor environments; Shenzhen EAW Sound & Light Technology Co., Ltd., together with Naostage, brought the world’s first automatic 3D tracking solution without beacons, opening up a new path for workers in the professional audio-visual field.
- Immersive Entertainment Experience: Multiple immersive entertainment experience check-in points were set up on site. Through cutting-edge performing arts technologies such as VR, XR, AI intelligent sound field, and holographic projection, trendy cultural creativity was implanted into entertainment consumption scenarios, and a series of immersive entertainment activities were launched, such as the Unicorn series activities, the “Peak Shock – The Return of Journey to the West” light and shadow show, and “Dream of the Old Summer Palace” scenes, attracting many visitors to stop and watch.
- Light and Shadow Performing Arts Industry Conference: For the first time, it joined hands with the Cultural and Tourism Night Tour Professional Committee of the All-China Federation of Tourism Chambers of Commerce to hold the “2025 Light and Shadow Performing Arts Industry Conference” to discuss how to leverage new momentum with the help of science and technology and inject new vitality into the sustainable development of the light and shadow performing arts industry.
- International Exchanges and Cooperation: Following the national “Belt and Road” initiative, it joined hands with the Yinchuan Stage Art Association to organize the “China – Arab States Stage Technicians Training Course”. Stage art technicians from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Morocco, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries visited the exhibition; in addition, a number of overseas purchasing groups from Russia, Argentina, Singapore, Brazil, Malaysia, Vietnam and other countries visited, promoting international industry exchanges and cooperation.
In general, both GETshow and the 23rd Guangzhou International Professional Lighting and Audio Exhibition held in Guangzhou in 2025 performed excellently in terms of scale, participating enterprises, product innovation, activity richness, and international influence, effectively promoting technical exchanges, trade cooperation and industrial development in the global audio and lighting industry.
