The APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Business Forum will be held in Shenzhen in 2026.

According to "Shenzhen News", on June 24, 2026, the APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Business Forum was held in Luohu, Shenzhen. This forum was co-organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Development Promotion Center, the China Small and Medium-sized Enterprises International Cooperation Association, and the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government, with the theme of "Smart Empowerment, Open Innovation, Win-Win Cooperation". The forum included a main forum, three parallel forums, and three industry researches, as well as a high-quality small and medium-sized enterprise product exhibition area, bringing together representatives from APEC member economies, academicians, leading enterprises to explore new paths for digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region, to build a new ecology of regional industrial open cooperation, and to share new opportunities for integrated development in the global value chain.