On December 14, 2018, the Seventh Council and Membership Meeting of China Robot Industry Alliance and the 2018 China Robot Industry Development Conference were held in Weifang, Shandong Province.

"China Robot Industry Development Congress" is an annual conference sponsored by China Robot Industry Alliance. It has been successfully held for six sessions since 2012. It has become an annual event and an important platform for people in the industry to sort out the achievements of China's Robot Industry's phased development, discuss the major events of China's industrial development, promote the development of China's industry, services, special robotics industry, and promote communication and exchanges.

China Robot Industry Development Conference is the most authoritative, international, professional and industrialized annual conference of China Robot Industry. China Robot Industry Alliance is composed of enterprises and institutions, colleges, research institutions, user units and other relevant institutions engaged in research and development, production and application services of the robotic industry. It has the most authoritative team of experts in the domestic robotic industry, including academicians, enterprise experts and industry experts.
It is reported that the conference will focus on the theme of "Integrating Development and Deepening Application", inviting industry leaders, experts and scholars, entrepreneurs, media and people from all walks of life concerned about the development of China's robotics industry to participate in the discussion of the changes and breakthroughs brought about by the rapid development of artificial intelligence, machine vision, human-computer cooperation and other technologies for robotics technology and industry, as well as countries in the robotics industry. Hot issues such as the road of internationalization, the development of key technologies and the change of market pattern, and the new trend of robot application demand under the current new consumption background.
At the same time, the conference will also focus on some outstanding issues of industry development. It is of great significance to gather industry wisdom, form industry consensus and promote sustained, healthy and rapid development of industry through various forms such as key issues workshops, key enterprises'chambers of Commerce and conference forums.