2012年6月20日至22日，經國家科技部批準，“第十六屆華南國際工業自動化展覽會”在深圳會展中心隆重舉行，值此展會開幕之際，我們謹向各界朋友表示衷心感謝。

    Being the essentially professional show in the industrial Automation field in ACPC, IA Shenzhen has been keeping up closely with the pace of the international automation, attracting the participation of in total over 5,000 domestic and overseas exhibitors and numerous profession visitors. This show has earned great support from professional fields of the automation and manufacturing engineering and relevant industries, providing the profession industry a great platform for communication and cooperation.

     作為亞太區工業自動化領域重要的專業展會，“華南自動化展”自1997年舉辦以來，一直緊跟國際自動化步伐，累計吸引了5000余家中外展商以及眾多業界人士的積極參與，并得到中國自動化和制造工程學術界，以及工業自動化相關行業的大力支持，為業界提供了一個良好的交流合作平臺。

     Being the essentially professional show in the industrial Automation field in ACPC, IA Shenzhen has been keeping up closely with the pace of the international automation, attracting the participation of in total over 5,000 domestic and overseas exhibitors and numerous profession visitors. This show has earned great support from professional fields of the automation and manufacturing engineering and relevantindustries, providing the profession industry a great platform for communication and cooperation.

     目前，中國正處于新一輪經濟轉型階段，產業升級、經濟結構優化、工業增長方式轉變的步伐明顯加快，節能減排、工業化與信息化“兩化融合”持續深入推進，傳統產業的技術制造方興未艾，新興產業正逐步崛起，同時，隨著“中國制造”走向世界，全球范圍內的激烈競爭迫使中國廠商亟需提升核心技術和核心競爭力，一股新的自動化浪潮正向中國工業界及制造領域興起。

     Nowadays, China is now in a new stage of economic restructure, the pace is becoming quicker for upgrading of industries, optimizing of the economic structure and transforming of the industrial mode of growth, with sustained promoting and advancing of the integration of industrialization and informationization and with the technology and manufacturing of traditional industries in the ascendant as new industries rising up gradually. Meanwhile, as the Made in China becomes a global trend, the intensive global competition forces Chinese manufacturers to improve core technology and core competence urgently. A big new wave of industrial automation is approaching to the industrial field and the manufacturing field.

     本屆展會，廣東會展推廣有限公司與漢諾威米蘭展覽（上海）有限公司共同作為承辦單位，增強了展會的專業性和國際化程度。本屆展會總規模達到28000平方米，比上屆增長20%以上，來自30多個國家和地區的500余家中外品牌，帶來眾多尖端的工業自動化技術和設備。值得一提的是，經過幾年的精心培育，“機器視覺”專區正成為“華南自動化展”的一大亮點和特色展區。另外，本屆展會繼續采用展會與論壇相結合的形式，在提供品牌推廣及商業價值的同時，輸以專業的論壇平臺，帶給展商產研結合的營銷模式，多場論壇及研討會，為各行業的先進制造奉獻解決之道。

     This year, both Guangdong Convention and Exhibition Promotion Ltd. and Hannover Milano Fairs Shanghai Ltd organize the show, which enhances the proficiency and internationality of the show itself. The area of this show is 28,000 sqm, 20% increase than the one of last section. More than 500 domestic and overseas brands, from over30 countries, bring a great deal of industrial automation technology and numerous industrial automation equipments. Especially to deserve to be mentioned, after meticulously cultivating, the area of Machine Vision has been a highlight and featured exhibition area for IA Shezhen. Additionally, following the form of combining exhibitions and forums, and at the same time providing brand-promoting and ommercevalues, offering professional forum platform, this show provides exhibitors marketing mode of integration of products and researches, and a great number of forums and seminars to contribute solutions for advanced manufacturing fields.

     先進制造，聚焦行業熱點，讓我們共同相聚六月，相聚華南自動化展。最后，祝大會圓滿成功，希望各位來賓和展商在本屆展會中廣交朋友、發展共贏！

     Developing advanced manufacturing and focusing on popular issues of industries, we shall gather in June, participate the IA Shenzhen. Last but not the least, we wishthe show a great success and we hope all distinguished guests and exhibitors could make new partnership and have a win-win development.