On October 31, the 2026 China Automation Congress, hosted by the Chinese Association of Automation, opened in Beijing, bringing together representatives from academia and industry at home and abroad to explore frontier directions in automation and intelligent technology. The congress ran 65 parallel sessions concurrently, covering embodied intelligence, world models, large-model multi-agent systems, AI empowerment and other directions, and invited experts from universities, research institutes and enterprises to share their latest research findings.