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Exhibition Review | Hengyi Culture Debuts at the 27th China Gifts Expo Shanghai

Time:07.24.2026

🎪 Exhibition Review | Hengyi Culture Debuts
at the 27th Shanghai Huazhan ✨

June 26–28, 2026 · Shanghai New International Expo Centre

From June 26 to 28, the 27th Shanghai International Gift, Creative Products, and Homeware Exhibition (Huazhan) concluded successfully at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.
As the annual benchmark event for the gift and creative industry in East China, this edition featured 80,000 sqm of exhibition space, gathering over 1,800 participating brands and attracting over 100,000 professional buyers, IP holders, gift channel partners, and brand operators for product selection and matchmaking. Hengyi Culture showcased its two-decade-deep full-chain customization capabilities for IP derivatives, leveraging concrete products and mature supply chain solutions to gain widespread recognition and collaboration intentions from industry peers.

1. Booth Highlights: Trendsetting Creative Products on Display, Hardcore Craftsmanship Shines

At this exhibition, we avoided vague concepts and let our tangible finished products speak for themselves, directly addressing market pain points in creative gifts, anime merchandise, and corporate custom giveaways.

The booth featured a core display of highly market-recognized full-category derivatives:

Anime Collector's Art Boards Multi-Layer Acrylic Standees Sand Mahjong Tiles Laser Tickets Hot Stamping Lenticular Cards Metal Badges Ita Bags Plush Toys

Among them, the premium acrylic collector's art boards became one of the most talked-about items at the event.

Leveraging overlapping processes such as 9-color high-precision micro-spray printing, CNC precision cutting, UV embossing, laser edging, and starry-sky lamination, the character hair gradients and scene light transitions were delicately natural, completely resolving common industry issues like print banding and color distortion. The solid craftsmanship of thickened cardstock and anti-oxidation lamination prompted many IP operators and pop toy wholesalers to stop, examine, and finalize sample requests on site.

Beyond anime merchandise, the exhibition also showcased commercial gift solutions including corporate business commemorative gift boxes, brand-customized cards, event commemorative badges, and IP-themed packaging boxes, covering three mainstream demands: young audience collectible consumption, corporate employee gifts, and brand marketing merchandise. This vividly demonstrated Hengyi Culture's comprehensive capability across materials and multi-process execution.

2. Core Competitiveness: Full Industry Chain Closed Loop, Eliminating Disconnection Between Design and Mass Production

Over the three exhibition days, the most frequently asked questions were:

"Can you consistently reproduce complex designs?"

"Can you quickly produce samples in small batches?"

"Can you deliver multiple categories in one stop?"

— And this is precisely the core strength Hengyi Culture has built over years of deep cultivation.

Unlike single-process factories that only produce one type of item, we have operations in two locations:

🏢 Shanghai
Design and Business Center
 
🏭 Dongguan
▸ Acrylic Factory
▸ Leather Factory
▸ Plush Factory
▸ Packaging Factory

Truly achieving a full-chain closed-loop service:

Creative Planning → Visual Design → Structural R&D → Rapid Prototyping → Mass Production → Quality Control → Packaging & Logistics
  • Designers and production line engineers collaborate upfront, preventing execution failures from the outset
  • Flexible production lines support small-batch rush orders—for comic convention exclusives, limited IP merchandise, and short-term brand event gifts, we compress delivery cycles, easing client concerns about tight deadlines

Material and Quality Control Details

Category Craft Detail
Collector-Grade Acrylic Uses high-purity cast acrylic sheets to prevent long-term yellowing
Paper Products Differentiates between gloss, matte, and shimmer laminations to suit various visual effects
Leather Ita Bags Pre-calculates badge placement structure and compatibility with durable transparent display windows

Every product balances aesthetics, durability, and collectible value, which is why we have consistently supplied top IPs like One Piece, Demon Slayer, and Pokémon for years.

3. On-Site Discussions: Gaining Industry Insights, Anchoring New Directions in Creative Gifts

This Huazhan exhibition clearly signaled two industry trends:

📡 Signal 1: IP-Focused, Personalized Custom Gifts Become the Growth Driver

Demand for traditional standardized gifts continues to shrink, while creative derivatives with unique visuals, collectible appeal, and added craft value—whether for C-end fan consumption or B-end corporate appreciation gifts—see significantly higher acceptance.

📡 Signal 2: Buyers Prioritize One-Stop Integration from Source Factories

They prefer a single supplier to handle entire sets of merchandise—cards, figurines, bags, gift boxes—reducing communication and quality control costs from multiple vendors.

Over three days of discussions, we engaged in depth with gift distributors, IP rights holders, e-commerce operations teams, and advertising agencies from across the country, delivering actionable complete solutions for several directions:

🏮 Guochao Creative Implementation   🌐 Cross-Border Anime Merchandise Compliance Production
 
🎁 Corporate Anniversary Commemorative Gift Sets   🎌 Convention Exclusive Limited Merchandise Development

Many clients reached sample and long-term supply collaboration agreements on the spot.

4. Exhibition Conclusion: Moving Forward, Continuously Deepening the Creative Customization Track

An exhibition is not only an industry exchange but also a review of capabilities and a market assessment.

The 27th Shanghai Huazhan has concluded successfully. Hengyi Culture has seen both the vast opportunities in the creative gift market and has reaffirmed its own direction:

No low-price homogenized products 🛑
Rooted in solid craftsmanship, stable supply chains, and full-category one-stop service

Dedicated to creating high-fidelity collector's merchandise for anime IPs,
while also offering creative, high-quality, and executable custom gift solutions for all types of enterprises and brands

Moving forward, we will continue to optimize:

🔧 Improving Flexible Production Efficiency 🎨 Upgrading Specialty Craft Applications
Welcome IP holders, gift wholesalers, and brand planning teams to connect anytime!
We offer the full process of free solution planning → physical sampling → batch customization,
working together to explore more possibilities in the creative gift market 🌟

Hengyi Culture · Two Decades of Dedication, Only Quality Creative Products That Can Be Realized

📅 June 26–28, 2026 · 📍 Shanghai New International Expo Centre

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