The 8th Linqing China Bearing, Spare Parts and Special Equipment Exhibition & Bearing Industry Summit Forum was held from April 8 to 10, 2023 in Linqing city, Shandong Province. The forum, themed "Leading Intelligent Manufacture, Driven by Innovation", attracted delegates from the China Bearing Industry Association and renowned enterprises of the bearing industry, as well as experts from research institutes to discuss and explore the new development path for the Chinese bearing industry. The bearing industry cluster of Linqing, known as "joints of industry", boasts the most complete and vibrant bearing industrial chain in China, with over 1,000 registered individual businesses and more than 100,000 practitioners producing products of over 5,000 models under 11 categories.

Zhou Yu, the council director of China Bearing Industry Association, praised the growth and rapid development of the bearing industry of Liaocheng with Linqing as the core. A batch of backbone bearing enterprises have grown quickly, and the Linqing bearing exhibition has been keeping growing in both scale and influence, making a prominent contribution for China's bearing industry to be bigger and stronger. At the forum, the first secondary node of identification and resolution for the Industrial Internet of domestic bearing industry was released, which will further promote the integrated development of bearing industry and information at a broader range, in greater depth and on a higher level.

The exhibition was attended by 628 enterprises, with an exhibition area of over 30,000 square meters. As renowned main engine manufacturers and purchasing agents and clients from all corners of China gathered in Linqing, the exhibition became a comprehensive industrial event integrating finished product bearing exhibition, spare parts at upstream and downstream, numerically controlled machinery tools, industrial robots and bearing digitization. The products of the bearing industry cluster of Linqing are exported to countries and regions including Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.