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A new kind of traveller is showing up. They visit China not just to see its tourist destinations but to experience its technology. At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing from Aug 19-23, Xinhua met such visitors from Spain, Slovakia and the Netherlands.

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00:10Capturism is blooming. Nowadays China is becoming the go-to destination. Today I'm here at the
00:162026 World Robot Conference surrounded by visitors from all over the world. China is in next level.
00:23All the possibilities are endless, but if you take a couple of years, the technology must be even further.
00:31Just come and see!
00:32So why are they all coming here? What did they find and what do they want to take home?
00:37A family business trip. Here there's like the best technology in the world, in my opinion.
00:43I am Josep Montal. I came with my business team, which is my father, my brother-in-law,
00:52and my little brother. And we basically have a family business in Spain, in Barcelona.
00:57And what we do is we import machinery to Spain. We work in the sheet metal field,
01:03and our customers ask us for humanoid robots. Now we've seen that the real technology is here in China.
01:12So that's why we came in China to start a business with the Chinese market.
01:18A few years ago, foreign visitors come to China for the Great Wall and the Pandas.
01:23Now more and more of them are coming for something else, the future.
01:28And here at this conference, that future is made of robots and AI.
01:46So how do you describe this conference?
01:50It's very impressive. It's really, really big. I have never seen anything like this before.
01:55We could have like 10% of what you have here, back home. We would be so impressed. Like, really.
02:02I am taking videos, sending them back home, and they are like, wow.
02:06It's the first time in China?
02:08I was here last year for studying Chinese language, and this is the second time I am here.
02:14Why do you want to take your family here and to see the robot conference?
02:20Because they are very interested in technologies and stuff like that, so they found this exhibition.
02:27So they were like, yeah, you have to take us. So we are here.
02:31So you are all robotic fans?
02:33Yes.
02:34We've only been here for a couple of hours, but it's very, very big. We already saw some nice things.
02:40So what's the most impressive things here?
02:43The most impressive?
02:46I think the humanoids I saw, the big robots we saw, with all the strength and the power it has.
02:56And also the robots that look like real persons, really with their eyes and their blinking.
03:03Three visitors, three countries, but one destination.
03:06What's drawing them to Beijing isn't just a show, the future is just happening here.
03:12In 2026, tech tourism is becoming a new highlight of inbound travel to China.
03:18Beijing hosted the World Robot Conference.
03:20For technology lovers, it's a playground.
03:23For business travelers, it's a zone-making hub.
03:26And the China travel list is getting richer.
03:28Beyond the Great Wall and the Pandas, there is a future.
03:36In 15, I have been naïve.
03:41Um right after the pandemic, so we have asthak Vajara, in Afghanistan.
03:42Explosive킹.
03:42And I find a commercial for there.
03:42To be continued…
03:43There are some places.
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