Through the use of multimedia, simulated environments and human-computer interaction, the exhibitors have created an experience for visitors that highlights the "green and smart" lifestyle.

Most of the high-tech products on display are to be used to raise living standards by improving the environment, developing alternative energy, reducing air and water pollution, and more effectively treating waste.

These innovations can also improve the efficiency of urban management and promote balanced socioeconomic development, said officials from the Zhongguancun administrative committee.

The expo provides opportunities for Zhongguancun to promote its leading companies and display a number of China's domestically developed brands.

It also serves as a means to demonstrate the ways Zhongguancun has revolutionized its management system and improved its business environment to attract emerging industries in the years that have passed since it was approved to be a national independent innovation demonstration zone by the central government in 2009.