China University Competition 2026

3,000 students build the future – with fischertechnik

China's Mega Tinkerer Show!

While Germany is still debating digitalization, China is already building the industry of tomorrow. At the country's largest university competition for mechanical engineering and innovation, around 3,000 students and professors from all over China recently competed – and fischertechnik is right in the middle of it.

China's Young Engineers on a Future Path

At the 12th National Competition for Mechanical Innovation and Design in Qingdao, 755 teams from 246 universities competed for the best future ideas. More participants and projects than ever before! Under the motto "Skill, Intelligence, and a Better Life," the young engineers developed intelligent machines for fish processing, automatic systems for cleaning and packaging vegetables, as well as bionic high-performance butterflies. Many projects already worked with AI control, automation, and state-of-the-art robotics technology.

75 experts evaluated the works and examined which ideas have the potential to make China's industry and agriculture more efficient and modern in the future.

Particularly remarkable: China has been deliberately focusing for years on practical technical education and learning systems from Germany. Our fischertechnik learning concepts are considered an important component there to impart so-called "Future Skills" – that is, skills in robotics, artificial intelligence, automation, programming, and digital thinking.

With our sets, young people learn how sensors, controls, algorithms, and automation work. At the same time, teamwork, problem-solving, and technical thinking are trained – exactly the skills that are considered key competencies of the future worldwide.

The mega competition in Qingdao therefore shows above all one thing: China is serious about the race for the technologies of the future – and has long been relying on know-how "Made in Germany".