BMS has advanced into the national Top 20 in two separate categories at the 2026 HC360 Brand Grand Event — Top 20 Lighting (National) Brand and Top 20 Entertainment Systems (National) Brand — clearing the first stage of one of China's longest-running industry brand awards.
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The organisers' congratulatory letter, dated 21 September 2026, confirms that BMS was selected from the first-round field in both categories. The company now goes forward to the second stage of the competition, where the final Top 10 brands in each category will be decided.
Two categories, one shortlist
The awards place manufacturers into categories by what they actually supply, and BMS qualified in two of them at once:
| Category | What it covers | BMS |
|---|---|---|
| Top 20 Lighting (National) Brand | Manufacturers of professional stage and entertainment lighting fixtures | Selected |
| Top 20 Entertainment Systems (National) Brand | Suppliers of complete entertainment-venue systems — lighting, audio, video and control working as one | Selected |
Qualifying in both is the part worth noting. The lighting category is judged on fixtures; the entertainment systems category is judged on whether a supplier can carry a venue as a system — fixtures, control, signal distribution and the support behind them. A manufacturer normally appears in one list or the other, not both.
What "national brand" means
Both categories carry the designation 民族品牌 — national brand — which in Chinese industry awards sets the field apart from international and imported brands. The distinction is about where the product is developed and built: the brand, the tooling, the electronics and the production line are Chinese-owned and Chinese-based, rather than a foreign brand manufactured or distributed locally.
For buyers this is not a marketing label so much as a structural fact. A national brand is judged on its own supply chain. Spare parts, firmware, service documentation and engineering support all sit with the company that answered the award jury — not with an overseas head office.
How the shortlist was decided
The competition runs in two stages. The first stage has closed; the second is still open.
| Stage | How brands are scored | Status |
|---|---|---|
| First stage | Shortlisting by the organisers' review of participating brands | Closed — BMS advanced to the Top 20 |
| Second stage | Combined score from online short-video voting, an expert panel, top-ten provincial systems integrators, top-ten provincial production and rental companies, and votes from participating companies | In progress — the final Top 10 will be announced |
The second-stage jury is the reason this award is watched in China. Integrators and rental companies are the people who install the fixtures, tour with them and live with the warranty — their votes are weighted alongside the expert panel's. A brand cannot reach this stage on advertising alone.
The organisers' letter explains that the second-stage score is a combined result — online short-video voting, expert review, top-ten provincial integrators, top-ten provincial production companies and votes from participating companies — from which the final Top 10 brands are decided.
The congratulatory letter
The letter from the HC360 Brand Grand Event Organising Committee, dated 21 September 2026, reads in full:
「20强恭贺函」—— 尊敬的参评企业：感谢贵司参与"美艺杯·2026年声光视讯智联产业大会暨第22届慧聪品牌盛会"，在第一阶段的评选中，贵司不懈努力，以超强实力成功晋级20强。品牌评选活动热度持续攀升，通过媒体各大平台联动传播，品牌力量愈加强劲，社会影响力进一步扩大。第二阶段的角逐将由线上的短视频投票+专家评审+省级十强工程商、省级十强演出商+参评企业投票综合打分，诞生最终的十佳品牌。再次恭喜贵司成功晋级美艺杯·2026年度声光视讯行业十佳品牌评选20强，期待贵司在接下来的评选中越战越勇，再启新篇。—— 慧聪网品牌盛会组委会，2026年9月21日
The event itself is organised by HC360 Audio & Lighting Network, with HC360 LED Screen Network, HC360 Security Network and HC360 Education Network as co-organisers. Meiyi Stage holds the exclusive title sponsorship.
Where BMS sits on the list
The published Top 20 Entertainment Systems (National) list is ordered alphabetically by brand name and mixes established audio-visual system houses with lighting manufacturers. BMS appears alongside nineteen other brands drawn from across the Chinese entertainment technology sector.
The company enters the second stage on the same footing as the rest of the shortlist. No brand carries a score forward from the first stage — the Top 10 is decided entirely by the second-stage vote.
What this means for our customers
Awards are not products, and a shortlist does not change a luminaire's beam angle. But there is a practical reason this one is worth telling overseas buyers about.
The juries here are domestic. The integrators and rental companies voting in the second stage are the ones wiring venues in cities across China — a market that installs stage lighting at a volume and turnover no other region matches. When those companies rate a manufacturer, they are rating the things that decide whether a project succeeds two years later: whether the fixture survives a touring schedule, whether a spare part arrives in days, whether the control protocol documentation is accurate, whether anyone answers the phone in year three.
That feedback loop is why the list matters to buyers outside China. The engineering team, the production line and the ageing test bay behind every BMS fixture exported to Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Southeast Asia are the same ones behind the fixtures that earned this shortlist place. A brand that holds its position in its home market — the most competitive and fastest-moving lighting market there is — is a brand under continuous pressure to keep its quality and its service standards where they need to be.
What happens next
The second stage of the vote is open now. The final Top 10 in each category will be announced by the organising committee at the close of the 2026 award cycle.
We would like to thank the HC360 Brand Grand Event Organising Committee, the expert panel, and every integrator, production company and industry partner who put BMS forward. Twenty-six years in this industry is built on that kind of trust, and it is not taken for granted.
We are proud to represent Chinese manufacturing on this list — and we will keep building the fixtures and the support that put us there.
Congratulations to every brand on the list — and to the integrators, production companies and industry partners who put BMS forward. If you are planning a venue or refreshing a rig, send us your drawings and intended use and we will come back with a configuration and a quote.