The Chinese market presents enormous opportunities for global medical innovation projects

          Guests jointly launched the Boao Forum for Asia Global Health Expo. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Zi Heng

Xinhua News Agency, Qingdao6month13Day (Reporters Su Wanming, Tian Xiaohang, Wen Jinghua) China5Gtechnology and"Internet+medical"aging and medical care integration, rehabilitation medicine, integration of Chinese and Western medicine innovation……10day to12day, held in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao, the first session of the Boao Forum for Asia Global Health Forum, in the eyes of many foreign medical institutions and professionals, the Chinese market is bringing unprecedented opportunities for global medical innovation projects to take root and flourish.

China recently issued the "Notice on Deepening Medical and Health System Reform2019Year's Key Tasks", which will organize the implementation of"Internet+medical and health"provincial demonstration zone construction, and upgrade and improve the remote medical network. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has also issued to China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Broadcasting4telecommunications operators5Gcommercial licenses, meaning large-scale5Gnetwork construction will be launched.

5GThe application of technology in medical innovation has become a hot topic at the first Health Forum.

The George Global Health Institute, headquartered in Sydney, Australia,2007established an office in Beijing at the beginning of the year,2012established a strategic partnership with Peking University Medical Department, and in2014established a mobile health innovation center to carry out health intervention services. Tian Maoyi, senior researcher at the George Global Health Institute (China), said that in many provinces of China, many people own more than one mobile device. Even in remote areas, the popularity of mobile devices is very high."Believe in5Gwhen it comes, the form of mobile health intervention will be more diverse, and the development will be more rapid."

   Guests from home and abroad listen to the chairman's speech at the opening ceremony of the first session of the Boao Forum for Asia Global Health Forum. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Zi Heng

AmericaMiraThe company was only founded three years ago and has offices in both the United States and China. Its medical devices can be used by individuals to detect their own hormone levels at home. Kang, co-founder and CEO of the company,·Silvia said that new digital technologies will change the way medical services are provided, including scale, standards and accessibility. In particular, the large population in rural areas of China and the very limited medical services provided by local clinics, new technologies can help doctors in remote mountainous areas to conduct telemedicine.

"How to age healthily"that is, healthy aging, has become another hot word at this forum.

"The silver hair wave"is sweeping across China. According to Peking Union Medical College, the China Association for Geriatric Health2019at the beginning of the year in Beijing jointly released the "Blue Book on Elderly Health: China Elderly Health Research Report(2018)shows that2000year to2018year, China60aged 60 and above increased from1.26100 million to2.49200 million, accounting for10.2%rose to17.9%。

"Currently, in East Asia, coping with aging has become an important issue."Fukuda Yasuo, Chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia Advisory Council and former Prime Minister of Japan, said that China and Japan working together to cope with aging will bring new business opportunities.

Peter Lass, professor at Graz Medical University, Austria,·In the past15years, the international community has not done enough to achieve healthy aging. He hopes that in the future, in areas such as China, regenerative medicine research can be done well to address the increasingly serious issue of aging.

        Participants visit the Boao Forum for Asia Global Health Expo. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Zi Heng

Todo Takao, Vice President of Human Security and Global Health, Japan International Cooperation Agency, is particularly concerned about the mental health of the elderly. He said that China has a huge elderly population, and care, care, medical treatment, and especially resolving the loneliness and suicidal tendencies of the elderly will increasingly become a rigid demand for the elderly, requiring society to provide more and more services.

The National Health Commission, the China Disabled Persons' Federation and other departments11revealed at the first session of the Boao Forum for Asia Global Health Forum that there are currently about850085 million disabled people in China, and more than4000200 million people with disabilities and semi-disabilities, all of whom need high-quality rehabilitation services.

Correspondingly, the development of new models of medical and elderly care integration and high-quality rehabilitation services in China has become a field favored by many foreign medical institutions.

11Day, Rehabilitation University held an unveiling ceremony in Qingdao, Shandong Province, which will integrate medicine, life sciences, humanities and other disciplines to become a new type of higher education institution based on research and led by rehabilitation applications. On the same day, New York University,RUSKRehabilitation Institute, Duke Medical, USA, and Qingdao Municipal Hospital signed agreements to jointly build the Qingdao Municipal Hospital"International Rehabilitation Institute"and"International General Practitioner Training Base"。

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been passed down in China for thousands of years, and now the pace of TCM going global is accelerating.2018Since [year], China has implemented a three-year pilot program for collaborative clinical research on major and difficult diseases using both Western and Chinese medicine approaches.

"We hope to cooperate with various organizations in China, especially those related to traditional Chinese medicine."Christopher·The Global Rehabilitation Alliance chairman, said that one of the alliance's projects aims to integrate TCM into Western medical rehabilitation programs. At the same time, the alliance is trying to cultivate more physicians capable of performing TCM treatments in Germany and other Western countries.