On July 29, the National High-Performance Medical Device Innovation Ecological Summit and Major Project Launch Event (hereinafter referred to as the “Summit”) was held in Shenzhen. At the summit, a series of industrial innovation-oriented capital alliances, industrial project incubation bases, and major projects were announced, and a signing ceremony of clinical research and transformation base was held. Ten medical companies, including Winner Medical, held a signing ceremony for the establishment of a “joint laboratory”.
This summit was hosted by the National Innovation Center for High-Performance Medical Devices (hereinafter referred to as “National Innovation Center”), with the theme of “Innovation Leading, Industry Agglomeration”. Gan Yong, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and other well-known academicians and experts were invited to deliver keynote speeches. The summit was attended by Fan Jianping, President of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhao Yixin, President of China Medical Device Industry Association, and major leaders and guests from Shenzhen, focusing on the cultivation of high-end medical device industry, medical device innovation chain, industry chain and capital chain, and the enhancement of hard power of industry, academia and research. Besides, they discussed hot issues in the development of the industry, carried out cutting-edge academic exchanges, policy discussions, and promoted industrial cooperation.
At the summit, Winner Medical held a joint laboratory signing ceremony with Mindray, United Imaging, Lifetech, YHLO and other ten companies to enhance the capabilities of hard-core production, education and research, lead the industry with technological innovation, and build an ecosystem to create values, so as to help the National Innovation Center to become a top innovation platform leading industrial innovation and even the global high-performance medical device industry.
Li Jianquan, chairman of Winner Medical, delivered a speech as a representative of the contracted enterprises. He said that the first point for medical enterprises to survive and develop is always to improve product quality and create value for users with quality. Chinese companies of medical dressings have entered the global market with Winner Medical as the leader, and have become an irreplaceable force for medical dressings in the world. They have been innovating continuously, applying medical technology to large health consumption, and creating conditions for people’s better life. The Shenzhen Municipal Government leads the national trend with innovation and development. Against this background, he would like to thank the National Innovation Center for providing a platform for enterprises, and he also hoped that the entrepreneurs present here wound support each other and jointly promoted the healthy development of the medical ecology.
About the National High-performance Medical Device Innovation Ecological Summit
The summit is guided by the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission, Shenzhen Longhua District People’s Government, Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Innovation Center Co-hosted. The National Innovation Center is located in Longhua District, Shenzhen. It is positioned as a national manufacturing technology innovation service platform and was established in 2020. With the mission of “technological innovation and service industry”, the center will steadily promote the integration and expansion of the industrial chain, actively deepen the R&D chain and industrial chain vertically, and run through the clinical chain, application chain, and capital chain horizontally. It has initially formed an innovation ecosystem with convergence of elements, vertical integration and precise adaptation to the development of medical device industry, and gradually played the role of industrial hub and driver of national innovation platform. The summit hosted by National Innovation Center aims to bring together resources from industry, academia, research, medicine, capital, government and inspection to build an innovation ecological platform that runs through the innovation chain, industry chain and capital chain of high-end medical device industry and accelerate the development of high-end medical device industry in China.
