GE Healthcare and Hainan Provincial People's Government Sign Strategic Cooperation Memorandum in New York

Recently, GE Healthcare and the People's Government of Hainan Province signed a strategic cooperation memorandum in New York, USA. Before the signing,H.E. Liu Xiaoming, Deputy Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the CPC and Governor of Hainan Province, Met with Mr. Zhang Yihao, Global Executive Vice President of GE Healthcare, President and CEO of GE Healthcare China, and reached a consensus on accelerating the implementation of bilateral cooperation, jointly promoting the development of Hainan Province's health care industry.

Consul General Huang Ping of the Chinese Consulate General in New York、Head of Relevant Units in Hainan Province、John Schaeffler, General Manager of Global Government Affairs at GE Healthcare、Xu Jun, Vice President of GE Healthcare Chinaand other attendees were present at the meeting and signing.

President Zhang Yihao thanked the Hainan Provincial People's Government for its extensive support and guarantees provided to GE Healthcare's development in Hainan. He stated that as the world's largest free trade port, Hainan has consistently remained at the forefront of China’s high-level opening up to the world. Not only does Hainan possess unique policy advantages and openness dividends, but it also has a solid foundation in the healthcare industry, strong innovation vitality, and rapid development momentum, offering vast opportunities for global enterprises to achieve win-win cooperation in Hainan.GE Healthcare, as a bridge for advancing international innovation cooperation, will actively integrate global and Chinese advantageous innovation resources to support Hainan Province in developing new medical productivity, achieving technological innovation, and realizing multi-point breakthroughs in industrial upgrading.。

As early as 2020, GE and Hainan Province reached a cooperation to actively build a comprehensive cooperation platform in the medical field, thereby launching GE Healthcare's development layout in Hainan Province.Since 2011, GE Healthcare has hosted the Boao Health Leadership Summit in Hainan every year. It has grown into one of the largest healthcare industry conferences in China, with nearly a thousand participants. The summit has influenced the implementation of projects and investments totaling nearly 20 billion yuan, with planned potential projects expected to reach 30 billion yuan, involving approximately 10 medical institutions., injecting new vitality into the local economy.

Based on the previous good cooperation, both parties adhere to the principle of "Complementary Advantages, Win-Win Cooperation, Industry Leadership, Innovation-Driven"The concept further deepens and expands diverse cooperation in the medical field, using new quality productivity to boost the high-quality development of Hainan's medical industry, accelerating Hainan's transition from a highland of institutional innovation to a highland of medical industry development."

On the same day,GE Healthcare President Zhang Yihao and his team visited Steve Orlins, President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, Huang Ping, Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in New York, and Ambassador Fu Cong, China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, respectively, in New York., Both parties reached a good intention to enhance cooperation.