Guangzhou Silver Economy Investment Promotion Event 'Intelligence for Aging, Linking the Future' Successfully Held at Silver Chain Industrial Park

Spring tides surge, silver hair shines; wisdom gathers in Huangpu to compose a glorious chapter together. To implement the national strategy for developing the silver economy and accelerate the high-quality development of the silver economy in Guangzhou and Huangpu District, the Guangzhou Silver Economy Investment Promotion (Huangpu) and the 2nd Guangzhou Smart Health and Elderly Care (Age-Friendly) Equipment Innovation Design Competition were held on April 22 atJunheng Plaza (Silver Economy Chain Industrial Park)Grandly held. As the builder of a full-chain ecosystem for the silver economy, Silver Age Intelligence Valley leverages the High-Tech Zone Group’s 40 years of industrial heritage and an RMB 85 billion industrial scale, integrating industry agglomeration, scenario validation, model innovation, and standard setting. By consolidating all-factor resources across “policy–industry–scenarios–capital,” Silver Age Intelligence Valley is comprehensively showcasing full-scenario applications and practices in silver industry innovation, striving to establish itself as a leading domestic benchmark for the silver industry ecosystem.

Led by the government, supported by state-owned enterprises, and participated in by industry leaders, this event unveiled strategic plans and signed key projects focused on the full industrial chain layout of the silver economy. It demonstrated Guangzhou Huangpu’s strong momentum in building an innovation highland for the silver economy in the Greater Bay Area, injecting “Guangzhou Strength” and setting a “Huangpu Model” for the development of China’s silver economy. Li Rui, Party Group Member and Deputy Director of the Guangzhou Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, and He Yuhong, Party Group Member and Deputy District Mayor of the Huangpu District People’s Government, attended the event and delivered speeches. Nearly 200 representatives from business associations, elderly care institutions, research institutes, and key enterprises across the silver economy industrial chain in Guangzhou participated in the event.

(Delivered by Li Rui, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Guangzhou Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau)

(Address by He Yuhong, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy District Mayor of Huangpu District People's Government)

As a pioneering demonstration zone for the development of the silver economy in Guangzhou, Huangpu District has consistently pursued dual advancement and integrated development of elderly care services and the silver industry. In recent years, the district has continuously improved its policy framework, optimized its industrial ecosystem, and accelerated the aggregation of innovative momentum. It took the lead in introducing the nation’s first county-level special policy, the “Ten Measures for the Silver Economy.” To date, it has gathered over 600 high-quality enterprises in the silver economy sector, with an associated industrial scale exceeding RMB 60 billion, establishing an integrated full-chain development pattern encompassing R&D, manufacturing, exhibition, and application. Huangpu District ranks at the forefront of Guangzhou in key sectors such as smart health and elderly care, age-friendly equipment, and geriatric biopharmaceuticals. In the inaugural year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Huangpu District has proactively assumed responsibility and taken active measures to continuously enhance the quality and efficiency of elderly care services and foster the clustering and expansion of the silver economy, providing strong support for Guangzhou’s efforts to build an innovation hub for the silver economy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

In the presence of all attendees, the event hosted multiple major signing ceremonies, taking concrete actions to connect the entire “policy–industry–scenario–capital” chain and build a collaborative, win-win ecosystem for the silver economy.

The first round of signings focused on the strategic partnership of “Business District Partners” within the Silver Economy Chain Industrial Park. The Huangpu District Civil Affairs Bureau, Luogang Subdistrict, and Gaoxin Construction Group joined forces to open up diverse scenarios, including community elderly care stations, senior canteens, public spaces, and medical institutions.

Subsequently, the cooperation agreement for the joint development of the Silver Hair Chain Industrial Park and Product Selection Center was successfully signed. Gaoxin Construction Group, Yinling Zhigu (Guangzhou) Investment, and Yinfa Chain (Guangzhou) Digital Technology joined forces to accelerate and enhance the efficiency of industrial carrier construction, thereby solidifying the foundation for the development of the silver economy.

In addition, the event facilitated the simultaneous signing of strategic partnership agreements for the Guangzhou Senior Care Expo, cooperation agreements with brand exhibitors and featured exhibition zones of the Expo, and entry agreements for enterprises joining the Silver Hair Industry Chain Industrial Park and Selection Center. Dozens of entities participated, including business associations, authoritative media outlets, financial institutions, health and wellness groups, and technology companies. A batch of high-quality projects was centrally launched, injecting strong momentum into Huangpu’s silver economy.

This event featured the concentrated launch of six core projects, with the Guangzhou High-Tech Zone Group’s strategic planning for the silver economy sector highlighted as the top priority. This plan comprehensively outlines a development blueprint characterized by state-owned enterprise leadership, industrial empowerment, and ecological synergy. Zhou Chengjiu, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Guangzhou High-Tech Zone Investment Group Co., Ltd., introduced that the group was established in 1984 and has been deeply engaged in the biopharmaceutical and big health industries for nearly four decades. Leveraging nearly 5 million square meters of industrial space, a fund matrix exceeding RMB 20 billion, and full-chain service capabilities, the group is actively responding to national strategies and comprehensively laying out its presence in the new track of the silver economy. In the future, the group will focus on building a national-level highland for the silver economy industry. It will construct the Junheng Plaza Global Product Selection Center Headquarters and the Conghua Health and Wellness Park under the “Headquarters + Base” model, introducing cutting-edge projects such as smart elderly care, age-friendly renovations, and elderly care robots, thereby achieving coordinated development in R&D, exhibition, trading, and experience.

Meanwhile, the Group will refine the full-chain ecosystem of the silver economy, leveraging the synergistic advantages of fund investment and industrial investment promotion. It will focus on key sectors such as smart elderly care, rehabilitation assistive devices, health management, and anti-aging biotechnology, nurturing high-quality projects to achieve a full-cycle industrial closed loop encompassing “R&D – incubation – implementation – expansion.” Furthermore, the Group will comprehensively enhance its service capabilities in the silver industry by building a professional service network that covers all scenarios of health management and elderly care, through services including the research, development, and commercialization of wellness products, equipment leasing, pharmaceutical supply chain management, and drug distribution. In doing so, it will fulfill its responsibilities as a state-owned enterprise to drive the high-quality development of the silver economy.

(Delivered by Zhou Cheng, Party Secretary and Chairman of Guangzhou High-Tech Industrial Development Zone Investment Group Co., Ltd.)

Yinling Zhigu is a key strategic partner of Gaoxin Construction Group in the silver economy sector, based at the “Silver Industry Chain Industrial Park” in Guangzhou Junheng Plaza. Leveraging the High-Tech Zone Group’s 40-year heritage as a state-owned enterprise, its RMB 85 billion industrial scale, and comprehensive ecosystem empowerment, Yinling Zhigu stands on the shoulders of industry giants. Positioned as an “industrial ecosystem operator,” it transcends traditional space management to build a new model for China’s silver economy ecosystem by integrating industrial clustering, scenario validation, and business model innovation. The project features 200,000 square meters of premium Grade A commercial space with 4.5-meter ceiling heights, adjacent to two subway lines. It is surrounded by sci-tech innovation resources and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, supported by well-developed commercial, medical, and cultural-sports facilities. By establishing eight core segments—new retail, retirement clubs, senior training, industrial R&D headquarters, community life circles, silver creative industries, live-streaming spaces, and immersive experience hotels—it constructs a full-dimensional service closed loop. It innovates the “enclave headquarters” and “community life circle” models to realize a Huangpu internal circulation ecosystem characterized by “R&D and exhibition at the center, intelligent manufacturing and services in the periphery.” Furthermore, relying on five commercial closed loops (technology, market, service, factors, and operations) and diversified revenue streams, it achieves self-sustaining ecosystem growth. In line with its three-year strategic plan, Yinling Zhigu aims to become a core benchmark in Huangpu District, serving over 100,000 people across the entire region by 2027, and building a nationally leading collaborative platform for the silver industry by 2028. It will export the “Huangpu Standard” to lead the high-quality development of China’s silver economy.

During the same period, the event also released several important achievements:The 2nd Guangzhou Smart Health and Elderly Care (Age-Friendly) Equipment Innovation Design CompetitionOfficially launched, focusing on the intelligent elderly care robotics sector, gathering global innovation forces through “One Core Sector, Dual-Track Parallelism, Three Major Upgrades”;

(Speech by Li Zhongxu, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Huangpu District Civil Affairs Bureau, Guangzhou City)

The event also featured an exhibition of elderly care technology innovation enterprises, with more than 50 companies showcasing their latest innovations, including exoskeleton robots, AI companionship devices, age-friendly bathroom fixtures, and nutritional products for seniors. These exhibits covered diverse application scenarios such as rehabilitation nursing, smart technology, home aging adaptations, and healthy diets, fully demonstrating the new vitality of the silver economy. Meanwhile, the event introduced government consumption vouchers, corporate benefit packages, cultural experiences for “the elderly and the young,” and free access to all-ages pickleball, delivering tangible warmth to people’s livelihoods through practical measures.

A Spring Breeze Ushers in a New Journey: The Silver Economy Moves Toward the Future. Following the successful holding of the Guangzhou Silver Economy Investment Promotion (Huangpu) Event, Huangpu District will take this event as a new starting point to continuously promote the dual-wheel drive of “public welfare services + industry.” It will strengthen the development of core platforms such as the Silver Age Intelligence Valley and the Silver Hair Chain · Global Product Selection Center, continuously improve policies, optimize the industrial ecosystem, and enrich application scenarios. The district aims to cultivate a silver economy industrial cluster valued at hundreds of billions of yuan, promote the deep integration of elderly care services and the silver hair industry, strive to build an innovation highland for the silver economy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and contribute the “Huangpu Solution” and “Huangpu Strength” to the high-quality development of China’s silver economy.