From Liaoning's 'First Meeting of the Lunar New Year' to the 'Triple Upgrading' of the Elderly Care Industry
Fresh on the heels of the Spring Festival, Liaoning Province sent a strong signal of “rising to meet challenges” in addressing industrial and developmental issues through a promotion meeting styled as a “problem-solving” session for revitalization and development. As “problem-oriented thinking” becomes the essence of provincial work, as “project-based logic” serves as the core driver for the long-term development of industries, and as a “practical implementation orientation” becomes the benchmark for delivering tangible benefits to people’s livelihoods—these new approaches not only pertain to hard indicators of industry and economy but also quietly paint a heartwarming picture of public well-being.
In this comprehensive strategic plan for revitalization, How can the elderly care industry rapidly upgrade against the backdrop of “intelligent transformation and digital conversion”?This is not only a matter of public well-being, but also represents the challenges and opportunities Liaoning faces in confronting a deeply aging society, marking a critical battle in the transition from old to new growth drivers.
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“Problem-Solving” Upgrade: The Path to Breakthrough in the Elderly Care Industry
The strong signal sent by the “First Meeting of the Lunar New Year” is that digitalization empowers the real economy. For Liaoning, which has a large elderly population, traditional institutional and community-based elder care, constrained by physical space and human resources, can no longer meet the growing demand for personalized, high-quality, and enjoyable aging services. To do a good job in elder care, it is essential to break away from conventional approaches and make “identifying real problems and genuinely solving them” the core focus of our work.
Against this backdrop, Neusoft Ruixin Health Technology is promoting “One“Two Centers on One Platform” Smart Health and Elderly Care Model,Centered on the city-level smart health and elderly care platform, we have established a training center for healthcare professionals and an educational center for the elderly. Our mission is singular:Leverage digitalization to integrate resources across healthcare, elderly care, and education, thereby building a smart health and wellness service system that covers the entire life cycle.This also aligns with the concrete implementation of the “Digital Liaoning” strategy in the field of public welfare.
In Shenyang and Dalian, this new vision for elderly care has already found a tangible foothold. Created by Neusoft Ruixin Health Technology“Shengqing Wellness” and “Dalian Smart Wellness”Platforms, serving as the “new infrastructure” for smart urban health and elderly care services, are quietly transforming the lives of older adults.Leveraging “AI + Big Data” technology, the platform integrates diverse scenario-based needs—including finding hospital beds, accessing services, enrolling in courses, arranging travel, checking policies, and claiming subsidies—into a unified solution., tasks that once required running around and making inquiries can now be resolved through a one-stop service on mobile phones. By leveraging digital tools to break down information barriers between supply and demand, these platforms enable every senior citizen to make informed choices and arrange services independently according to their individual needs. This shift from “passive waiting” to “active selection” for the elderly precisely addresses the core pain points faced by countless families in elder care.
Another major pain point in the upgrading of the elderly care industry is talent. Single-skilled elderly care workers can no longer meet the demand; what society needs are multi-disciplinary professionals proficient in health management, digital technology, and psychological support. The “Health and Elderly Care Talent Training Center” established by Neusoft Ruixin Health Technology addresses the critical questions of “who will provide care” and “how to deliver care.” By implementing a standardized training system, it continuously supplies the elderly care sector with nursing professionals and management backbones equipped with specialized skills. This initiative aligns precisely with Liaoning Province’s directive to “promote the deep integration of education chains and industrial chains.” Through lifelong education and vocational skills training, it provides sustained support to the industry, fostering a positive cycle of “talent development–industrial upgrading–job absorption.”
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“Project” Upgrade: Explorations by Health Tech Enterprises
“The First Meeting of the New Year” demonstrates that the understanding of projects has gone beyond mere bricks and mortar, placing greater emphasis on platform-type projects capable of “generating vitality” for industrial upgrading and “building momentum” for long-term development. The meeting highlighted the transition between “new and old” and the agglomeration of “chains and clusters”—concepts that carry particular weight when applied to the elderly care industry.
What Are the “Chronic Ailments” of the Traditional Elderly Care Industry?Information silos, limited scenarios, and services awaiting improvement.Where, then, is the “new path”?Digitalization, Platformization, Ecosystemization.Amid the grand narrative of Liaoning’s revitalization, enterprises, as the primary drivers of innovation, are exploring directions that resonate strongly with the core spirit of the conference. The “One Platform, Two Centers” project explored and implemented by Neusoft Ruixin Health Technology provides a concrete model for the upgrading of the traditional elderly care industry through its strategic layout logic.
Traditional elderly care has often focused on single scenarios (such as nursing homes), whereas modern health and wellness initiatives require integrating the entire continuum across hospitals, institutions, communities, and households. City-level smart health and wellness platforms achieve multi-terminal coordination, encompassing user-facing, merchant-facing, institution-facing, and government-facing interfaces, as well as AI-enabled home terminals and community service terminals. These platforms connect governmental regulation and decision-making with institutional operations and capacity building, and, more importantly, facilitate service delivery and accessibility for the elderly population. This approach aligns seamlessly with Liaoning Province’s promotion of “industrial cluster” development, leveraging projects to drive industrial synergy. Through a unified platform, nursing institutions, community services, and medical resources are interconnected, ensuring that the “Six Assistance” services—meal assistance, bathing assistance, cleaning assistance, medical assistance, mobility assistance, and emergency assistance—are safely delivered to seniors, providing reliable and reassuring support.
Beyond promoting industrial synergy, project exploration for industrial upgrading must also address the profound societal shift from “elderly care” to “enjoying old age.”With physical health secured, spiritual fulfillment has become central to enhancing the quality of life for older adults. Neusoft Ruixin Health Technology has integrated lifelong education into its health and elderly care services by establishing an “Elderly Education Center,” enabling active seniors to continue engaging with society and realizing their self-worth through online and offline learning and group activities. This “healthcare + education” model not only taps into Liaoning’s rich cultural and educational heritage but also transforms the concept of active aging into an accessible part of daily life for older adults.
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“Practical Action” Upgraded: The Warmth of People’s Livelihood Reflected in Digital Metrics
The 20 livelihood projects listed by the Liaoning Provincial Government this year have translated the commitment to “practical action” into concrete figures: continuing to develop meal assistance services for the elderly, installing smart security systems in elderly care institutions, upgrading and improving more than 20 public elderly care facilities, adding and renovating 2,000 beds, establishing 80 national demonstration communities that are age-friendly, improving the operating conditions of 50 universities for the elderly, and ensuring that all public general hospitals at Level II and above across the province establish geriatrics departments.
These figures represent the government’s commitment to its citizens and serve as a strategic direction for corporate efforts. This year, Neusoft Ruixin Health Technology’s “One Platform, Two Centers” initiative will continue to be implemented in cities such as Huludao, Benxi, and Panjin, further integrating into Liaoning Province’s landscape of livelihood-focused initiatives. Whether by leveraging the platform to establish a new paradigm for elderly care services, utilizing senior education centers to meet the spiritual needs of “active seniors,” or employing talent training centers to bolster industry capacity, these efforts demonstrate a practical approach to addressing public welfare priorities in the inaugural year of the 15th Five-Year Plan.
The Opening Sets the Tone for the Whole; The Start Determines the Future Trajectory. The clear and resolute signal sent by Liaoning’s “First Meeting of the New Year” is that revitalization is not empty talk, but rather a process of taking root downward and growing upward through the resolution of one concrete issue after another.
Elderly care is the most heartwarming aspect of this endeavor. What we witness is not merely the iteration of technology, but a shared commitment to responsibility among the government, enterprises, and society at large. The exploration by Neusoft Ruixin Health Technology serves as a footnote in this grand narrative—when corporate innovation becomes ingrained in local development, and when platform power channels countless streams of social warmth, springtime in Liaoning resonates not only with the hearthside bustle of myriad households but also with the vigorous growth of the silver economy.