Songbo Investment Backs ZhouRui Education to Advance Oral Healthcare Training in China

Currently, the educational resources available to dentists in China are uneven, which further exacerbates the imbalance in the distribution of dental healthcare resources, with a tilt toward major cities. Recently, Shuangbai Investment Group (hereinafter referred to as "Shuangbai") signed a cooperation agreement with ZhouRui Education Group (hereinafter referred to as "ZhouRui Education") to promote the popularization of specialized dental training and enhance the quality and coverage of dental healthcare services.

As like-minded partners in the field of dental vocational education, both parties aim to facilitate dentists’ access to professional educational and training resources and to enhance the standardization and normalization of their clinical skills. Their close collaboration in vocational education encompasses strategic investment, information technology infrastructure development, content creation, and operations.

Chen Guang (left), Partner at Songbo Investment Group

Signed an agreement with Zhou Rui, CEO of Zhourui Education (right)

In recent years, the demand for education and training among dental professionals has been growing steadily. Zhou Rui Education (www.zgxrdh.com) has been committed to providing professional dental knowledge services. Established in 2015, Zhou Rui Education uses translations of mainstream international academic works as its theoretical foundation and adopts a teaching model that combines online instruction with hands-on practice. It has developed a series of courses in areas such as adhesive restoration, aesthetic restoration, and teeth whitening. Currently, the platform has over 200,000 registered members, with more than 1.5 million annual visits to its online platform.

Overview of Lecturers at Zhourui Education

Dr. Zhou Rui, Founder and CEO of Zhouri Education, pursued his studies at Peking University School of Stomatology, in Bensheim, Germany, as well as at Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Loma Linda University, the University of Southern California, and Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Over a 15-year career in dental professional training, Dr. Zhou has been dedicated to exploring a classic, fundamental, and systematic approach to dental education tailored to grassroots dentists in China. Zhouri Education is committed to presenting foundational dental knowledge and basic clinical procedures in an accessible and easy-to-understand manner for young dentists. To date, Zhouri Education has conducted more than 500 offline training sessions and hands-on skill workshops, supporting and accompanying the professional growth of numerous grassroots dental practitioners.

Dr. Zhou Rui, Founder and CEO of Zhourui Education, stated:“Over years of exploration, Zhou Rui Education has carved out a unique path to help Chinese dentists strengthen their theoretical foundations and clinical skills. We are delighted to enter a new phase of development through an investment partnership with Songbo Investment Group, which is deeply rooted in the dental industry. With Songbo’s support, Zhou Rui Education will collaborate with more domestic and international academic institutions, attract leading dental technology experts and talented professionals committed to specialized dental training from around the world, and offer systematic, comprehensive professional courses.”

Chen Guang, Partner at Songbai Investment Group, stated:“Songbai is deeply committed to advancing primary dental care and the professional development of dentists in China. A key bottleneck we aim to address is efficiently reaching a broader base of dentists with foundational dental knowledge and skills training through internet-based and innovative dissemination methods. We have observed that Zhou Rui Education excels in balancing professional rigor with accessible instruction. For instance, it has developed an eight-hour course on adhesive techniques—widely used in dental treatment—that covers common clinical scenarios and technical challenges. Songbai greatly appreciates Dr. Zhou Rui’s passion and dedication to professionalism and training, and we look forward to collaborating with Zhou Rui Education to jointly promote the development of primary dental care in China.”

Songbai Investment is a long-term investor with extensive global holdings in the dental industry, committed to becoming a builder of the dental discipline and industry. It provides a stable, long-term development platform for dental professionals and enterprises, understands the vision of dental practitioners, and addresses pain points across the entire upstream, midstream, and downstream industrial chain, with a particular focus on technological R&D, medical education, and information technology.

In the field of technological R&D, Songbo boasts world-leading management teams and R&D capabilities in invisible orthodontics, dental implants, bone regeneration, imaging, intraoral scanning, prosthodontics, and oral prevention. Its controlled subsidiaries include Angelalign, Purgo Biologics, and Neoss Implants, among others. It holds equity stakes in companies such as Carestream Dental, Upcera, Putuo Medical, Pintec Technology, DeepCare, Lianyao Medical, uLab, and Orthobrain. Its strategic partners include Germany’s BEGO and South Korea’s Medit.

In the field of medical education, Songbo Holdings holds controlling and minority stakes in large dental healthcare institutions and chain clinics, introduces global educational resources, establishes well-equipped dental training and education centers, and delivers high-quality dental care services to patients through its network of dental institutions across China.

In the field of information technology, Songbai has built its own IT team to empower a vast network of dental distributors and healthcare service providers across China, thereby enhancing its service capabilities for both dentists and manufacturers. Through investments in Songbai Dental and Xinhua Guang Oral Care, Songbai is driving the digital transformation and industrial upgrading of the midstream dental sector.

Since its inception, Songbo Investment has empowered more than 50 companies across the entire dental industry chain, covering major regions including Asia, the Americas, and Europe.