Lianren Healthcare Big Data Technology Co., Ltd., the 'National Team' of Healthcare Big Data, Officially Unveiled in Shanghai

VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) has learned that on April 8, the operational headquarters of LIANREN Digital Health (hereinafter referred to as “LIANREN Digital Health”), a company established under the deployment of the National Health Commission and led by China Mobile, was officially unveiled and commenced operations on Zhangjiang AI Island in Shanghai. Jin Xiaotao, former Deputy Director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission and current President of the Chinese Society for Health Informatics and Medical Big Data; Yang Jie, Chairman and Party Secretary of China Mobile Communications Group; Weng Zuliang, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the Pudong New Area District Committee; Mao Qunan, Director of the Department of Planning, Development, and Informatization of the National Health Commission; and heads of relevant organizations attended the unveiling ceremony.

Unveiling Ceremony

LIANREN Digital Health is China’s first health and medical big data industrial group characterized by “lead investment from a central state-owned enterprise, joint participation by local governments, financial institutions, and healthcare IT companies, with state-owned capital as the main body and market-oriented mechanisms.” Spearheaded by China Mobile, the company was jointly established by seven entities, including Pacific Insurance, Jinan International Medical Center Industrial Development Co., Ltd., and Pudong Investment Holdings Sci-Tech Innovation Fund. With a paid-in registered capital of RMB 2 billion, it is rightly regarded as the “national team” in the field of health and medical big data.

Yang Jie, Chairman and Party Secretary of China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.

As a member of the “national team,” LIANREN Digital Health boasts strong technological foundations, data resources, and capital advantages. Yang Jie, Chairman of China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd., stated that China Mobile has a massive user base, while relevant ministries and commissions, including the National Health Commission, have introduced a series of policies to fully leverage the role of “Internet + Healthcare.” These initiatives have created rare opportunities for accelerating the development and application of medical big data. The establishment of LIANREN Digital Health in Shanghai represents an important exploration by China Mobile to deeply implement its “5G+” plan, accelerate technological integration and industrial convergence, continuously cultivate key vertical sectors and general scenarios, and promote innovation in 5G applications within the healthcare industry. It is also a significant practice in implementing the Healthy China strategy, promoting the widespread adoption of big data in the healthcare sector, and enhancing people’s livelihoods. LIANREN Digital Health will focus on key areas such as healthcare big data and “Internet + Healthcare,” incubating and developing star products that meet the highest international standards, represent the highest industry levels, and utilize the most advanced industrial technologies, thereby creating a new industrial ecosystem based on co-creation and win-win cooperation.

Jin Xiaotao, President of the Chinese Society for Health Information and Medical Big Data

Jin Xiaotao, President of the Chinese Society for Health Information and Big Data in Healthcare, stated that it is hoped that, in accordance with the decision-making and strategic deployments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, and under the unified planning and promotion of the National Health Commission, numerous health and healthcare enterprises and institutions—including LIANREN Digital Health and China Mobile—will join hands. Guided firmly by General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions, prioritizing the life and health of the people as their primary mission, leveraging national pilot programs as key initiatives, adopting a demand-oriented approach, integrating the entire industry chain encompassing the production, supply, consumption, and services of health products, driving progress through technological innovation and application development, led by enterprises and social forces, and supported by new digital models and public service platforms, they aim to enhance the people’s sense of gain, inject new momentum into the development of the health sector, and strengthen the growth drivers of the industrial economy, digital economy, and bioeconomy. Through concerted efforts, they strive to make their due contributions to the construction of a Healthy China and to the development of the national economy, society, and public livelihood.

Mao Qun’an, Director of the Department of Planning, Development and Informatization, National Health Commission

Mao Qun’an, Director of the Department of Planning, Development and Informatization of the National Health Commission, stated that since the State Council issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting and Standardizing the Application and Development of Health and Medical Big Data, a development pattern for health and medical big data applications has initially taken shape, characterized by government leadership, multi-party participation, collaborative innovation, and co-construction and sharing. LIANREN Digital Health has fully integrated the strengths of its founding entities, with business areas covering “health and medical big data,” “internet-based healthcare,” and “health and medical industrial parks.” By leveraging the unique advantages of health and medical big data, it provides diverse services including public health, precision medicine, and health management, representing an innovative endeavor. It is hoped that LIANREN Digital Health will promote coordinated development among industry, academia, research, and application in its future work, thereby creating greater health and well-being for the people of China.

Guan Xiaojun, Deputy District Mayor of Pudong New Area, Shanghai

Mr. Guan Xiaojun, Deputy District Mayor of Pudong New Area in Shanghai, stated that after more than two decades of development, Pudong New Area—particularly Zhangjiang Science City—has gradually become a vital source of new academic ideas, scientific discoveries, technological inventions, and industrial directions in the healthcare sector. With its rich accumulation of talent, technology, and industrial resources, it has emerged as an internationally renowned hub for biomedical innovation. The introduction of LIANREN Digital Health’s operational headquarters is a key project signed by Zhangjiang Science City and serves as a significant milestone in the development of Pudong’s “AI + Healthcare” industry. It will effectively promote the deep integration of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data with the healthcare industry, standing as a benchmark case for “central-local collaboration.”

Dai Zhong, Chairman of LIANREN Digital Health

According to Dai Zhong, Chairman of LIANREN Digital Health (LIANREN Digital Health Medical Big Data Technology Co., Ltd.), the company’s business primarily covers three major sectors: “Healthcare Big Data,” “Internet Healthcare,” and “Healthcare Industrial Parks.” By building national-level healthcare big data infrastructure and operating data platforms and applications through market-oriented mechanisms, LIANREN Digital Health provides a variety of digital healthcare services, including public health, insurance innovation, precision medicine, internet hospitals, pharmaceutical R&D, health management, and medical education.

The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated and accelerated the development of internet-based healthcare. During the outbreak, China Mobile actively explored and promoted innovative applications of 5G, big data, and other technologies in the medical field. It promptly established telemedicine systems connecting the Chinese PLA General Hospital with frontline anti-epidemic hospitals such as Huoshenshan and Leishenshan, facilitated the construction and operation of a national-level remote medical collaboration platform, and deployed “Smart Healthcare Integration” solutions in more than 5,300 medical institutions across China. By strengthening the application of big data in epidemic monitoring, virus source tracing, and contact tracking, China Mobile provided robust support for science-based epidemic prevention and control efforts.

Not long ago, the central government proposed the “New Infrastructure” initiative, under which a new round of information technology revolution—represented by 5G, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and artificial intelligence—will give rise to new formats and models in healthcare services. The establishment of LIANREN Digital Health will further leverage China Mobile’s existing advantages in smart healthcare. In the future, the company will integrate industry resources and focus on “5G + Healthcare,” working extensively with national-level platforms, authoritative medical institutions—especially those in Shanghai—and industrial partners to jointly explore and promote the formation of new models and formats in healthcare services.