Greater Bay Area Frontier Medical Technology Summit to Be Held in Zhuhai: Building a Golden Era Together
In the early winter of the Year of the Pig, Zhuhai, a port city located in the southeastern corner of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, remained as busy as ever.
On February 18, 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In Section II, “Cultivating and Strengthening Strategic Emerging Industries,” under the goal of building a modern industrial system with international competitiveness, it specifically highlights the joint creation of strategic emerging industry clusters with complete supply chains, strong radiating and driving capabilities, and international competitiveness, thereby enhancing new drivers of economic growth. Over the next decade, the Greater Bay Area will become a new engine and strategic focus of China’s economy.
This winter, renowned economists, overseas political dignitaries, heads of global industry associations comprising domestic and international entrepreneurs, regulators, and startup founders will gather here for the first time to jointly explore how cutting-edge technologies will leverage the impending golden age of medical innovation against the backdrop of globalization.
On November 15, 2019, the Greater Bay Area Medical Technology Summit, hosted by Gaoda Tongdao Investment Holdings and organized by VCBeat, will be held at The St. Regis Zhuhai. Under the theme “Empowering the Healthcare Industry with Cutting-Edge Technology to Co-create the Golden Age of the Greater Bay Area,” this summit aims to promote the empowerment of healthcare development through emerging frontier technologies, actively build an international platform for exchange and cooperation in the medical technology sector, and establish an international hub for dialogue among industry, academia, and enterprises. Meanwhile, the summit will launch the first series of peak forums in the Greater Bay Area dedicated to fostering dialogue between global frontier medical technologies and investment.
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Confirmed guests include Long Yongtu, China’s Chief Negotiator for WTO Accession, former Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia, and former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation; Zhao Zilin, Chairman of the China Association of Medical Equipment and former Director of the Department of Planning and Finance under the former Ministry of Health; Liao Hongen, Tenured Professor at Tsinghua University and expert in minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment and 3D imaging; Lu Qingjun, Director of the Office of the National Telemedicine and Internet Medicine Center; and Robert Zurawin, President of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), among others.
“The most important driving force behind economic globalization is not market forces, nor administrative power, and certainly not state power; the primary impetus for economic globalization is the advancement of science and technology. We continue to believe in the power of science and technology.”
——Long Yongtu
Mr. Long Yongtu is a renowned economist in China. As the chief negotiator for China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), he has exerted global influence in the fields of trade and globalization. In 1994, Bai Yansong, a celebrated CCTV host, documented a scene from the WTO accession negotiations held at the United Nations Office in Geneva: whenever Mr. Long rose to speak at the conference, the initially sparsely attended hall would immediately fill to capacity.
Mr. Long Yongtu has paid close attention to the driving role of technological innovation in the real economy. He has been committed to empowering China’s real manufacturing sector with technology, connecting it with the global market, thereby enhancing competitiveness and supply chain efficiency, and expanding business operations worldwide.
The Society of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeons (SLS) is the largest society for laparoscopic/minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in North America and globally, with over 6,000 active members worldwide. SLS aims to provide an open platform for physicians and other professionals interested in minimally invasive surgical therapies, facilitating the effective exchange of ideas, techniques, and experiences among practitioners of laparoscopic, endoscopic, and minimally invasive surgery. It is committed to continuously advancing the practice of laparoscopic surgery and improving patient care through education, training, and information dissemination.
In 2006, the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital (301 Hospital) introduced its first surgical robot. The da Vinci Surgical System, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, revolutionized traditional surgical paradigms by allowing surgeons to step away from the operating table and perform entire procedures by controlling robotic arms from a console. After more than a decade of development, over 40 hospitals in China are now equipped with 57 da Vinci surgical robots, which have collectively performed nearly 30,000 surgeries.
During the High-Level Forum, attendees will present insightful research on hot topics in the healthcare sector, including medical robotics, AI-powered healthcare, new drug R&D, and consumer healthcare. Multiple significant cooperation agreements will also be signed concurrently.
As a key pole in the Greater Bay Area, Zhuhai City has seen its Jinwan District emerge as a bridge connecting Zhuhai with the world. Gaoda Tongdao is committed to supporting local development by leveraging the unique advantages of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, integrating global innovative resources in technology and healthcare, improving institutional mechanisms for innovation cooperation, optimizing cross-regional collaborative innovation models, and building an internationalized, open regional innovation system. By continuously enhancing the level and efficiency of scientific and technological achievement transformation, we aim to accelerate the formation of an economic system and development model driven primarily by innovation, thereby establishing an international center for technological and medical innovation.
The forum provided attendees with an in-depth understanding of the local government’s industrial development plans and policies, while offering a platform to jointly explore opportunities in the Greater Bay Area alongside national-level research institutions, industry-leading enterprises, financial institutions, scholars, and policymakers from Australia, Italy, the United States, South Korea, Singapore, and Macao, China.
If you are interested in participating in this forum and jointly building a golden era, please contact us through the following channels or register directly to attend.
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Registration Link:http://www.huodongxing.com/event/4515757994700?qd=wenzhang1