Health for a Better Future: June Beijing Rehabilitation & Elderly Care Expo and CMEF Beijing Invite You to Experience the Wonders of Smart Technology

Public health is a significant indicator of national prosperity and strength. As one of the four pillars of medicine—prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and healthcare—rehabilitation medicine has increasingly become the focus of societal attention against the backdrop of the “Healthy China” initiative being officially elevated to a national strategy. Consequently, China’s healthcare sector has entered an unprecedented golden period of development. In particular, Beijing, as the economic hub of northern China, has consistently remained at the forefront of the healthcare industry. At the Second Session of the 13th Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held this January, Mayor Chen Jining announced that Beijing would prioritize the strategic deployment of the healthcare industry this year.

From June 28 to 30, 2019, the Beijing International Rehabilitation & Personal Health Expo (hereinafter referred to as the “Rehabilitation Expo”) and CMEF•Beijing, themed “iCare, Healthy Future,” will be grandly held at the China International Exhibition Center (Jinganzhuang Hall). As a highly influential B2B2C integrated service platform in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the biggest highlights of this event is that Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions, the organizer, has chosen Beijing, the capital city, as the venue for both branded exhibitions, creating a powerful synergy with two concurrent shows in the same city. Spanning nearly 35,000 square meters at the China International Exhibition Center (Jinganzhuang Hall), the event will bring together over 1,000 exhibitors from more than ten countries, including South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. They will showcase over 10,000 intelligent products and technologies as well as popular home health care items, presenting an unprecedented feast of health technology characterized by intelligence, interactive diversity, and distinct medical features.

Figure Caption: Opening Ceremony of Previous Rehabilitation Expos

Currently, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is sweeping across the globe. In particular, advanced technologies represented by artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, big data, deep learning, blockchain, AR/VR, and 3D printing are deeply integrating into every aspect of healthcare, shaping the future direction of the entire industry. Intelligent technologies, exemplified by rehabilitation robots, have gradually entered a new era characterized by capital synergy and integrated growth through collaboration among industry, academia, research, and application. Adhering to the principle that technology is the primary driver of innovative development, Rehabilitation Expo & CMEF Beijing is committed to introducing cutting-edge intelligent technologies into the healthcare sector, empowering industrial development and safeguarding public health.

At this rehabilitation exhibition, the organizers will spotlight a robotic industry cluster comprising 15 companies specializing in rehabilitation robots and exoskeletons, including Reable Medical, Beijing Daai, Guangzhou Yikang, Qianjing Rehabilitation, Beijing Ruide, Limade, Hanxiang Biology, and Shanghai Siyi. This showcase will present globally leading technologies and products for upper- and lower-limb rehabilitation robots to on-site attendees. Meanwhile, the organizers will collaborate with renowned experts in the field, such as Professor Pan Yu from Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Professor Pei Yusheng from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan, and Professor Zhang Liqun from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, USA, to co-host a high-level forum on the clinical application of cutting-edge technologies in rehabilitation robotics. This initiative aims to establish an interactive platform fostering the integrated development of industry, academia, research, and clinical practice within the rapidly evolving rehabilitation robotics sector.

In addition, numerous brand-name enterprises will make a grand reappearance with their latest smart technology products. For instance, Snibe, a leading IVD brand, will showcase its full line of chemiluminescence immunoassay products. Ningbo David will centrally display its independently developed infant incubators and infant radiant warmers. Getein Biotech will launch its newest portable POCT testing products. Beijing GeneTree Technology will present its latest intelligent biomedical products, including smart blood collection pillows and automatic bed-sheet changers. Other highlights attracting significant attention on-site will include Daqing Bio’s absorbable hemostatic membranes and artificial skin, as well as Guangzhou Sanrui Medical’s intelligent breast milk analyzer.

As a leading professional organizer of exhibitions and conferences in China’s health and wellness sector, Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions has long leveraged its platform to drive industry growth while continuously deepening its expertise in specialized segments. At this year’s Rehabilitation Expo, the organizer will innovatively expand dedicated clusters and sectors, including robotics and exoskeletons, wearable devices, rehabilitation engineering and therapy, assistive rehabilitation devices, sports rehabilitation, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis and rehabilitation, as well as hospital management and logistics infrastructure. By harnessing the synergistic power of these platform clusters, the expo aims to comprehensively support the industry in cultivating new business models and enhancing the quality of life for the public.

CMEF Beijing, while continuing the internationalization, specialization, and clustering characteristics of CMEF, will for the first time adopt a themed pavilion format to highlight several rapidly growing sectors, including emergency medical rescue and pre-hospital/in-hospital emergency care, in vitro diagnostics, and medical consumables. This approach aims to encourage active corporate participation and comprehensively promote coordinated development and mutual benefits within the regional healthcare industry.

Caption: Lively scenes from previous exhibitions

At the event, attendees will have the opportunity to view specialized exhibits across different zones. Prominent domestic medical device manufacturers, including Contec Medical Systems, Biolight, Guangzhou Weili Medical, Autobio Diagnostics, Dymind Biotechnology, and New Huan Medical, will make a grand appearance with their flagship products, such as patient monitors, anesthesia machines, ventilators, endotracheal tubes, indwelling urinary catheters, hematology analyzers, microbial detection systems, and digital radiography (DR) equipment. Leading Chinese companies in the medical consumables sector, such as Henan Piaoan, Henan Tuoren, and Jiangxi Hongda, will showcase their internationally advanced biological products, medical polymer materials, and disposable consumables.

Particularly noteworthy is the introduction of a themed pavilion dedicated to emergency medical rescue, featuring mobile hospital equipment, first-aid devices, and emergency department equipment. This initiative aims to support the establishment and improvement of national mechanisms for emergency medical response to sudden incidents and ensure efficient coordination between pre-hospital emergency care and in-hospital emergency services. Organized in collaboration with authoritative institutions at CMEF Beijing, the pavilion will showcase products such as automated external defibrillators (AEDs), automatic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) systems, and wearable defibrillators from exhibitors including Tianjin Purui Instrument, ZOLL Medical Corporation (USA), Jiangyin Wanshixing Medical, and Jiangsu Miller Medical Technology.Furthermore, the organizers will join forces with the SCO Hospital Cooperation Alliance, the Disaster Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the Emergency Resuscitation and Disaster Medicine Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the Civil-Military Integration Health Emergency Training Academy of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and the Institute of Disaster Medicine at Tianjin University to co-host the grand “1st Summit Forum on Emergency and Rescue Medicine.”

Home and personal health care products have become a highly mature industry with significant market share in Europe and the United States. Statistics show that the global market size had already reached $17.9 billion as early as 2010. Although China’s home medical device sector started late and had a small base, it has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Driven by multiple factors—including consumption upgrades, a growing sub-healthy population, a surge in chronic disease patients, an aging society, favorable policies, and the integration of smart technologies—the industry has seen explosive development. Statistics indicate that the sector will continue to maintain an annual growth rate of over 20%. Home and personal health care has become a new essential need, alongside elderly care, education, and medical services. As health becomes people’s primary concern, consumers remain uncertain about where they can specifically learn about or experience these health care products.

To better meet consumer demand, the organizers of the Rehabilitation Expo will innovatively expand into the home and personal health sector, featuring seven end-consumer-focused segments: rehabilitation assistive devices, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation nursing, smart elderly care, medical aesthetics and maternal-infant care, sleep health, and nutritional supplements.

To date, the exhibition has attracted exhibitors such as Sinocare, Guangdong Kaiyang, Swich, Landwind, Pango, Wanrui, Innuovo, Contec, Foshan Xinlan, Dayang, Sinocare, Biolight, Yuwell, Zhongke Meiling, Aioluo, Daosheng, Beijing Yasi Lianfa, Xi Wang New Materials, Shanghai Maidong Medical, and Shenzhen Laifushi. These exhibitors have registered to showcase star products spanning categories including home treatment, home monitoring, home assistive devices, and home care supplies. Featured products include smart home blood glucose meters, fetal heart rate robots, smart pillows, smart facial beauty devices, intelligent sleep diagnosis and monitoring systems, wearable sleep monitors, smart canes, smart wheelchairs, single-legged walkers, wearable smart gloves, digital TCM preventive healthcare systems, portable human motion analysis and monitoring systems, bedroom-dedicated oxygen concentrators, portable mesh nebulizers, and smart nursing beds.

“Exhibitions as the soul, conferences as the spirit, with exhibitions and conferences complementing each other” has always been the hallmark of Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions. At this year’s event, the organizer will join hands with authoritative institutions and experts—including the SCO Hospital Cooperation Alliance, the Chinese Hospital Association, the China Medical Devices Association, the Beijing Society for Precision Medicine, the China Rehabilitation Research Center, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Fuwai Hospital, PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital), Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking University People’s Hospital, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Xiyuan Hospital, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Tianjin TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital, RehabMed Network, and the Cardiopulmonary Prevention and Rehabilitation Collaboration Network—to invite hundreds of experts and scholars from the entire medical industry chain encompassing production, education, research, and application, as well as leading enterprises such as Opeide and Limaidi. Together, they will co-host dozens of high-profile thematic forums on industry hotspots, including the “Frontier Technologies in Rehabilitation Robotics and Med-Eng Face-to-Face Forum,” “Workshop on Clinical Knowledge and Practical Skills in Neurorehabilitation,” “Application of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Technologies,” “Microbiota Rehabilitation Forum,” “Forum on Development Trends in Integrated Medical and Elderly Care,” “Primary Healthcare Forum,” “CDMO Forum,” “Neonatal Medical Development Forum,” and the “1st Summit Forum on Emergency and Rescue Medicine.” This will provide attendees with an extraordinary intellectual feast that deeply integrates frontier technologies, clinical practice, and industrial development.

As a new wave of consumption upgrades and the era of new retail sweep in, consumers have developed a stronger demand for high-quality, healthy living. Following the successful co-creation of the “First Medical and Health Products Group-Buying Festival” with JD.com in 2018, the exhibition organizer will once again join forces with numerous domestic brand exhibitors to launch an unprecedented rock-bottom group-buying campaign for medical and health products. Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase a wide range of cost-effective home and personal health care products on site. To date, more than 30 brand exhibitors, including Sinocare, Pangao, Landwind, Wanrui, Airtac, Oriental Wheelchair, Swich, Yuehua, and Daio (Japan), have registered to participate in the group-buying event.

Figure: Screenshot of the poster for the 2018 Rehabilitation Expo Medical Group Purchase Festival

It is better to cultivate health before illness strikes than to seek treatment after disease has set in. Proactive preparation and preventive care are vital pathways to achieving health for all. During the exhibition, the organizers will invite more than ten renowned experts from top-tier (Grade 3A) hospitals—including Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, and the PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital)—as well as from traditional Chinese medicine wellness centers. They will hold large-scale expert lectures and free clinic activities centered on themes such as “Prevention and Treatment of the ‘Three Highs’ (Hypertension, Hyperglycemia, and Hyperlipidemia), Traditional Chinese Medicine Conditioning, Maternal and Child Healthcare, and Anti-Aging Wellness.” Topics will cover the prevention and treatment of common conditions affecting the general public, including cervical and lumbar spondylosis, cardiovascular diseases in the elderly, Parkinson’s disease, osteoporosis, family healthcare training, rehabilitation from sports injuries, and oral health care.

In addition, the exhibition site will host a variety of interactive activities, including new product launches, visitor experience tours, and prize draws for pre-registered attendees. The Visitor Experience Tour will provide on-site attendees with personalized “Personal Health” tour routes.

Caption: 2018 Expert Lecture Series Event

In summary, whether it is the rise of the medical device industry or the booming rehabilitation, elderly care, and personal health sectors, the driving force behind them is people’s aspiration for a better and healthier life. It is believed that the holding of the Beijing International Rehabilitation & Personal Health Expo and CMEF·Beijing will not only establish a one-stop comprehensive service platform for more professionals concerned with the healthcare industry but also comprehensively enhance the development level of China’s healthcare cause in the new era. For more highlights and updates on the exhibition, please continue to follow the official website and WeChat platform.

“Promoting the coordinated development and innovative integration of healthcare in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region” is a significant manifestation of implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important remarks on the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, as well as a key component of deeply advancing the national strategy for regional coordination. To actively implement the national health strategy and facilitate the comprehensive rollout of the tiered diagnosis and treatment system, against the new industrial backdrop of “integrated healthcare in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,” Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions Co., Ltd., the organizer of CMEF, grandly held the Beijing International Medical Device Exposition (abbreviated as: CMEF·Beijing) from June 28 to 30, 2019, at the China International Exhibition Center (Jinganzhuang Hall).

CMEF Beijing, while upholding the internationalization, specialization, branding, and clustering characteristics of CMEF, fully leverages CMEF’s global resources to maximize the overall advantages of the platform. By integrating industry development trends, regional medical specialties, and comprehensive market demands, it focuses on building multiple specialized segments covering the entire upstream, midstream, and downstream industrial chain, including emergency medical rescue and pre-hospital/in-hospital emergency care, in vitro diagnostics (IVD), and medical consumables. This initiative aims to comprehensively promote coordinated development and mutual benefit within the medical industries of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and the broader northern China area.

CMEF (China International Medical Equipment Fair), established in 1979, is held twice a year in spring and autumn, comprising both an exhibition and a forum. With over 40 years of accumulation and development, it has evolved into a leading global comprehensive service platform covering the entire medical device industry chain. The platform integrates product technology, new product launches, procurement and trade, brand promotion, scientific research collaboration, academic forums, and education and training. Exhibits encompass tens of thousands of products, technologies, and services across the full industry chain, including medical imaging, clinical laboratory medicine, in vitro diagnostics (IVD), medical optics and electronics, hospital construction, smart healthcare, and intelligent wearable devices. To fully leverage the guiding role of this comprehensive platform, the organizers have recently introduced more than 30 specialized industry clusters at the event, such as artificial intelligence, CT, MRI, operating rooms, molecular diagnostics, POCT, rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation aids, and medical ambulances, to centrally showcase the latest technological achievements in the industry.

To date, the exhibition has consistently attracted more than 7,000 medical device companies from over 30 countries and regions worldwide to exhibit annually; it has also drawn more than 2,000 academic experts and industry elites, as well as 200,000 professional visitors—including government procurement agencies, hospital buyers, distributors, and agents from over 100 countries and regions—to attend for procurement, networking, and experiential engagement.

Meanwhile, the CMEF organizer has successively cultivated a series of influential sub-brands, including ICMD (China International Medical Device Design and Manufacturing Technology Exhibition), CMEF Congress, CMEF Imaging, CMEF IVD, CMEF Indonesia, CMEF·Beijing, China Smart Health Expo, and Beijing International Rehabilitation and Personal Health Expo, comprehensively supporting the industry’s transition into the new era of intelligent healthcare.