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Five months ago, VCBeat quietly launched the “Member Inner Circle” project, aiming to create an elite community for the future of healthcare. Leveraging VCBeat as a platform, it connects friends around the world who are committed to making healthcare better.

Nowadays, the number of friends in our circle has long exceeded 1,000. We are delighted to find that these friends, brought together by VCBeat, share many similar traits: they are positive, upward-looking, willing to contribute, and committed to deepening their expertise in the healthcare sector.

These more than 1,000 global healthcare entrepreneurs, investors, executives of publicly listed healthcare companies, third-party supply chain professionals (from insurance, IT, informatization, hardware, finance, and other sectors), government officials, and researchers are not only the founding members of VCBeat but also the seeds through which VCBeat connects global healthcare resources.

Deeply moved to have the opportunity, through the VCBeat platform, to engage with so many outstanding individuals, forging friendships and partnerships for the journey ahead.

Here, we also officially announce the launch of VCBeat’s “Members’ Inner Circle,” marking VCBeat’s official entry into the 2.0 era.

As is well known, this is a methodology that VCBeat has consistently employed since its inception.FromThe pyramid model proposed by Harvard Business School consists of Data at the base, followed by Information, then Knowledge, and topped with Wisdom. After three years of accumulation, VCBeat aims to evolve into the Knowledge era, delivering more valuable insights to our users and bridging the gap between the healthcare industry and newcomers.

We aim to save users more time by leveraging VCBeat’s research, organization, and analysis, enabling them to quickly understand and recognize global developments in healthcare and identify their own strategic positioning.

Read carefully, and you will appreciate our sincerity in launching these new products:

Membership System 2.0

VCBeat Research will continue to deliver more in-depth industry reports, with a stronger emphasis on primary data and firsthand materials. Our analysis will primarily focus on two major themes: technology-driven and service-driven innovations. We will cover new healthcare opportunities arising from global leading technological and business model innovations, while continuing to conduct in-depth research across various specialized sectors.

Fragmented and overwhelming information permeates every aspect of our lives, making it a daunting task to sift through vast amounts of data to identify cutting-edge insights, interpret trending topics, and categorize key developments. *Future Healthcare Weekly*, evolved from the former *Eggshell Weekly Report*, focuses on a specific niche sector each week to analyze industry trends and summarize the week’s hot topics and financing news, enabling you to grasp the forefront of the medical and health industry and its emerging trends in just ten minutes.

The new membership system has strengthened the knowledge structure section, namely the newly launched Knowledge Map, which encompasses a database of over 100,000 Chinese healthcare industry policies and enterprise landscapes across 51 specialized sectors, enabling you to comprehend healthcare industry information in a more structured manner.

On September 23, we will host VCBeat’s inaugural member meetup in Beijing. After so much online interaction, we finally have the opportunity to meet in person. Members who have not yet registered are encouraged to contact our VCBeat Member Assistant promptly (WeChat ID: vcbeat_m).

At this event, we will officially announce the operational guidelines for the VCBeat Members’ Exclusive Circle and appoint the member group leader for Beijing. Subsequently, corresponding group leaders will be selected in East China, South China, and Southwest China, thereby fostering closer connections among VCBeat’s global members.

To help everyone better understand the membership structure of VCBeat, we are sharing some interesting information:

VCBeatofWhat is the composition structure of the community?

Over the past three years, VCBeat has reached an industry audience of more than 300,000 professionals, primarily comprising entrepreneurs, investors, listed companies, research institutions, government entities, and elite stakeholders across the third-party healthcare supply chain. The initial 1,000 members of VCBeat were drawn from this community. Looking ahead, we aim to grow our membership to 10,000 and eventually 100,000, fostering more efficient connectivity throughout the entire healthcare industry.

Below is the map we have created showing the locations of our members, which clearly illustrates that our VCBeat community members come from all corners of the country. Following the launch of our new membership system, we have segmented member locations into several concentrated regions, elected regional leaders for each area, and organized both online and offline activities to serve our members together.

From the perspective of company types, 38% of VCBeat members come from startups, which is an important group we have always focused on. Investment and consulting firms account for 22%, including top Chinese investment institutions such as Legend Capital and Matrix Partners China, as well as numerous investment funds from across China. In addition, nearly 10% of members come fromAlibaba, Tencent, Huawei, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Ping An Insurance, Porton, Haier, and other major Chinese companies across the healthcare, insurance, finance, and internet industries. Overall, this aligns well with VCBeat’s positioning of delving deep into the industrial chain.

Among these 1,000 members are senior executives, mid-level managers, and entry-level employees. The group includes numerous star entrepreneurs and investors, as well as many industry veterans with deep expertise. It also welcomes many newcomers who have entered the field and gained insights into healthcare innovation through VCBeat. Here, they all share a common identity: friends of VCBeat.

How do members typically interact? What are the benefits?

We have established a VCBeat member community, where members engage in daily exchanges and discussions of diverse information. VCBeat also shares new reports and updates with members in the group as soon as they become available.

Members are free to post their needs in the group to find suitable partners. Feel free to review the regular chat content.

Each year, VCBeat’s content team directly engages with and interviews over 5,000 professionals in the healthcare industry, bringing back a wealth of first-hand information and resources. We channel this value to our member community. In turn, we disseminate key insights from our members to an audience of 300,000.

Over the past five months, our Member Assistant has pushed more than 20 premium events to members, with tickets valued at over RMB 200,000, including the “International Forum on the Development of Precision Medicine Industry,” the “China Hospital Development Conference,” the “CCF-GAIR Global Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,” and the “China Primary Healthcare Innovation Practice Forum.”

Next, we will be organizing a nationwide member meet-and-greet event. We welcome our members to actively sign up and join us in building China’s largest community organization for medical innovation. For inquiries, please contact the VCBeat Membership Assistant (WeChat ID: vcbeat_m).

For more information, please scan the QR code below to learn about the detailed introduction of the official VCBeat membership!

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In the future, we hope to document more individuals and their stories, preserving a few memories of this magnificent and turbulent era;

Dedicated to our friends in gratitude for your support; as participants, you are all heroes ushering in the future of healthcare!