On December 14, the 2023 National High-performance Medical Device Innovation Ecology Summit (hereinafter referred to as the "Summit") with the theme of "Innovation Leads Ecological Moistening" was held in Shenzhen. This summit brings together well-known academicians, industry leaders, clinical experts, and investment experts to discuss the frontier of the industry, discuss innovation cooperation, and share innovation achievements, so as to create a high-standard, high-standard, and high-level medical device industry event, anchor Shenzhen's status as a leading domestic and world-class high-end medical device industry agglomeration and development highland, and continue to build a full-chain innovation ecology of high-performance medical devices in China.
The summit was guided by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the people of Shenzhen, and co-sponsored by the National High-performance Medical Device Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Guochuang Center"), the people of Longhua District, Shenzhen, and the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
As one of the "20+8" industrial clusters that Shenzhen strives to build, the high-end medical device cluster is one of the few industrial clusters across the fields of advanced manufacturing, science and technology, and medical care, which is of great significance to Shenzhen, which adheres to the manufacturing industry as the foundation of the city.
According to the data, in 2022, Shenzhen's medical device output value will be 98.6 billion yuan, with more than 1,800 medical device manufacturers, including three of the world's top 100 medical device companies and 53 national "little giant" medical device companies.
At the summit, as the only national manufacturing innovation center in the field of medical devices in China, the Guochuang Center not only released more than 100 medical device innovation projects in conjunction with the Medical Innovation Center of the Ministry of Health of Singapore, Treadlines (China) of Israel, the Innovation Center of Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and the ICCA MT of the German Medical Valley, but also cooperated with Sinopharm and Sinopharm Huawei and other institutions have reached strategic cooperation to work together to solve the research and development of key common technologies in the medical device industry, comprehensively improve the innovation capability of the medical device industry, and promote the high-quality development of the medical device industry. The summit also officially released the "Ninth Batch of Excellent Domestic Medical Equipment Product Catalog", and a total of 425 products from 126 companies were selected to provide technical support for the configuration of medical equipment in China's medical and health institutions.
At the summit, a number of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly discussed the future of the medical device industry. In addition, a number of leading representatives from the industry, medical and capital circles discussed the development status, challenges and opportunities of the industry around the topics of independent and controllable high-end medical devices, medical device innovation ecological construction, and engineering medicine.
Longhua District released the plan of the International Medical Device City at the summit site. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Representative Office of the China Medical Equipment Association and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area High-end Medical Equipment Industry Acceleration Center were officially unveiled and landed in Longhua. In addition, as the highlight of this summit, the 2023 China Medical Device Industry List and Awards were announced. (Wang Xu, Shenzhen Reporter Station, China).
*: China**Net.