Opening ceremony

Opening Ceremony of 2024 Guangzhou Expo:

The opening ceremony of the 8th China (Guangzhou) International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo

Time: 10:30-11:00, August 23, 2024

Venue: Canton Fair Exhibition Hall

Activate the driving force of reform, opening up, and innovation

Promote high-quality development of elderly care and the elderly care industry

This year's Old World Expo focuses on serving the new era of integrated development in the Greater Bay Area, introducing numerous famous elderly care service brands from Hong Kong, Macao, and various cities within the Bay Area to participate. Many Hong Kong enterprises have formed a shining Hong Kong group to make their debut, forming a regional gathering effect. The aim is to focus on the integration of high-quality elderly care resources in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area through exhibitions, discussions, exchanges, and negotiations. Relying on the good industrial foundation of the Pearl River Delta and the advantages of neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, we will integrate the elderly care health and exhibition industry resources of Guangdong Province, as well as Hong Kong and Macao, to present a high-quality, high-level, and fruitful elderly care health industry event for the industry.

The special booth of the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau features a prominent Nansha themed section, focusing on showcasing and promoting the integration of Guangzhou's elderly care into the construction of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and promoting the effectiveness of the Nansha Plan. It is understood that in recent years, the Guangzhou Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau has issued the "Implementation Plan for Supporting Nansha District in Building a Model for Reform and Innovation in the Civil Affairs Field of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong Province)". By continuously optimizing the business environment, fully opening up the elderly care service market, canceling the establishment permit of elderly care institutions, implementing record keeping management, and actively supporting Hong Kong Macao elderly care service enterprises and social organizations through entrusted operations, sole proprietorship, joint venture cooperation, and other forms, Deeply participating in various fields such as community home-based elderly care services and institutional elderly care services in our city, and enjoying the same preferential policies as mainland investors, we will support Nansha District in building a demonstration model for reform and innovation in the civil affairs field of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong Province) with the strength of the city's civil affairs, and strive to create a benchmark for leading the high-quality development of civil affairs in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area and the national and provincial civil affairs industry, Support and guide Nansha to play a demonstration and leading role in the reform and development of elderly care services.

For the first time, we have innovatively held the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Health Industry Collaborative Development (Guangzhou) Smart Conference. Focusing on the theme of "The Future of Elderly Elderly Care in the Greater Bay Area", experts and scholars from various industries focus on the current hotspots, difficulties, and new growth points of the coordinated development of the health care industry in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. They analyze the optimization of elderly care service resource allocation, full play to the market role, and formation of strong cooperation in the Bay Area. They propose suggestions, strategies, and paths, and discuss effective strategies to actively respond to population aging in the new era, Promote the high-quality development of the elderly care and health industry in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area.

With the deepening of the reform of comprehensive elderly care services in Guangzhou, the elderly care service system is becoming increasingly perfect, and the siphon effect of the Guangzhou elderly care market is becoming increasingly evident. Most well-known elderly care enterprises across the country and even the world are optimistic about the markets in Guangzhou and the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. They have insight into market demand and industry trends, and have set up eight selected display areas in the entire elderly care industry, namely elderly care services, smart elderly care, aging adaptation transformation, auxiliary devices, rehabilitation care, health institutions, elderly care products, and health management. The international element of the exhibition has been significantly enhanced, bringing together more than 300 exhibitors at home and abroad, with an overall scale of nearly 30000 square meters. China Mobile, China Telecom, China Life Insurance, Yuexiu Health Care, Wonderful Home Group, the Pearl River Health, Chun Xuanmao, Panasonic Health Care, Midea, Shangtang Technology, Chuangqi Group, Qili, Jingda, Laibang, Shunkangda, Laolin Health Care, Mutual Love Health, Yanhuang Technology Many domestic and foreign brands such as Shidao have launched thousands of cutting-edge elderly care products, services, and technologies to meet the diverse procurement needs of buyers and help improve the high-quality life of the elderly.

After the sedimentation and brewing of the first six sessions, the Guangzhou Elderly Care Expo has become a grand event for consolidating intellectual cohesion, brand cultivation, product innovation, and integrated development. It has become an important window for Guangzhou to showcase the achievements of urban elderly care to the outside world, attracting the attention of civil affairs departments and elderly care health industry representatives from all over the country. Representatives from nearly 70 civil affairs departments/bureaus in Hainan Province, Anhui Province, Jilin Province, Inner Mongolia, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Hefei, Huai'an, Ma'anshan, Wuhu, Shuangyashan, Longyan, Yiyang, Wuhu, Luoyang and other provinces, cities, and counties across the country, as well as representatives from elderly care and health industry associations, elderly care institutions, medical institutions, professional audience groups, and exhibitors from various provinces and cities throughout the country, visited the Expo, The professional audience of this year's Old World Expo has reached a record high.

During the exhibition, nearly 30 themed forum activities were carefully planned and organized around 12 hot topics such as "smart elderly care, adaptive aging transformation, medical care integration, elderly care talent cultivation, and elderly care innovation". Government leaders such as the Social Welfare Center of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Department of Civil Affairs of Guangdong Province, the Labor and Welfare Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Du Peng, Vice President of Renmin University of China, and Peter Manu Ousu, Consul General of the Consulate General of the Republic of Ghana in Guangzhou were invited Industry experts, scholars, and industry leaders gathered together to enjoy the cutting-edge hotspots of industry development, giving keynote speeches, interpreting policies, and sharing experiences.

This exhibition focuses on the needs of the elderly and brings together outstanding global elderly care brands. Numerous cutting-edge technologies and smart products are exciting, competing on the same stage, bringing a feast of smart elderly care products. AI dynamic analysis health platform, AI intelligent care system, sleep radar, fall radar, disability and prevention robot, cognitive disease prevention intervention robot, dynamic electrocardiogram recorder, medication safety bag, Leling travel leisure bag, elderly care tablet inspection robot, intelligent medicine box, traditional Chinese medicine intelligent pulse monitoring device, health monitoring elf, HRA health risk assessment, ADDS cognitive dysfunction screening, millimeter wave vital sign monitoring device Functional underwear, sleeping zone pillows, intelligent alarm diapers, anti loss, spatial human body sensing radar, intelligent cameras... Numerous technological elderly care products have attracted attendees to consult and experience.

To promote the effectiveness of smart management in Guangzhou's civil affairs, the Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau also showcased the smart supervision system of the Guangzhou Elderly Service Comprehensive Information Management Platform for the first time at this exhibition. Relying on the elderly care platform, it is possible to supervise and manage the entire process of home-based elderly care services in the city, accept various complaints and suggestions of home-based elderly care services, track abnormal service work orders in a timely manner, monitor service data such as meal assistance, "Ping An Tong" services, assessment of elderly care needs, and service institutions in real time, Implement a closed-loop management model of "online application, approval review, service supervision, real-time recording, and funding settlement" as a new model for old service management.

In addition to offering a wide range of new elderly care products and diverse health options, the organizing committee also prepared various benefits for the elderly who came to the exhibition site. They collaborated with the Elderly Newspaper and Autumn Light Magazine to launch the "Weekend Take Parents to Visit the Elderly Expo" activity for hundreds of thousands of readers. Readers can visit the museum with the Elderly Newspaper and Autumn Light Magazine and participate in the lucky draw. Other attendees can also present their visitor ID card to participate in the old expo check-in activity, and participate in the on-site lottery through stamp collection to win a surprise gift. At the same time, multiple related forum activities and cultural performances for the elderly have been held, such as the "Pazhou Lunjian Chinese Elderly Care Leaders' Congress and the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area 'Silver Age Cup' Award Ceremony", to recognize influential figures in the 2023 Chinese elderly care industry; The Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area's middle-aged and elderly cultural performance enriches the cultural life of the elderly and showcases the vitality and style of the elderly in the new era.