The second meeting of the First Council Board of “Belt and Road” Medical Device Innovation and Application Alliance (BRMDIA) was convened on Wednesday in the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) by the joint efforts of 109 institutions from 20 countries and regions through online and on-venue modes, where Dr Muhammad Shahbaz President of China Pakistan Medical Association from Pakistan has been awarded a certificate of excellence for his great contributions to the Health Corridor project. Several MoU’s including China Pakistan Cooperation in Healthcare Sector for Training Medical and Engineer Personnel were signed at the grand event.
“Belt and Road” Medical Device Innovation and Application Conference is an annual event for the medical device industry in China and the countries along the Belt and Road. The diversified activities include the BRMDIA council meeting, medical device innovation and application forum, exhibition of innovative medical enterprises, products and projects, release of the latest medical device and other important items. The Pre-conference training is also a shining light spot, covering many key areas in the development of medical devices. In 2021 Pre-conference medical device full process innovation training, famous specialists, college professors had a deep insight into such great topics as The performance and application of Medical polyurethane ;Development of Medical Device CDMO; The prospect of embedded computing technology in future medical application scenarios ;Numerical simulation accelerates medical device innovation; Digitization energizes the “Intelligent transformation “of medical industry; control and material selection of biomedical polymer material.
At the Second Conference of “Belt and Road” Medical Device Innovation and Application Forum, five keynote speakers made fabulous keynote speeches Prof. Cheng Yunzhang made analysis on the contribution of medical device enterprises’ products in the Belt and Road countries Fan Xiaodong, head of the National Technical and Economical Research Group for Medical Devices, Outlook on the development trend of medical equipment innovation in the 14th Five-year Plan of China; Mao Chenbin from the State Drug Administration; Interpretation of the newly implemented Regulations on supervision and management of Medical Device; Yu Qingming, chairman of Sinopharm Holdings Build the collaborative innovation community for high-end medical devices;
Professor Rustan Rahimov, National Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan?Director of the first laboratory of Institute of Materials Science, elaborated the topic: Broad prospects of functional ceramic infrared radiation and resonance therapy in the medical industry. The speeches were greatly appraised by the viewers at the main venue and through online.
The conference witnessed the signing ceremonies for strategic partnership in the fields of high-end medical equipment manufacturing, digital transformation, cultivation of medical professionals, innovation coordination in medical robots, cardiovascular intervention etc.
Leaders from Shanghai High-end Medical Equipment Innovation Center, China National Medical Device Co. Ltd., Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center, Shanghai Drug Administration, Technology Progress Division of Shanghai Economic and Information Commission were present at the conference and extended their warm congratulations on the congress and forum. Human health is inseparable from medical treatment while the progress of healthcare can’t grow without the self-innovation of medical devices.
The Belt and Road Medical Device Innovation and Application Alliance, integrated as one with Shanghai high-end Medical Equipment Innovation Center and Yangtze River Delta High-end Medical Equipment Innovation Alliance, will promote complementary development, aiming at the cutting-edge technology of high-end medical equipment, resolving common problems in the industry, and actively building an industrial ecology system that integrates the innovation chain, industrial chain and value chain of medical equipment and driving its leap-forward development.
The Belt and Road Medical Device Innovation and Application will Alliance strengthen cooperation and international communication and docking, explore the technological innovation, product innovation, model innovation, and exert efforts to be important forces to promote the development of high-end medical equipment innovation in and out of China. The Alliance has now 109 member units covering 20countries (regions), including China, Singapore, Pakistan, South Korea, Malaysia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Romania, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Serbia, Israel, Italy, Sweden, Holland, Brazil, Canada and the United States.
The council meeting was held for the purpose to make a summary of the one-year work and have an outlook for the plan of 2022. The secretary general, Prof. Cheng Yunzhang summarized the work, listing the marvelous work conducted by the member institutions in the past year. He also had a vision for the work of the Alliance in 2021. On 18th November several Memorandum of Understanding on jointly building an international innovative community of medical device were signed. Shanghai High-end Medical Equipment Innovation Center signed MoU with China Pakistan Medical Association for the establishment of State of the Art, China Pakistan Medical Technology & Innovation Park at USST. This will lead to New Era of Medical Technology & Innovation to enhance China Pakistan Cooperation in Healthcare Sector for Training Medical and Engineer Personnel. The MoU signing ceremony was held at USST on occasion of 2nd Belt & Road Medical Device & Innovation Application Alliance held at Shanghai China. Both parties agreed to cooperate on the principle of “complementarity, sharing, pragmatism, and win-win”, combine respective professional capabilities and advantages in the field of medical devices, focus on bottlenecks and problems in crucial medical – engineering crossover area, facilitate original innovation, jointly build an international community of medical device innovation including the ecological industrial system of integrated innovation chain, industry chain and value chain for the purposes of benefiting the human health, serving the ‘Belt and Road’ strategy, and contributing to the development of a Community of Shared Future for Mankind.
The BRMDIA will make further efforts to manage the Alliance in a good way, formulating a top advisory committee and professional sub committees. The Alliance will carry out diversified activities under the framework of Belt and Road, give full play to the Innovation Display Center under construction and focus on cultivation of professionals of medical equipment. The Alliance member institutions are full of confidence to work together to build the annual forum into an international brand for innovation and application of medical devices and turn the Alliance into a global community for the medical device professionals and enterprises.
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