On December 8th, the Changchun International Silver Hair Economy and Health Industry Development Exchange Conference, jointly organized by the Organizing Committee of China International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo and the Organizing Committee of Changchun International Medical and Health Industry Expo, and supported by the Hubei Chu Chamber of Commerce, was successfully held in Changchun, Jilin. More than 150 government representatives, experts, scholars, industry leaders, and media reporters from provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions such as Jilin, Guizhou, Liaoning, Ningxia, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai attended the meeting.

The "new three" represented by health and wellness, cultural tourism, and sports are gradually leading the transformation and upgrading of old industrial bases from traditional industries to modern service industries in recent years, injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of industries in Northeast China. The 2024 Changchun International Medical and Health Industry Expo will be held simultaneously with the 3rd World Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Conference from December 7th to 9th. The exhibition will be presented in a "1 (Jilin Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry Full Chain Exhibition)+4 (Medicine, Medical, Medical Care, and Medical Four Sections)" mode, with a total of 26 parallel conferences, professional conferences, economic and trade activities, supporting activities, and welfare activities held at the same time. More than 600 domestic and foreign enterprises will participate in the exhibition, and 16 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as more than 2000 overseas experts, will attend.

As one of the important events of the 3rd World Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology and the 2024 Changchun International Medical and Health Industry Expo (referred to as the "Health Expo"), this exchange meeting is an important measure taken by the organizing committee of the China International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo to help enterprises connect with the health and wellness market in Northeast Asia. With the theme of "Linking New Opportunities and New Blue Ocean in Northeast Asia", a "Health and Wellness Exhibition Area" was set up at the Health Expo, leading delegations of health and wellness enterprises from Hebei, Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shanghai and other places to exhibit and inspect the silver hair health and wellness industry in Changchun, Jilin. Industry experts and industry leaders were invited to give keynote speeches and roundtable dialogues, promoting "production" through "exhibition" and "business" through "meeting" To build an efficient linking platform for enterprises to seize the major opportunities of Northeast industrial revitalization, provide valuable industry insights and cooperation opportunities, and promote the deep integration and development of the silver hair economy and the health care industry.

At the exchange meeting, Gu Wenzhong, President of Changchun Elderly Care Service Industry Association, and Jian Hong, Secretary General of Hubei Chu Business Federation, delivered speeches. An expert in the elderly care industry and a leading KOL in the silver hair industry, titled "Empowering Aging: Creating a Demonstration Base for Living and Health Care" and "2025 Silver Hair Economy Outlook: Finding Incremental Growth and Going to the Blue Ocean Together", deeply analyzed how to empower the health care industry through innovative concepts to promote the comprehensive upgrading of base construction and the new opportunities and challenges that the silver hair economy is about to face. Representatives of leading enterprises in the health and wellness industry from Zhejiang, Beijing, and Ningxia have presented works such as "Reflections on the New Silver Hair Economy and the Yinrui Model" and "New Species of Silver Hair Economy: Jinxiaoquyuan" ® The theme sharing of the "Elderly Care Theme Bookstore" and "Creating a New Model of National Medical, Health, Travel and Joyful Elderly Care" introduces the operational wisdom and successful cases in their respective service fields. The roundtable dialogue session focused on the topic of "How to make the health and wellness industry 'hot' and 'excellent' in the era of silver hair economy?" The presidents and business leaders of chambers of commerce and industry associations from Liaoning, Jilin, and Guangdong shared their profound insights accumulated in the field of health and wellness industry, providing valuable inspiration and strategic thinking for the development of the health and wellness industry.

Hong Wenchao, Director of the Executive Committee of the China International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo (EE Expo), gave a keynote speech at the exchange meeting, introducing the strategic positioning and industrial layout of EE Expo as the only brand chain elderly care professional exhibition in China under the title of "Five Chariots Leading You into the Silver Hair Economy Fast Lane". He also promoted the investment of EE Expo in Wuhan, Guangzhou, and Xi'an in 2025. Since 2017, the EE Expo has successfully toured in cities such as Guangzhou, Xiaogan, Luoyang, Wuhan, Xi'an, Datong, Hong Kong, Macao, and Malaysia. Dozens of city inspection and exchange events, as well as supply and demand matching meetings, are held every year. After 8 years of hard work, the exhibition area has exceeded 200000 square meters, and more than 3000 strong exhibitors have been deeply connected and cooperated with. It has attracted over 600000 visitors to visit and purchase, and has been highly recognized by the government, industry associations, industry enterprises, and buyers. With the EE Expo as the core, the Executive Committee of the EE Expo has established a "five carriage" matrix of "Expo+Silver Age Good Goods Mall, Silver Age Hui, Silver Age Fun Festival, and Silver Age Industry Research Institute", building a comprehensive service platform for silver age happiness throughout the entire industry chain, and leading industry partners into the fast lane of silver age economy. In 2025, the EE Expo will usher in the largest and highest standard national exhibition in history. The Wuhan, Guangzhou, and Xi'an Expo will be held in April, August, and September 2025, leveraging the linkage effect of the three cities, catering to the development trend of the silver haired economy, building a bridge between government and enterprises, promoting resource integration, and helping enterprises to collaborate and share high-quality health and wellness resources in the "Central Region+Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area+Northwest Region".

The successful holding of this exchange meeting will be accompanied by the continuous transformation and application of the exchange results, promoting multidimensional cooperation in the silver economy, medical and health care, and upstream and downstream industrial chains in Changchun and even the whole country, and leveraging the deep docking of industrial chains such as health and elderly care, travel and elderly care, and smart elderly care. The China International Elderly Care and Health Industry Expo will continue to uphold the principles of openness, cooperation, and mutual benefit, building more diverse and efficient communication platforms for the healthcare industry, helping enterprises explore broader market space, and jointly writing a new chapter in the development of the silver hair economy and healthcare industry.