Liu Yaping, CEO of Suzhou Hemizi Health Technology Co., Ltd., brought a full set of portable medical devices to the scene—skin-adherent multi-lead ECG monitors, digital stethoscopes, palm-sized ultrasound devices, etc. With just one click to connect to a phone, ordinary people can easily monitor health data, instantly capturing the attention of the audience. “We focus on AI-driven health products covering scenarios outside hospitals, such as homes, communities, and villages.” As soon as Liu Yaping finished his introduction, Gong Miao, General Manager of Shanghai Putuo CPIC Home Senior Care Services Co., Ltd., actively responded: “The elderly in our community are mostly with dementia and disabilities, and they urgently need such portable monitoring devices. We hope to introduce them to the community for the elderly to experience!”

“Suzhou companies can produce high-quality ECG products, but Shanghai also has hardcore technology!” Lu Weiwei, Chairman of Shanghai Damai Xinkang Technology Development Co., Ltd., brought a six-lead ECG recorder that “combines hospital-grade accuracy with portability and ease of use, achieving an accuracy rate of 94.5%, capable of accurately capturing hard-to-detect ECG abnormalities at home, solving the detection pain point where symptoms disappear by the time elderly patients see a doctor.” Competition makes technology better, and cooperation expands the market! Lu Weiwei stated, “Suzhou enterprises’ technology is worth learning, while our advantage lies in compact and portable product design. The two sides are not substitutes but can jointly make the health monitoring ‘pie’ bigger and stronger, benefiting more elderly people.” This remark resonated throughout the hall, with many entrepreneurs nodding in agreement. “My core need is to bring products closer to the people! If the community is willing to test our products, we will fully cooperate!”

Song Qian, General Manager of Suzhou Sansan Sensing Technology, shifted the focus to the upstream industry. Holding an ultra-thin flexible piezoelectric film, she introduced: “This sensor, only one-tenth the thickness of a human hair, can be seamlessly embedded into smart home products like pillows and sofas, and can also be used as electronic skin for elderly care robots or even electronic blood vessels, providing a ‘sensory-free’ solution for vital sign monitoring.” An enterprise representative from Shanghai immediately signaled: “Our portable monitoring devices urgently need such highly flexible sensors. We must deeply connect later!”

Xu Feng, Assistant Vice President of Fushoukang Group, quipped, “I am Fushoukang Suzhou, and also Fushoukang Shanghai,” sparking laughter throughout the hall. “We cover 62 cities nationwide and 400,000 home care clients, focusing on 90% of home care services for the ‘9070’ model, and we urgently need high-quality smart hardware partners.” Xu Feng frankly stated that the portable devices brought by the entrepreneurs on site perfectly matched the needs of door-to-door services. “We have the service network, but lack down-to-earth products. We look forward to deep cooperation!”

The involvement of industrial platforms and cutting-edge technology has deepened the synergy of the Shanghai-Suzhou silver economy. Zong Qin, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Gerontechnology Industrial Park, introduced that as an important incubation platform for Shanghai’s health and elderly care innovation, the park leverages the scientific research and talent advantages of East China Normal University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, focusing on the incubation of elderly care enterprises and the transformation of scientific achievements. “Whether it’s industry leaders or start-up tech teams, we can provide coordinated municipal and district policy support and full-chain landing services, helping high-quality technologies quickly enter elderly care scenarios.”

As her words fell, Jiang Wen, CEO of Shanghai Xiaoling Biomedical Technology Co., Ltd. and a national high-level talent, brought a frontier breakthrough: “We focus on the innovative track of AI and biotechnology integration. Our independently developed vertical aging large model can predict organ physiological age, warn of aging turning points, and provide personalized anti-aging plans for the elderly.” Jiang Wen revealed that the company has completed seed round financing and is actively seeking cooperation scenarios such as nursing homes and health checkup centers for implementation. Zong Qin immediately responded, “Such hardcore tech companies are exactly the direction we prioritize supporting! The park not only has professional scientific innovation service capabilities but also can connect with massive elderly care application scenarios. Welcome to join for deep cooperation.”

From the portable innovation of terminal devices to technological breakthroughs in core components, from precise adaptation of scenario implementation to ecological empowerment of industrial incubation, the concerted efforts of Shanghai and Suzhou enterprises in the smart health track are not only accelerating the connection of cutting-edge technology with diverse elderly care needs but also unleashing the full synergy of the Yangtze River Delta silver economy, injecting continuous innovation vitality into technology-based elderly care.

“We use digital solutions to solve the problem of elderly people eating difficulties, delivering tens of thousands of meals to them every day, and we can also facilitate more silver product connections!” Hao Xiaoqi, General Manager of Shanghai Elderly Technology, shared precise solutions for home-based elderly care needs. She issued a cooperation invitation on the spot: “We are willing to bring Shanghai’s meal assistance experience to Suzhou, so that the elderly in both places can eat safely and happily.” Liu Xuelian, General Manager of Suzhou Jiule Health Industry Development Co., Ltd., immediately responded: “We operate day care centers and urgently need high-quality product source suppliers. We also want to bring Suzhou-style home cooking into Shanghai communities!”

“These glasses can correct vision, assist hearing, and change color for sun protection, with Swarovski crystal elements for fashion!” Liu Xiaoyu, General Manager of Shanghai Jianquan Medical Equipment, demonstrated multifunctional hearing-assist glasses and expressed hope for more cooperation opportunities. The Mo Li companion robot from Fudan University’s entrepreneurial team has iterated bidirectional interaction functions. “We came to the previous Silver Economy Salon and upgraded the product by integrating a health consultant and psychological healing Agent!” CEO Chen Siying collected customization needs from elderly care institutions, and representatives from several Suzhou nursing homes expressed willingness to provide scenario testing to help optimize the product to better suit the preferences of the elderly.

“Open Amap and search for nursing homes, and priority is given to partner institutions. In the previous Silver Economy Salon, one nursing home reached cooperation and achieved full occupancy!” Deng Mengting, Senior Business Director of National Key Accounts at Amap, brought a solution to make demand docking more accessible. Ye Qiang, New Media Operations Manager of Shanghai New Oriental Wokai, hoped to connect with high-quality resources to enrich the curriculum system of the university for the elderly and invited enterprises to join the e-commerce platform for shared cooperation opportunities. Zhu Tiebing, Deputy General Manager of the Science and Technology Finance Department at Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank, introduced the “Xin Dong Neng+” platform, integrating over 100 ecosystem institutions to provide non-financial services such as policy docking and resource matching. Zhu Minjie from China Health Insurance Shanghai Branch presented the upgraded Nursing Insurance 2.0 product: “Added assistive device rental services. Welcome products that can improve the quality of life of the elderly to cooperate and join!”

From the “technology adaptation” of aging-friendly renovations to the “scenario embedding” of health services, from the “supply chain interoperability” of silver food to the “route co-building” of cultural tourism and travel, from the “cross-city linkage” of technological products to the “full-chain empowerment” of financial ecosystems, Shanghai and Suzhou enterprises are interpreting the profound connotation of “co-opetition and win-win” with practical actions. With the implementation of more cross-regional, full-chain cooperation, the Yangtze River Delta silver economy will accelerate the formation of a development pattern featuring “standards for renovation, warmth in services, quality in consumption, support from technology, and vitality in the ecosystem,” providing a replicable “Shanghai-Suzhou sample” for the coordinated development of the national silver industry.

This cross-Shanghai-Suzhou industrial engagement is not only a “practical answer sheet” for implementing the Yangtze River Delta integration development strategy but also builds a “bridge” for coordinated development between the two cities—allowing policy dividends in the civil affairs field to deeply blend, enabling scattered industrial resources to converge efficiently, and sparking exciting cooperation opportunities.

As the first silver economy docking event between Shanghai and Suzhou, the salon facilitated the implementation of multiple cooperation intentions, further deepening the normalized exchange mechanism of the Shanghai-Suzhou silver economy ecosystem. Leveraging Shanghai’s mature silver consumption scenarios and Suzhou’s high-quality industrial resources, the two cities will continue to collaborate deeply in areas such as smart health devices, rehabilitation aids, aging-friendly home furnishings, and Jiangnan-style health tourism products, providing strong support for solving supply-demand mismatches in the silver industry and promoting the standardization, marketization, and intelligent development of age-friendly products.

At the end of the event, Ma Zhiwen, General Manager of Shanghai Silver Economy Trade Development Co., Ltd., issued a heavyweight invitation to the Shanghai Senior Care Expo: Looking forward to this June, offering a broader exhibition and docking stage for Shanghai-Suzhou silver enterprises, enabling high-quality products to precisely “connect” with potential markets. Even more exciting, the on-site establishment of a silver economy enterprise database officially “set sail,” which will become a “super link” for resource circulation, normalizing and institutionalizing efficient docking of “enterprises finding markets, products finding scenarios, and demands finding supplies.”

In the future, Shanghai and Suzhou will continue to deepen comprehensive cooperation in the silver economy, launch more practical and efficient docking and exchange activities, jointly create a benchmark for integrated elderly care services in the Yangtze River Delta, and contribute Shanghai-Suzhou wisdom and write a Shanghai-Suzhou answer sheet for actively addressing population aging with tangible cooperation results!