Expert: China's "silver-haired people" have huge consumption potential, and the technology industry for elderly care is a blue ocean

　　Intern reporter Dai Xiaopei

　　"From 2014 to 2050, the consumption potential of China's elderly population will increase from about 4 trillion yuan to about 106 trillion yuan, and the proportion of GDP will increase from 8% to 33%." On December 20, in the second At the Beijing High-Quality Development Forum, Huang Lucheng, the person in charge of major projects of the National Social Science Fund, the chairman of the Future Analysis and Management Committee of China’s Enterprise Management Research Association, and the second-level professor of Beijing University of Technology mentioned a set of data. He said that China The elderly market has huge potential.

　　At present, the total amount of my country's elderly products and emerging elderly technology companies is seriously insufficient.

There are 60,000 kinds of elderly products in the world, and there are 40,000 kinds in Japan alone, while there are only more than 2,000 kinds in the Chinese market.

According to estimates, each senior care technology company serves 100,000 people.

　　Huang Lucheng said that the growth of the elderly population involves tens of thousands of households, and the development of health care technology is conducive to improving the sense of gain and happiness of the entire society, and promoting the healthy and harmonious development of the society.

　　"The health and elderly care technology industry is formed on the basis of interdisciplinary, related industries and medical industry integration. The industry is in the emerging stage of development, with high growth in the future." Huang Lucheng said.

　　The previously released "National Medium and Long-term Plan for Active Response to Population Aging" emphasized "taking scientific and technological innovation as the first driving force and strategic support for actively responding to population aging."

　　To encourage the rapid growth of emerging senior technology companies, Huang Lucheng puts forward some suggestions.

For example, encourage high-tech enterprises and listed companies with basic and strong business capabilities to expand their business and gradually become emerging technology enterprises for the elderly; add senior technology to the high-tech fields supported by the state, encourage the implementation of entrepreneurship in the senior technology field, and Priority will be given to the application of high-tech enterprises whose main business is pension technology products; the corresponding tax preferential period will be given to pension technology enterprises.

　　Huang Lucheng believes that it is necessary to mobilize the participation of social forces to stimulate the innovative vitality of emerging elderly technology enterprises, encourage the development of emerging elderly technology enterprise activity units in various parks and development zones, attract research and development institutions and related enterprises to enter the park, and form emerging elderly technology enterprises The development trend of clusters, vigorously fostering innovative entities for the elderly.

　　Experts said that it is also necessary to clarify the development path of the health care technology industry.

For example, to upgrade existing health care products and services with technological innovation, and to develop markets for low- and middle-income elderly groups.

At the same time, it will industrialize the scientific and technological innovations in the elderly and open up the market for high-income elderly groups.

　　"Incorporate health and elderly care technology innovation into the construction plan of the National Science and Technology Innovation Center, and strive to make Beijing a source of key core technologies and basic common technologies for the country's senior technology and industry, and become my country's leader in seizing the international senior technology'commanding heights'." Huang Lucheng said.

　　Huang Lucheng suggested that in the establishment of related science and technology projects, key support should be given to basic research, common technological innovation and policy innovation in health and elderly care technology, the establishment of innovative talent projects in the health and elderly technology industry, and research on relevant regulations, systems, policies, and methods.

　　In addition, we must study and formulate industry norms and standards.

"According to the physical functions and specific needs of the elderly, research and formulate a standard system for health and elderly care technology products and services to ensure the safety, convenience and effectiveness of health and elderly technology products and services." Huang Lucheng also mentioned that we must adhere to collaborative innovation, Open innovation-actively carry out international cooperative research in this field, while mobilizing social forces to participate.