On March 24, the highly anticipated 2024 China Development Forum was held at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. More than 100 overseas representatives attended the forum, including Chinese and foreign dignitaries, well-known experts and scholars, heads of international institutions, Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Business leaders and other guests discussed China's economic development prospects. With the theme of "Sustainable Development of China", this forum will discuss hot topics such as high-level opening up to the outside world, carbon neutrality, artificial intelligence, new consumption, and the big health industry.
Amway has been invited to participate in the China Development Forum for 15 consecutive years. Amway Global CEO Pan Mulin attended the National Health Commission closed-door roundtable and delivered a keynote speech at the "Big Health Industry Symposium".
Amway Global CEO Pan Mulin
Pan said that China's economy is highly resilient, has great potential and is full of vitality; the next China is still China - China is still a hot land and highland for investment by multinational companies. Amway has invested in China for nearly 30 years. China has become Amway's largest market in the world and the fastest growing market for 21 consecutive years. In the past three years, Amway China's performance has achieved an average annual growth of 7%, showing the vitality and vitality of China's big health industry. vitality.
The China Development High-level Forum is hosted by the Development Research Center of the State Council and hosted by the China Development Research Foundation. It is the first national-level forum held after the National Two Sessions every year. It has been successfully held for 23 times since its inception in 2000. The forum adheres to the purpose of "dialogue with the world and seeking common development", focuses on releasing a strong signal of my country's insistence on opening up to the outside world, explains my country's development policies, and exchanges on the development of foreign-funded enterprises in China. It has formed a distinctive "small-scale, high-level" It has become an important platform to serve the country’s foreign economic exchanges and promote exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries.
Invest firmly in China and cast a vote of confidence in China
In the past three years, in response to the "Healthy China" national strategy and in line with the public's pursuit of a better life, Amway has taken the promotion of comprehensive health and the creation of a better life as its corporate purpose, deeply cultivated the big health track, increased product research and development and innovation, and consolidated digital operations. capabilities, build a strong and flexible supply chain system, establish and operate a comprehensive health and good life community with Chinese characteristics through marketers, spread health knowledge, provide personalized health solutions, and shape public healthy living habits. This business model based on the big health community creates multiple social values: training professional health service personnel, advocating healthy lifestyles to the public, providing healthy entrepreneurial opportunities, promoting corporate performance growth, and contributing to the construction of a healthy China with a professional and Vibrant grassroots power.
Pan Mulin said that China has a complete manufacturing industry system and a unique innovation ecology; the Chinese government has proposed to accelerate the development of new productivity and expand new consumption, including healthy consumption, green consumption, etc. The big health industry has huge development potential. At the end of February, Amway chose to hold a global board meeting in Guangzhou. During this period, Pan Mulin and the global board of directors and headquarters senior management team collectively visited Guangzhou Bio-Island to inspect the development of the biopharmaceutical industry in the Greater Bay Area, discuss global business strategic layout, and highlight Amway's commitment to the The Chinese market attaches great importance to and has firm confidence.
A month later, Pan Mulin rushed to Beijing to participate in the annual high-level development forum. Pan Mulin said that investing in China is investing in the future: Amway has invested in China for nearly 30 years and has established a complete operation chain from R&D, digitization, production, logistics, experience to service. In 2023, Amway will invest 600 million yuan to upgrade its Guangzhou production base to meet development needs in the next 30 years and optimize the global supply chain. In 2024, Amway will continue to increase investment in China:
Invest and build the first self-owned organic farm in China, continue to carry out large-scale aerospace breeding of Chinese herbal medicine, innovate more and better health foods based on Chinese herbal medicine, promote the modernization and internationalization of Chinese herbal medicine, and provide Chinese solutions and Chinese wisdom to global consumers;
Upgrade and transform more than 100 experience entities across the country, build high-tech, modern good life salons, create high-quality consumer spaces, and promote scientific, healthy, and civilized lifestyles to the community;
Integrate data centers and information technology teams across the country to strengthen digital infrastructure and improve digital operation capabilities.
This series of strategic investments will continue to consolidate Amway China's localized operation system and build Amway China into Amway's global supply chain hub, source of innovation and strategic growth engine.
Promote a healthy lifestyle and help the public enjoy a better life
WHO research shows that 60% of health and longevity depend on lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle is the best "health regimen".
Pan Mulin said that Amway's vision is to "help people live a healthier and better life" and encourage the public to practice a healthy lifestyle, that is, a balanced diet, supplementation as needed, moderate exercise, regular work and rest, and active social interaction. On the basis of "life span", enjoy a longer "health span".
As a "China expert" and a lover of oriental culture, Pan Mulin talked about the "Huangdi Neijing", Chinese medicine's emphasis on "preventing disease", meditation and yoga and other health methods, and believed that the code of human health lies in "the correspondence between nature and man". During the meeting, he shared a documentary "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones" that explores longevity areas in the world. Scientists studied Okinawa in Japan, Sardinia in Italy, and Ika in Greece. The following common features have been found in the living habits of people in places like Ria Island: eating healthy, staying active, having a peaceful mind, being active in socializing, being accompanied by family, etc. In Pan's view, this coincides with the comprehensive health and diverse values of a better life advocated by Amway.
Nutrilite, which celebrates its 90th birthday this year, originated from traditional Chinese medicine theory and traditional health philosophy. It relies on 134 self-owned and certified farms around the world to create a green industry chain "from seeds to finished products", from screening seeds to selecting Every aspect of the farm, harvesting, extraction, production, and packaging is traceable, providing consumers with safe and high-quality nutritional and health food.
At the same time, Amway empowers its big health entrepreneurs, and the company's online "Health Public Welfare Academy" brings together 2.7 million students; more than 60,000 nutrition and health consultants have been trained and certified by the Chinese Nutrition Society, and they have created hundreds of thousands of "big health communities" ”, driving consumers to turn knowledge into actions and actions into habits, improve health literacy, practice healthy lifestyles, and make a vibrant and healthy community a grassroots social unit that promotes the construction of healthy cities and healthy China. Help millions of people enjoy health and a better life.