The 2026 Guangzhou Medical & Health Industry Expo will host 25 concurrent events, including the Opening Ceremony & Themed Summit, academic symposia, supply-demand matchmaking meetings, and health science popularization activities. Centered on the theme "Connect the Bay Area to the Globe, Drive Health through Innovation", these events will deepen exchanges and collaboration covering people’s wellbeing, technological innovation and industrial ecosystem.

International Medical Innovation Exchange & Opening Ceremony of 2026 Guangzhou Medical & Health Industry Expo

Time: Morning, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 1This session explores innovative development paths under the Hong Kong & Macao Medicine and Equipment Connect policy and international medical cooperation. It promotes interconnection of medical resources across the Greater Bay Area, introduces world-class pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and elevates the global competitiveness of Guangzhou’s medical and health industry.

 Launch Event of the Whole-Industry-Chain Innovation Development Initiative by Bank of China & Guangzhou National Laboratory

Time: Morning, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 2Focusing on key links including scientific research, technology incubation, achievement commercialization and cross-border development, this event introduces exclusive financial services and special support policies, building a three-way docking platform for finance, academia and industry. By deepening bank-laboratory collaboration and innovating investment and financing models, it addresses pain points in research translation, empowers cutting-edge R&D and medical-engineering cross-disciplinary innovation at the Laboratory, and facilitates industrialization of high-quality projects to fuel high-quality growth of life science industry in the Greater Bay Area.

Ancient Techniques for Modern Wellness: YuShan Orthopedic Innovation for Public Bone Health

Time: Morning, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 3This public-facing session delivers popular science on orthopedic disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, improves residents’ bone health literacy and self-management capacity, and advocates scientific exercise and healthy lifestyles.

HTA Sub-forum

Time: Morning, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 4Health Technology Assessment (HTA) experts conduct in-depth discussions on cutting-edge HTA topics, clinical applications and medical insurance implementation challenges. Industry participants share insights to gather new ideas and solutions for practical HTA deployment and sound industrial development.

2026 Special Forum on Precision Sports Health: Cardiorespiratory Fitness-Oriented Precision Exercise & Chronic Disease Management

Time: Morning, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 5This forum discusses emerging trends in sports health and health consumption, covering health management, sports rehabilitation, upgraded health consumption and digital healthcare. It drives innovative exploration of consumption upgrading and business models in the health industry.

Inaugural Meeting of the International Medical Special Committee

Time: Morning, August 21Venue: Meeting Room, Zone BThe committee is formally founded to boost international medical cooperation and academic exchanges, raise the international profile and global influence of Guangzhou’s healthcare sector, and advance opening-up in medical and health fields.

 Outstanding Project Roadshow of the Medical Innovation Camp, Guangzhou National Laboratory

Time: Afternoon, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 2This event showcases standout innovation and startup projects from the Lab’s Medical Innovation Camp, offering a roadshow and investment matching platform for biomedical teams to accelerate commercialization of promising research and foster new growth drivers for the healthcare industry.

 "Linking Innovation in Guangzhou" Hospital-Enterprise Transparent Matchmaking Forum

Time: Afternoon, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 3A transparent docking platform connects hospitals and enterprises to precisely match supply and demand across the medical and health industrial chain, advance coordinated hospital-enterprise development and efficient resource allocation, and build an open, transparent medical industry ecosystem.

 Exchange Forum on AI-Driven Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Development

Time: Afternoon, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 4This forum discusses innovative AI applications in healthcare, covering intelligent auxiliary diagnosis, AI drug discovery, smart health management and medical robots, accelerating industrial transformation and upgrading empowered by artificial intelligence.

 Q3 Guangzhou-Chengdu Innovative Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Exchange Forum

Time: Afternoon, August 21Venue: Conference Hall 2It facilitates exchange of clinical experience on innovative drugs and devices between Guangzhou and Chengdu, promotes cross-regional medical collaboration and resource sharing, and shares best clinical practices and innovative models to advance coordinated growth of regional pharmaceutical industries.

 Summit on High-Quality Development of New Biomedical Technologies

Time: Morning, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 1Focused on high-quality advancement of novel biomedical technologies and innovative medical products, this forum creates an industrial cooperation platform to drive healthcare innovation and deep integration of industry, academia, research and clinical practice.

 Exchange Forum on Coordinated Medication Support for Grassroots Medical Institutions

Time: Morning, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 2Participants exchange in-depth views on medication guarantee and coordination mechanisms at primary medical institutions, promoting standardized, accessible and rational drug use to safeguard residents’ basic medication demand and safety.

Guangzhou Integrated Acupuncture & Medicine Conference | Exchange Forum on the "1+N" System of Guangzhou Acupuncture Hospital

Time: Morning, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 3This session summarizes achievements and experience of the "1+N" system built by Guangzhou Acupuncture Hospital, advances integrated innovation of acupuncture and herbal therapy, inherits characteristic TCM therapies, and enhances regional service capacity and influence of traditional Chinese medicine.

 Exchange Forum on Innovative Drugs & Devices Under Coordinated Medical, Medical Insurance & Pharmaceutical Governance

Time: Morning, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 4It explores promotion paths for innovative pharmaceuticals and devices under the coordinated mechanism of medical care, medical insurance and pharmaceuticals, advancing coordinated policy implementation to boost clinical accessibility and high-quality development of the pharmaceutical industry.

 Real-World Research Exchange Forum

Time: Morning, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 5This forum focuses on methodologies and practical applications of real-world research for innovative drugs and devices, discussing the value and implementation pathways of real-world evidence in medical product regulation, clinical guideline formulation and medical insurance reimbursement.

 Academic Exchange Forum on Frontier Medical Technologies

Time: Afternoon, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 1The forum hosts thematic exchanges covering the full pipeline of cutting-edge medical technologies from laboratory R&D to clinical translation and deployment, facilitating efficient transformation of scientific research into clinical practice and advancing medical technological innovation.

 "Hundred Islands Gather Innovation, Devices Forge Medical Progress" Medical Device Frontier Technology & Commercialization Summit

Time: Afternoon, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 2Hosted during the Expo, this summit serves as an interdisciplinary, open and collaborative professional exchange platform.

 "Dynamic City Full of Opportunities" Biomedical Industry Investment Promotion Forum

Time: Afternoon, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 3This event introduces Guangzhou’s investment environment and industrial opportunities to domestic and overseas biomedical enterprises, showcases policy and business advantages, attracts high-quality projects to settle in Guangzhou, and drives cluster-based innovative development of the biomedical industry.

 Digital Intelligence Empowers Collaborative Innovation: Forum on Building a New Ecosystem of High-Quality Medical Services

Time: Afternoon, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 4Participants discuss how digital and intelligent technologies innovate medical services, transform service models and workflows, and build a new high-efficiency, high-satisfaction ecosystem of premium healthcare services.

Special Seminar on Frontier Innovative Drug Technologies

Time: Afternoon, August 22Venue: Conference Hall 5In-depth discussions cover cutting-edge R&D trends for innovative drugs, including novel target discovery, drug design & screening, preclinical evaluation, clinical trials and registration & filing, supporting breakthrough growth of the innovative pharmaceutical sector.

Dual Engine Powers Medical Innovation for the Future: 2026 Summit on Brain-Computer Interface & Nuclear Medicine Frontiers

Time: Morning, August 23Venue: Conference Hall 1This summit focuses on two cutting-edge medical fields: nuclear medicine and brain-computer interface. Discussions cover integrated radionuclide diagnosis & treatment, molecular imaging probes and radiopharmaceutical R&D to empower precision care for major tumors. It also explores frontier applications of brain-computer interfaces in neurological disorder diagnosis and intelligent rehabilitation, advancing cross-integration of brain science and AI and accelerating clinical translation of related diagnosis and rehabilitation technologies.

 Exchange Forum on Research Commercialization & Medical-Engineering Cross-Disciplinary Innovation

Time: Morning, August 23Venue: Conference Hall 2This forum centers on integration of medicine and engineering and industrialization of medical innovations, covering collaborative medical-engineering models, novel medical technology R&D, clinical demand matching and research translation.

Aesthetic Medicine Sub-forum

Time: Morning, August 23Venue: Conference Hall 3Discussions focus on cutting-edge technologies and standardized development of aesthetic medicine, covering minimally invasive aesthetic techniques, skin anti-aging repair, safety quality control and innovative aesthetic design.

 Digital Intelligence Empowers Life Manufacturing: AI-Driven Biomanufacturing & Next-Generation Precision Prevention & Treatment

Time: Morning, August 23Venue: Conference Hall 4This forum explores applications of AI-enabled biomanufacturing in precision prevention and treatment, promoting deep integration of life sciences and intelligent manufacturing to lead innovative development of next-generation precision medicine and biomedicine.

 Summit on Artificial Intelligence Innovation & Industrial Development

Time: Morning, August 23Venue: Conference Hall 5Participants exchange views on frontier AI innovation and high-quality industrial development, focusing on intelligent algorithm R&D, AI scenario deployment, digital-intelligent integration and industrial empowerment, and share the latest research achievements and technical use cases in artificial intelligence.

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25 high-impact events will run in parallel, bringing together frontier viewpoints, abundant supply-demand resources and ample cooperation opportunities. All industry peers are welcome to attend the 2026 Guangzhou Medical & Health Industry Expo, jointly explore paths for industrial innovation and tap new blue oceans of health industry development across the Greater Bay Area!