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Christoph Gutenbrunner, head of Clinic for Rehabilitation Medicine at Hannover Medical School in Germany, visited the Shenzhen Intelligent Rehabilitation Aids Industry Base (Greater Bay Area Assistive Device Innovation Center) in Pingshan District on May 25. The two sides reached a preliminary consensus on the establishment of an international academy of rehabilitation medicine and science research center.

During Gutenbrunner’s visit, he tried various new intelligent rehabilitative products and discussed technological details with enterprise representatives, praising the intelligent manufacturing achievements in Pingshan.

Gutenbrunner is a specialist of physical and rehabilitation medicine. His research fields are mechanisms and effects of physical modalities and comprehensive rehabilitation programs. Hanover Medical School is one of Europe’s premier medical schools. It has a strong research focus and its research areas include immunology, infection biology, neuroscience, regenerative medicine and more.

Back in February, a Pingshan delegation seeking investment and talents visited the Clinic for Rehabilitation Medicine at Hannover Medical School in Germany to discuss the establishment of the international academy of rehabilitation medicine and science research center. At that time, the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding.

On May 21, the 2023 Shenzhen Assistive Device Creative Design Competition, with Pingshan District People’s Government as one of the organizers, was unveiled at the Care and Rehabilitation Expo China in Beijing. It announced that registration and submission of the competition will start July 1 and the whole event will run through October. A series of competitions will also be staged in Pingshan.

Rehabilitation aids have huge potential in China, and at present, rehabilitation aids have been included in the 20 strategic emerging industries and eight future industry clusters that Shenzhen focuses on. As the biopharmaceutical hub of Shenzhen, Pingshan District has the first national-level biopharmaceutical industrial base in the city, and has gathered more than 1,000 biopharmaceutical and high-end medical device companies. The number of medical device registration certificates in the base accounts for more than one-third of the city’s total, providing a solid foundation for developing the rehabilitation aids industry.

In May 2022, the Shenzhen Intelligent Rehabilitation Aids Industry Base (Greater Bay Area Assistive Device Innovation Center) was unveiled at Pingshan Rehabilitation Aids Industry Park. A number of innovative companies such as RHB-Tech Medical, XFT and Alicn have settled there.