On January 15, 2026, the event titled "Digital and Intelligent Empowerment of TCM: Collaborating to Create a New Vision for the 15th Five-Year Plan – Shanghai Guomin Health's 2026 Economic Outlook and Strategy Launch Event" was grandly held in Shanghai. Held at the outset of China's 15th Five-Year Plan period, this event aimed to respond to national strategies such as the Opinions on Promoting the Inheritance, Innovation, and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Implementation Opinions on Promoting and Standardizing the Application and Development of "Artificial Intelligence + Healthcare." It brought together wisdom from government, industry, academia, and research sectors to jointly draw a new blueprint for the smart TCM ecosystem and explore new pathways for the leapfrog development of TCM digitization and industrialization.
Launch of the "Smart TCM Community 2.0," Outlining a New Vision for the Digital and Intelligent Ecosystem
As a highly anticipated core segment of the conference, Shanghai Guomin Health officially unveiled its "Smart TCM Community 2.0" to the public. During the launch ceremony, key guests, including corporate representatives from Shanghai Guomin Group Health Technology Co., Ltd., experts in intelligent medicine from renowned universities, leaders of industrial groups, and principal officials from government liaison offices in Shanghai from various regions, took the stage together to initiate this landmark project.
Shanghai Nahefa Health's Smart TCM Community 2.0 Officially Launched
Ms. Liu, the Chief Operating Officer of Shanghai Guomin Health, subsequently provided a detailed interpretation of the strategic connotations. She pointed out that compared to the "product-based single-point empowerment" of the 1.0 phase, the 2.0 phase represents a leap to the "co-construction of a holistic ecosystem community," establishing a closed-loop system featuring "comprehensive hardware coverage + full-stack software empowerment + whole-chain ecological collaboration + co-construction by government, enterprises, and the public."
Its core upgrades are reflected in the construction of a full-stack architecture spanning the "data foundation layer - AI hub - application layer" in the technical dimension, an upgrade to joint ventures between government and enterprises in the mode dimension, and an extension to the enhancement of public health literacy in the value dimension. Its full-scenario compliant hardware product system includes clinical-grade TCM four-diagnosis instruments, tongue-pulse image detectors, and family health management kits, all of which have obtained Class II medical device registration certificates from the state and boast industry-leading technical indicators. The software system relies on artificial intelligence and medical big data technologies to construct a compliant data foundation, integrating the "Dazongshi" medical large model to form a full-stack solution covering diagnosis and treatment, research, health management, and supervision.
Elites from Government, Industry, Academia, and Research Gather to Discuss the Future of Digital and Intelligent TCM
The launch event attracted over a hundred participants, including directors of government liaison offices in Shanghai from nearly seventy regions across the country, renowned economists, leaders of medical digitization enterprises, and top experts and scholars.
The revitalization and development of TCM are facing historic opportunities, with digital and intelligent transformation being the key to activating millennia-old wisdom and reconstructing service logic. In his speech, a representative from the leadership of Shanghai Guomin Group Health Technology Co., Ltd. reviewed the company's seven-year innovative journey in TCM digitization, elaborated on the national health ecosystem network constructed through the "4+N" strategy, and expressed the company's mission and commitment to jointly drawing a new digital health landscape with local governments during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Experts' Discussions: Insights into Economic Trends and Exploration of Practical Implementation of Digital and Intelligent TCM
In the keynote speech session, Professor Wang Depei, Chief Economist at Fukang Think Tank, provided an in-depth analysis of the strategic connotations of the next five-year plan from a macro perspective and systematically explained the operational logic of China's economy in 2026, injecting macro strategic vision and industry confidence into the digital transformation and development of the TCM field. Professor Jiang Tao, Dean of the School of Intelligent Medicine at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, demonstrated through case studies the practical applications of AI large models in tongue image analysis and prescription optimization. He emphasized that "artificial intelligence is not meant to replace TCM but to rejuvenate millennia-old wisdom," highlighting that intelligent technologies are key drivers for promoting the modernization process of TCM and achieving industrial leapfrog development.
During the roundtable forum, experts, scholars, and industry leaders engaged in in-depth discussions around four major directions: "scientific research innovation, clinical empowerment, practical implementation, and commercial ecosystem." Li Kai, Academic Dean of the School of Information Engineering at Hangzhou Medical College, shared unique insights on "how to establish standards in the process of clinical TCM intelligence development." Wang Guangdong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, stated that "intelligent TCM detection equipment helps provide scientific evidence for the clinical efficacy of TCM."
From technological breakthroughs for clinical needs, scientific research breakthroughs empowered by digital and intelligent technologies, and collaborative efforts by government, industry, academia, and research, to the commercialization pathways and industrial ecosystem development of TCM digitization in 2026, valuable ideas were provided for the practical implementation of smart TCM.
Working Hand in Hand to Create a New Era of Digital and Intelligent TCM
The event concluded successfully with a group photo, serving not only as a feast of ideas but also as a bond of friendship and an invitation to the future. Outside the venue, a smart TCM product experience area allowed attending guests to personally experience the charm of cutting-edge technologies such as intelligent TCM detection equipment driven by The "Grand Master" Medical Multimodal Vertical Large Model.
Shanghai Nahefa Health stated that taking the 15th Five-Year Plan period as a new starting point, it will continue to deepen the Smart TCM Community 2.0 strategy, work hand in hand with cities across the country to activate traditional medical wisdom with technology, reconstruct health service logic with digital means, jointly promote the digital and intelligent transformation of TCM, contribute to the "Healthy China 2030" initiative, and make the vision of "everyone having access to high-quality TCM services" a reality.
