The 2026 National Medical Insurance Imaging AI Image Recognition Competition Award Ceremony was held in Nanning

China News Service, Nanning, November 6th (Jiang Xuelin, Huang Yanmei, Yu Jing) The 2026 National Medical Insurance Imaging AI Image Recognition Competition Award Ceremony with the theme of "Knowing Pictures with Intelligent Eyes and Leading the Future with Shadows" was held in Nanning, Guangxi on the 5th. This is China's first national-level "AI + medical image recognition" professional event, attracting a total of 1,332 teams from home and abroad to compete.

The picture shows the scene of the awards ceremony. Photo by Yu Jing

This competition is jointly sponsored by China's National Medical Security Administration and the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It has tracks for eight high-risk diseases, including lung cancer, kidney cancer, intracranial aneurysm, breast cancer, and thyroid cancer. It covers multiple imaging modalities such as CT, MRI, ultrasound, and X-ray. All tracks are designed based on real-world clinical diagnosis pathways.

The picture shows the scene of the awards ceremony. Photo by Yu Jing

The event attracts registration from universities, medical institutions, technology companies, scientific research institutes and other diverse entities at home and abroad. The event is outstanding in its professionalism, coverage and international level. After review, first, second and third prizes will be awarded, with a total of 193 awards.

At the awards ceremony, Teng Gaojun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a keynote report on AI image recognition for medical insurance. Yongjiang Laboratory released the results of the digital intelligence innovation platform. The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University introduced the results of the U-shaped privacy training and promotion network, and held an award ceremony, outstanding achievements display, signing ceremony and achievement industry docking meeting.

The picture shows the signing ceremony scene. Photo by Yu Jing

Zhang Ke, director of China's National Healthcare Security Administration, said that the National Healthcare Security Administration has always insisted on using real scenarios as a guide to promote artificial intelligence technology to serve clinical services and benefit the people. Through this event, we clearly see that the beautiful vision of medical imaging AI empowering medical insurance governance and protecting people's health is accelerating to become a reality. The National Medical Insurance Administration will continue to optimize the supply of front-end systems, solidify the implementation of mid-end scenarios, and improve the evaluation of back-end effectiveness, paving the way for progressive industrial upgrading and medical insurance payment-led scientific and technological innovation for new technologies, new methods, and products.

Officials from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region stated that at present, Guangxi's "artificial intelligence +" is accelerating its implementation and developing vigorously. It is willing to work with all parties to take advantage of the momentum, insist on promoting innovation, financing, and application through competition, and work together to develop real application scenarios for medical care, medical insurance, and medicine, build Yongjiang laboratories with high standards, and build An innovation carrier integrating technology, products, standards and talents, relying on platforms such as Fangchenggang International Medical Open Pilot Zone, we will explore the construction of a China-ASEAN Medical Imaging Data Sharing Service Center, promote more results to go out of the arena, benefit the public, and contribute to the construction of a human health and health community with scientific and technological innovation. (over)