China News Service, Nanning, November 4th (Wei Jiaxiu) On November 3rd, the 2026 Special Exchange Conference on the Development of the Residence and Wellness Industry was held in Nanning, Guangxi. Representatives from relevant industry associations and health care companies gathered together to conduct exchanges around issues such as standardization of residential health care and cross-regional resource linkage, focusing on solving the pain points of industry development and jointly seeking a new path for high-quality development of the silver economy.
The picture shows the exchange meeting site. Photo by Wei Jiaxiu
According to reports, this conference is guided by the Civil Affairs Department of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, hosted by the China Association of Social Welfare and Elderly Care Services, and hosted by the Guangxi Health Industry Association and other units. It includes policy interpretation, experience sharing, case studies, resource docking, and topic exchanges. It aims to build a national normalized travel and wellness industry cooperation platform and expand new space for cross-border travel and wellness cooperation.
Pan Zhiwu, deputy director of the Department of Civil Affairs of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, introduced at the meeting that Guangxi is adjacent to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and connected to Southeast Asia. It has 39 "China's Longevity Hometowns", accounting for more than one-third of the country's total. With superior ecological and climatic conditions, it is an important domestic destination for residence and health care. At present, Guangxi has cultivated more than 100 residential elderly care bases and built 40,000 residential elderly care beds. In 2025, it will receive more than 5 million elderly people to live in Guangxi. It has also implemented the first group of Hong Kong elderly people to travel to Guangxi for residential and health care. The results of cross-regional elderly care collaboration are outstanding.
Han Yuanli, president of the Guangxi Health Industry Association, pointed out that currently, China's residential and healthcare industry is moving from single-point exploration to a critical stage of global collaboration, but it still faces practical bottlenecks such as homogeneous construction, inconsistent service standards, poor connection between medical and healthcare, and insufficient cross-regional linkage. He suggested that regions should strengthen the connection of standards and the sharing of results, improve the cross-provincial cooperation mechanism for residential and elderly care, promote migratory bird exchanges, mutual promotion of routes, and mutual recognition of bases, and promote the integration of medical care, health care, cultural tourism, insurance, digital intelligence, etc., and enhance the comprehensive service capabilities of residential and elderly care.
Xu Jianzhong, executive president of the China Association of Social Welfare and Elderly Care Services, said that at present, China's population aging process is advancing steadily, and residential health care has become a new format of elderly care services, a new track for the silver economy, and a new carrier of people's livelihood and happiness. It is hoped that the entire industry will deepen its efforts in refined, professional and quality services, continue to improve the integrated service system of health management, rehabilitation care, life care, culture, tourism and leisure, and spiritual comfort, and promote the transformation of the travel and wellness industry from "supply" to "excellent supply".
The exchange meeting also officially released the "Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region's "14th Five-Year Plan" Elderly Care Industry Development Report" blue book jointly compiled by the Guangxi Health Industry Association and the China Social Welfare and Elderly Service Association. The book systematically combs the foundation, current situation, results and problems of the development of the elderly care industry in Guangxi since the "14th Five-Year Plan", puts forward ideas, goals and policy suggestions, and proposes to adhere to the principles of "securing the bottom line, leading by innovation, diversified linkage, and open cooperation", and through "strengthening the leader, supplementing the chain, and gathering groups" to promote the characteristic and branded development of the elderly care industry and accelerate Guangxi's transformation from a "senior care resource area" to a "strong elderly care industry area". (over)
