(Invest in China) GE Healthcare Wuxi Base celebrates its 30th anniversary and releases innovative results to the world

China News Service, Wuxi, Jiangsu, November 13 (Sun Quan, Tang Juan) GE Healthcare, a global large-scale medical equipment and medical solutions company, held the release of innovative results and the 30th anniversary celebration of its Wuxi base in Wuxi, Jiangsu on the 13th.

GE Healthcare's Wuxi base was founded in 1996 and has grown into the company's largest ultrasound and probe R&D and production base in the world. At present, the base has shipped a total of 2.8 million units/sets of equipment to more than 100 countries and regions around the world.

Over the past 30 years, the base has continued to consolidate the localization of the supply chain, built a supporting ecosystem with a radius of 200 kilometers, and driven the coordinated development of more than 400 upstream and downstream enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta. The base business also continues to extend to the high end of the value chain.

Philip Ratcliffe, president and CEO of GE Healthcare's global advanced imaging diagnosis and treatment business, said that the Wuxi base is an important hub of GE Healthcare's global manufacturing and innovation network. While enhancing the resilience of the global supply chain, it also continues to promote China's innovative achievements to the world.

GE Healthcare will accelerate the construction of the ultrasound Greater China headquarters project in Wuxi, building a headquarters building of approximately 11,000 square meters, and a customer experience and R&D co-creation space of more than 1,500 square meters. It will lay out a "three centers in one circle" to create a local high-end medical device ecosystem and build three major centers of innovation, customer service, and customer experience.

Six medical devices developed by the Wuxi team and integrated with global resources were launched at the event. Song Weiqun, global executive vice president of GE Healthcare and president and CEO of Greater China, said that GE Healthcare will continue to leverage the advantages of "global resources + Chinese innovation" in the future, accelerate high-end intelligent manufacturing and "AI + medical" innovation, and work with industry chain partners to promote more co-creation results originating from Wuxi and integrating global wisdom to serve China and benefit the world.