"Qingdao is a beautiful city with a perfect medical and health industry system, and we are expecting Qingdao to play a leading role in the construction of a healthy city, and we welcome you to come to Qingdao in June to attend the Global Health Forum of Boao Forum for Asia." Today, at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2019 "Aging and Health" sub-forum, Margaret Chan, Director-General Emeritus of the World Health Organization, Advisory Board Member of the Boao Forum for Asia and President of Global Health Forum of Boao Forum for Asia, said in an interview. Qingdao also sent an invitation to the world at the forum - "Welcome to Qingdao, and we look forward to discussing health again at the Global Health Forum in June this year."

This afternoon, Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2019 held a sub-forum on "Ageing and Health", and the city promo "Qingdao - Amazing the world " on the screen did amaze the audience. "The Global Health Forum of Boao Forum for Asia is a comprehensive platform combining politics and business, high-end dialogue and practical cooperation. Choosing Qingdao as the venue for the Global Health Forum is based on the advantages and development potential of Qingdao in the construction of a healthy city, and we expect that Qingdao will play a leading role in the construction of a healthy city." Margaret Chan said.

The city of Qingdao made a key presentation at the sub-forum. "Qingdao, with a beautiful scenery, enjoys the reputation of being the capital of brand, the capital of vitality, the capital friendly to the elderly, and is selected into the top 10 livable cities, the top 10 cities with the most happiness and the first annual model city of healthy China. At present, Qingdao is accelerating the construction of an open, modern, dynamic and fashionable international metropolis, and the Global Health Forum of Boao Forum for Asia to be held in Qingdao in June this year will help promote the clustering and landing of global resources in the city, promote the development of the city and regional big health industry, and thus further promote the sustainable development of the regional economic belt centered on Qingdao."

The main topics of the sub-forum were "How to deal with the challenges of healthy aging" and "How to provide solutions by institutions engaged in public health and related research". Qingdao City highlighted the general idea of "government guidance, policy support, multi-participation and integrated planning" for healthy aging, as well as how to raise healthy aging to a strategic level of overall planning and actively integrate it into the implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging and the strategic layout of Healthy China. At present, Qingdao is striving for creating a national region medical center and a famous international health and wellness city, building a number of medical and health industry clusters and famous brands, promoting the opening up of the health industry to the world, further optimizing the business environment, and building an industrial ecology of win-win cooperation.

At the meeting, Qingdao also issued invitations to industry leaders, famous entrepreneurs, experts and scholars in the field of health at home and abroad, expecting more health industry enterprises to invest and develop in Qingdao, to form a medical and health care industry system covering the whole industry chain, the whole life cycle, with distinctive features and reasonable layout, so as to stimulate the development of healthy aging service system.

It is reported that the Global Health Forum of Boao Forum for Asia will be held in Qingdao from June 10 to 12, with the theme of "Health Beyond Health – In the Year of Sustainable Development 2030". The conference will focus on the topic of "Health for All", discuss hot issues in health-related fields, gather wisdom from all sides and promote global cooperation.