As a parallel forum on the home appliance theme of the 14th Healthy China Forum, the “2022 China Home Appliance Health Trends Summit Forum” was held in Beijing on the afternoon of July 28. Associations and business representatives from the health and home appliance industries gathered together to conduct in-depth exchanges on building exchanges and interactions between home appliances and the health industry and the development trend of healthy home appliances.
“China’s home appliance industry keenly captures the new changes in market demand, focusing on health as a distinct main line of product upgrades.” Wang Lei, Secretary-General of China Household Electrical Appliances Association, pointed out in his speech at the forum that health issues have always been a technological innovation area that China’s home appliance industry has paid close attention to, and health has become an important upgrade direction for China’s home appliance industry to seek high-quality development. “To achieve a healthy upgrade, it is not enough to rely on the home appliance industry’s own efforts. It is necessary to form a new development format that is deeply integrated across industries and fields, in order to truly empower a healthy and beautiful life with technology.”
Professor Guo Qing, chairman of the Health Management Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and chairman of the Health Care Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, also pointed out that the longest time in a person’s life is still at home, and the home life style can best collect residents’ health Status information, through smart home appliances and wearable devices, people’s sleep status, exercise status, nutritional status, stress status, etc. can be tracked and tested. He believes that in the future, home appliances, especially smart home appliances with information collection functions, will play a more important role in health management services for the entire population and life cycle. Ding Gangqiang, director of the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, put forward suggestions on the in-depth integration of home appliances and the health industry to strengthen the health leadership of leading enterprises, so that the home appliance industry can develop more products with healthy elements. He particularly mentioned promoting the application and promotion of new technologies for healthy cooking, continuously launching innovative products such as automatic frying pans and air fryers, and further accelerating the optimization and upgrading of the food nutrition industry in combination with the new needs of Chinese residents for nutrition and health.
A number of home appliance companies shared their experience in integrating with the health industry at the forum. Haier Air Conditioning introduced the iteration of healthy technology from self-cleaning to sterilization and self-cleaning to air washing, and shared the experience of building healthy air solutions for users in different scenarios. Midea Group introduced the research results on the technical aspects of oil and fat reduction, hazard reduction and nutrition retention in the cooking process, and how to build an intelligent healthy diet consisting of health perception, health service, catering service and health closed loop. management system. Relevant persons in charge of brands such as BSH and AUX also introduced their achievements in the field of healthy home appliances.
The “White Paper on China’s Home Appliance Health Trends (2022)” jointly compiled by “Electrical Appliances” magazine and Isaer was also released at this forum. The “White Paper” divides home life scenarios into six scenarios: healthy air, healthy washing, healthy water, healthy kitchen, healthy environment cleaning, and personal health care, and comprehensively sorts out the relevant health development trends in each scenario.
“At present, the status quo of the implementation of health functions in home appliances has developed from a point-like independent product health function to a face-like healthy life scene. In the future, home appliance companies will build smart home appliances in the smart home industry. The perfect, personalized health management flow must be established on the basis of the continuous implementation of the scene and the continuous maturity.” Chen Li, deputy secretary-general of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association and editor-in-chief of “Electrical Appliances” magazine, pointed out that China’s home appliance industry A critical period has come, and attention must be paid to the application and implementation of health technology in the home appliance industry.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Qin
Editor/Tian Ye