Prof. Zheng Kaixuan Invited to Attend and Co-chair the 11th Asia Pacific Global Summit on Healthcare
On May 8-9, the 11th Asia Pacific Global Summit on Healthcare was held in Tokyo, Japan. Experts and scholars from countries and regions such as Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania gathered in Tokyo, Japan to discuss the challenges and countermeasures to health issues in the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.
The summit focused on major health issues such as medical safety, healthy lifestyle intervention and chronic disease prevention, nursing education, and obesity prevention. Zheng Kaixuan, professor from the School of Economics and director of the National Institute of Health and Population Ageing, was invited by the organizing committee to be one of the co-chairs of the summit. He also delivered an academic report on the campaign to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and reduce its economic burden.
Prof. Zheng Kaixuan pointed out in the report that the high incidence of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, high medical costs and other heavy disease-caused burdens pose unprecedented health and economic challenges for modern human society. In China, for example, the number of patients diagnosed with chronic diseases has exceeded 260 million, and the incidence of chronic diseases among the elderly is as high as 92%. As early as 2010, the cost of health care for chronic diseases in China had reached 1,291.077 billion yuan, accounting for 70% of the total national health expenditure. Developed countries such as Australia are also facing enormous health and economic challenges brought about by chronic diseases. A large number of medical researches have shown that unhealthy lifestyles such as lack of exercise have become an important risk factor for the high incidence of chronic diseases. Therefore, promoting healthy lifestyle interventions such as encouraging more exercise is undoubtedly the best coping strategy for preventing chronic diseases and reducing economic burden. Zheng’s report was highly regarded by experts and scholars attending the conference. He also conducted extensive exchanges with international experts on the promotion of research in health economy at the South China Business College.
Three High Schools in Guangzhou Honored as SCBC’s High-quality Source of Students
On May 14, Executive Vice President Lai Zhili led a delegation to visit Guangzhou Nanwu High School, Guangzhou NO.1 High School, and Guangzhou No. 65 High School where recognition ceremonies were held to honor these high schools as“SCBC’s High-quality Source of Students”.
At the respective meeting with the principals of the three high schools, Mr. Lai Zhili introduced the past and present of South China Business College and the characteristics of education. Mr. Lai Zhili expressed his appreciation to this fact that for a long time, many outstanding students from the high schools have been enrolled to SCBC from the three high schools. He hoped to further strengthen exchanges with the high schools through the platform of high-quality student source. He believed that this kind of exchanges would encourage more outstanding students to apply for South China Business College.
The principals respectively introduced the development and achievements of the three high schools. They expressed their intention to further cooperate with SCBC in different areas, for example, the career education for high school students. They also talked with Mr. Lai about the publicity work for SCBC’s enrollment campaign this year and other forms of cooperation.
The visit has strengthened the ties between SCBC and the three high schools and promoted the connection and support between university education and secondary education. In the future, SCBC will further improve the career education of high school students, enhance cooperation with high schools, and explore new models of talent training so as to cultivate together more innovative professionals for the country.