Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Healthy China has become a national strategy, and the health industry has become one of the strategic emerging industries. Among the first batch of national health pilot cities in the country, Yantai has established the goal of creating a 100 billion-level health industry and building an international life science innovation demonstration zone and has issued a series of policy documents to support the innovation and development of the health industry. In line with the national strategy and regional goals, Binzhou Medical University has set the development of rehabilitation discipline as part of Binzhou Medical University (BMU)'s one advantage and two specialties development strategies, and strives to promote the rehabilitation discipline to the first-class level in China. Rehabilitation Engineering Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the “Institute”) is a high-tech research and development platform, led by an academician of the New Zealand Academy of Engineering, integrating production, study, research and application.
The Institute integrates the superior resources of the academicians of the New Zealand Academy of Engineering and relevant domestic research institutes, combines the abundant resources of BMU’s superior discipline of clinical medicine, and closely focuses on introduction and innovation of key technologies on high-end intelligent rehabilitation assistant devices, such as reconfigurable exoskeleton robots, surgical robots, and intelligent prostheses based on EMG and EEG system. It plans to establish a new technology research and development institution in our city that integrates high-level talent exchange, joint research, industry-university-research cooperation, technological achievement transfer, and pilot-scale transformation, creating a new export-oriented highland for regional technological innovation and achievement transformation.
Facing the existing industrial advantages and strategic emerging industries in Shandong Province, the Institute actively promotes the formation of a technological innovation community with interlinked development concepts, smooth flow of elements, interlinked scientific and technological facilities, integration of innovation chains, and smooth personnel exchanges, and explores the technology innovation collaboration mechanism of joint research and joint talent cultivation to build a collaborative innovation ecosystem integrating talents, scientific research, and projects, create a core engine and source of key common technology transfer, promote the industrialization of applied technologies, and provide various application services and solution consulting services for industrial enterprises, fostering and forming a number of innovative industrial clusters in intelligent rehabilitation subdivisions.
