Wearing VR glasses, sitting in a rhythm chair, and trying on a smart ring: AI health experience center debuts in Changping

Beijing News (Reporter Zhang Jianlin) — Recently, the Chaochao AI Healthy Lifestyle Experience Center opened in Beijing's Changping Future Science City. It is China's first immersive AI healthy lifestyle experience space open to the public, featuring multiple functional areas such as exercise therapy, traditional Chinese medicine wellness, nutritional immunity, home health care, and health management.

On the afternoon of September 28, many residents came to the experience center to try it out. Some put on VR glasses to stretch their bodies and release stress in preset scenarios; others sat on rhythmic health chairs, which generate regular vibrations through the device so that the body receives a certain form of passive exercise training.

A smart wearable product, the SupRing, also drew attention. The ring links to an app and, through continuous collection and analysis of sleep, exercise and other data, lets users understand their daily condition more intuitively. The ring was jointly developed by the Tsinghua Changgung Hospital AI Health Joint R&D Center and the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Medical) · Beijing, and can provide users with all-time, all-domain, all-dimensional, whole-process proactive health care.

The Chaochao AI Healthy Lifestyle Experience Center was built by Beijing Huayi Zhijin Health Technology Group. Wang Xiaobin, chairman of the group, said the experience center seeks to answer the question: "When health management no longer begins with 'feeling unwell,' and when AI can understand personal lifestyle habits and give personalized advice, what will health become?"

According to the National Health "15th Five-Year Plan" and the Implementation Opinions on Promoting and Regulating the Development of "AI + Healthcare" Applications, new business forms such as health management and rehabilitation and convalescence should be developed, intelligent chronic disease management and personal health profiles should be established, and personalized, health-science-based intelligent dietary and exercise recommendations should be provided.

The experience center is precisely a pioneering exploration of policy moving from documents to reality. At the regional level, Changping District is accelerating its AI + healthcare layout. The local pharmaceutical and health industry has reached the trillion-yuan level, gathering more than 2,800 enterprises, and a 1-kilometer transformation circle of "laboratory—pilot testing—clinical application" is being built. The experience center connects top-level policies, cutting-edge technologies and residents' daily needs, becoming part of the regional industrial ecosystem.

In terms of the industrial ecosystem, the experience center plays a dual role of "application scenario empowerment" and "consumer market traction": on the one hand, it provides real testing scenarios for AI health technology companies to accelerate iteration; on the other hand, it directly reaches consumers, feeds demand back to the industrial side, forms a cycle of "R&D—application—feedback—iteration," and explores multi-party co-construction involving medical care, health care, scientific research, technology and business.

She said the experience center also promotes three major changes in health management: from "passive treatment" to "proactive health," from "one size fits all" to "one person, one strategy," and from "in-hospital diagnosis and treatment" to "out-of-hospital health care." Its services cover exercise, traditional Chinese medicine, home care, sleep and other links, forming a closed loop of "assessment—intervention—monitoring—feedback" and enhancing the continuity and convenience of health management.

Editor: Zhang Lei

Proofreader: Jia Ning