According to the results of the second national sample survey of the handicapped, there are about 12.33 million visually impaired people in China, which include about 7.33 million low vision patients.
On April 26th, the Assistive Devices and Elderly Care Rehabilitation Exchanges of the Care & Rehabilitation Expo China 2019, which took its fourth station into Shaanxi, following its last three successful openings in Shandong, Henan and Taiwan, was successfully held at Boffo L Hotel in Xi’an.
In western China, multilevel and diversified assistive devices for the rehabilitation of the elderly, the disabled and the sick or injured persons are a demand to be met due to the underdeveloped medical services and rehabilitation industry as well as severe aging resulted from uneven economic growth, large-scale labor outflows and other factors. As the massive health industry was identified as a strategic emphasis in the “13th Five-Year Plan” (2016-2020)