In the afternoon of August 30, Zhang Xinqi, deputy secretary of CPC Qingdao Committee, mayor of Qingdao, met a delegation led by TYUMA HIROKI, director of Japan-China Association of Medical Welfare Personnel Exchanges of Japan. Luan Xin, vice mayor of Qingdao, and responsible officials from Qingdao Bureau of Commerce, Qingdao Bureau of Health and Laoshan District Government, ENDO MASAYICHI, chairman of Japan Long-life Holding Company and Zhang Jainhua, chairman of Hiking, attended the meeting.
During the meeting, the mayor said Qingdao municipal government attached great importance to the development of eldercare and was planning to build an international eldercare area in Laoshan District integrating high end feature medical care institutions and eldercare agencies and the relevant high end eldercare institutions and enterprises are welcomed to make investment and establish their facilitiesTYUMA HIROKI said Japan Long-life Holding Company and Hiking Group have successfully operated together a high end eldercare institution and he believed the related enterprises and institutions from the two countries could further deepen exchanges and communications and expand the cooperation in the elderly care sector.
In 2012, Japan Long-life Holding Company and Hiking Group established Hiking Long-life International Eldercare Center, which targets high and middle end membership elderly care and becomes the only Sino- Japan eldercare joint-venture in China.
