On December 7th, Chen Li, Vice Dean of the School of Design at Jianghan University, Qi Jiaojiao, Department Head, Ai Qing, Director, and Teacher Xu Xiaoyan led a student team to visit the Retlife Hubei factory for an exchange activity. Huang Kaitang, Chairman of Retlife, and Shi Zegao, General Manager of the Hubei factory, attended the symposium. Both parties engaged in in-depth discussions on future deep cooperation in industry-university-research collaboration, and reached multiple cooperation intentions centered around the design innovation needs in the rehabilitation medical field. This exchange marked the beginning of a new chapter in talent cultivation, design practice, and industry empowerment between the school and the enterprise.

Focus on industry-academia integration, jointly draw a blueprint for cooperation

    At the exchange meeting, Shi Zegao, General Manager of Retlife Rehabilitation's Hubei factory, warmly welcomed the arrival of teachers and students from the School of Design at Jianghan University. He pointed out that as an innovative enterprise in the domestic rehabilitation medical field, Retlife Rehabilitation has always been committed to enhancing product competitiveness through technological innovation and design empowerment, and the injection of design talent from universities will inject new momentum into the company's innovative development.

    Mr. Huang Kaitang, the chairman, systematically introduced the company's development history, core business layout, and future strategic planning, highlighting the direction of the corporate VI system upgrade and the planning blueprint of the Banqiao Health Care Center. He emphasized his expectation for deep cooperation with the School of Design at Jianghan University in areas such as brand visual design, product appearance innovation, and health care space planning, to jointly create a rehabilitation medical design case with industry benchmark significance.

Field visits to experience the forefront of the industry

    Accompanied by General Manager Shi Zegao, the team of teachers and students visited the intelligent production line, rehabilitation equipment research and development center, and product exhibition hall in succession. Through on-site observation and explanations by technical personnel, the teachers and students gained a deep understanding of the entire process of rehabilitation equipment from design and research to mass production, and personally experienced the interactive design and user-friendly functions of intelligent rehabilitation equipment. Chen Li, Vice Dean of the Design College, said, "This field research has made us deeply aware of the value of design in the medical and health industry. In the future, we will combine corporate needs, deeply integrate design thinking with engineering technology, and cultivate more practical and versatile talents."

The three major cooperation directions have been implemented, facilitating industrial upgrading

    After thorough communication, both parties have preliminarily identified three major directions for cooperation: corporate VI system upgrade: the Design Institute will establish a special team to create a professional and international visual identity system for Retlife; product appearance design optimization: focusing on the aging-friendly and intelligent needs of rehabilitation equipment, conducting innovative research in industrial design; Banqiao Health Care Center planning: collaborating on spatial functional layout, barrier-free design, and humanistic care scene construction, to help build a smart health care demonstration project.

School-enterprise collaboration to cultivate new design talents

    The in-depth exchange with the School of Design at Jianghan University marks a significant milestone in Retlife Rehabilitation's advancement of its "industry-education-research" three-in-one strategy. Chairman Huang Kaitang emphasized during the symposium: "By integrating cutting-edge design thinking from universities with the industrialization experience of enterprises, we will jointly build an innovative design platform in the field of rehabilitation medicine, accelerating the transformation of technological achievements into market applications." It is reported that both parties will sign a strategic cooperation agreement in the near future and establish a joint working group to facilitate project implementation. Retlife Rehabilitation will seize this opportunity to continuously deepen the industry-academia-research cooperation ecosystem, enhance product added value through design innovation, and propel the rehabilitation industry towards high-end and humanized development.