Advanced tech to shape healthcare industry fortunes

Advanced technologies including 3D printing, 5G and artificial intelligence will become an inevitable trend of China's health industry whose market value will reach 20 trillion yuan ($2.84 trillion) by 2030, an industry expert said.

Luo Jun, secretary-general of the International Health Industry Forum, a Beijing-based think tank comprising experts from 11 countries focusing on healthcare industry promotion, said on Wednesday that China's healthcare industry chain still lags behind those in the developed countries. Thus, the potential is huge.

"The healthcare industry chain is complete in both upstream and downstream sectors in European countries and the United States. However, it's still at the beginning stage here," he said.