Chongqing, China --- Kick-Off Meeting of Honghu Orthopedic Surgical Robot Training was successfully held in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. Honghu Orthopedic Surgical Robot (hereinafter referred to as "Honghu") is completely developed by MicroPort OrthoBot (Suzhou）Co., Ltd independently., a subsidiary of Shanghai MicroPort MedBot (Group) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "MicroPort^® MedBot^®"). ProfessorDan ZHANG, Deputy Dean of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, ProfessorHong LIU, Deputy Director of Academic Affairs Office, ProfessorWei HUANG, Director of Orthopedics Department, ProfessorYing HE, Deputy Director of Department of Clinical Skills Center, Haitao ZHANG, National Training Director of MicroPort^® MedBot^®, Lin YUAN, National Sales Director, -Dexin ZHAO, Manager of Training Department, and all the medical staff of Orthopedics Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University attended the ceremony.

The launching of Honghu Orthopedic Robot Training in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University is the first attempt of MicroPort^® Honghu Orthopedic Robot in the top three teaching hospitals in western China. It has filled up the gap of digital orthopedic training in the south-western regions of China, aiming at raising the regional diagnosis and treatment level, and setting up examples for medical-engineering combination. With the joint efforts of hospitals and MicroPort^® MedBot^®, the Chinese-developed orthopedic robots will surely iterate rapidly and innovate continuously, so that China's high-end intelligent products will benefit the vaster number of patients.

Ms. Haiying Yu, General Manager of MicroPort OrthoBot (Suzhou）Co., Ltd., said: "The kick-off meeting and the establishment of the training center for Honghu Orthopedic Robot held in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University are of great significance to our company. It embodies the further strengthening of our training and service system. As an important training center in Southwest China with Honghu Orthopedic Robot as the core, it provides a more convenient experience and an opportunity to operate Honghu Orthopedic Robot equipment at a closer distance. Meanwhile, it also gives medical workers a broader learning and communication platform for rapid integration, and displaying robot solutions more comprehensively and deeply, so that surgical robots can quickly empower the intellegent medical care and benefit more patients!"

Mr. Yu Liu, Chief Commercial Officer of MicroPort^® MedBot^® said: "We believe that through the Training Program of MicroPort^® Honghu surgical robots, we will build a robot training course system with the Chinese characteristics and invite more experts and scholars in the field of orthopedics to experience, understand and learn about Honghu Orthopedic Surgical Robot. This will accelerate the maturity and promotion of the Chinese-developed surgical robots in clinical application, and give more experts the opportunity to apply Honghu Orthopedic Surgical Robot in clinical surgery, and provide more precise, intelligent, efficient and inclusive medical robot solutions to more patients.”