Shanghai University of Engineering Science Forum Explores the Longevity Era and AI: How to Build a Sustainable Social Security System

On October 31, the 17th "Frontier Issues in Social Security" Summit Forum and Shanghai Graduate Academic Forum was held at Shanghai University of Engineering Science. With the theme "The Longevity Era and Artificial Intelligence: Building a Sustainable Social Security System," this year's forum focused on the relationship between population aging, the development of artificial intelligence, and the construction of the social security system, and featured keynote reports, roundtable forums, thematic sub-forums, and young scholars and graduate student forums. A Xinmin Evening News reporter noted that the forum also hosted an industry-education integration innovation achievement exhibition, bringing together nearly 10 products developed by Shanghai University of Engineering Science in the field of digital-intelligent health care and student science and innovation projects, while industry-academia cooperation partners jointly displayed nearly 20 digital health care products in categories such as intelligent care, functional monitoring, and emotional companionship. Lou Yongqi, President of Shanghai University of Engineering Science, introduced the university's social security discipline's achievements in talent cultivation and decision-making consultation, as well as its educational practice of promoting interdisciplinary integration and industry-education integration through the three-rotor approach of "engineering × management × design," expressing the hope that this forum would serve as a bond to gather wisdom from academia and industry, promote the transformation of research results, and contribute the wisdom and strength of "SUES" to building a sustainable social security system. In the keynote report session, Professor Wang Hong, Dean of China Europe International Business School, Chair of the Academic Committee of the CEIBS Institute for Social Security and Pension Finance, and Director of the Shanghai Social Security Research Center, discussed the combination of digital technology and health industry development under the title "Research on the High-Quality Development Strategy and Implementation Path of the Digital-Intelligent Health Industry." Professor Yue Jinglun of Sun Yat-sen University delivered a report titled "The Crisis of Social Insurance and the Prospects of the Social Security System," offering reflections from the perspective of institutional sustainable development. Chen Yuebin, a second-level inspector of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, focused on community elderly care services under the title "The Paradigm Revolution of Community Embedded Elderly Care." Li Peishang, Chairman of Mednovo Medical Technology Group, discussed the relationship between medical technology and elderly care services in the report "Longevity Is Not a Burden, the End of Technology Is Care: Medical Innovation and Dignified Elderly Care in the AI Era." Professor Shi Jianyong, Director of the Silver Economy Research Center of Shanghai University of Engineering Science, delivered a report on "Thoughts and Countermeasures for the High-Quality Development of Shanghai's Silver Economy." According to reports, the forum received nearly 200 academic papers from scholars at more than 60 universities nationwide, including Fudan University, Renmin University of China, Sichuan University, Nanjing University, Jinan University, Southwest University, Ocean University of China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shanghai Normal University, Shandong University, China University of Political Science and Law, and Shanghai University of Engineering Science. After expert review by the forum's academic committee, a total of 70 papers won awards at this year's forum, including 3 first prizes, 8 second prizes, 14 third prizes, and 45 excellence awards. The graduate student forum set up four special sessions on pension insurance, medical insurance and health management, elderly care services, and social welfare and social assistance, providing a platform for doctoral and master's students to present research results and engage in academic exchange. Facing the longevity era and the new situation of artificial intelligence development, the social security discipline at Shanghai University of Engineering Science will continue to focus on issues such as elderly care security, elderly care services, long-term care insurance, and the silver economy, and to study the new opportunities brought by technological application as well as issues such as institutional fairness, data security, and technology ethics. This industry-education integration achievement exhibition provides vivid real-world samples for social security research. Disciplinary research is grounded in industrial scenarios, continuously exploring differentiated supply paths for intelligent elderly care, promoting digital technology to better serve older adults, and helping build a more equitable and sustainable elderly care security system.