Twice a year, China hosts one of the largest medical equipment shows in the world. From November 1 to 5, the China Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) counted its 54th in the city called Chengdu in Sichuan province, once a capital of the war-time China and currently the centre of science, technology, commerce, trade, finance, transportation, and communication, where as many as 10 million people reside. As our sole agent for the professional medical products in the Chinese market, Shainghai Aixun Medical Equipment Co., Ltd (hereinafter called Aixun) had their booth there to show off our TM-2655P and TM-2430, as well as to introduce some of our other line-ups.

The show was indeed huge. There were nine large halls fanning out, seven of which were fully occupied by the exhibition. So many people – exhibitors, vendors, buyers, manufacturers, end-users – to the degree that all of our mobile phones became useless. Any kind of product related to Medicine and Health was there, ranging from minute surgical tools to such big machines as MRI (I’d never seen a real one before!) or even ambulances. The areas were divided by either product category or provenance of the exhibitors. Aixun’s booth was found in the Shanghai group.

As with many other exhibitors of blood pressure monitors, Aixun provided free demonstration for visitors. TM-2655P was very popular as usual. On the other hand, there still seemed to remain much room for efforts and improvements for TM-2430. Hopefully, the Chinese version of Dr. Pro (software for TM-2430), which will soon become available, will help the product be more accepted by and prevail among Chinese users. We continue to see a great potential of the market for ABPM, and for TM-2430.

Although actual samples were not present, Aixun also prepared fliers for some of our other, newer products. Above all, UM-101 and AD-6228 especially attracted people’s attention and interest. The former, auscultatory sphygmomanometer that uses a digital display instead of real mercury, is a very unique product of A&D, and naturally elicited great excitement from many visitors. The latter is our latest weight-and-height measuring scale (whose English version is yet to come). People apparently liked its smart features and appearance.

In five days, the total number of visitors who came to this exhibition hoping to find new products and business opportunities reached at least 150,000, and more than 1,500 of them turned up at Aixun’s booth, where they received approximately 120 sales leads.

Finally, I would like to express my acknowledgement once again to Mr. Chen, Mr. Lee, and Ms. Zhan of Aixun for their continuous efforts to support us, and to all those who visited their booth and showed interest in the products. Thank you very much!