Name: Spotlight on China Tech: The Leap Into Every Day Futurism
Uploaded: 2025-12-02
Duration: 14 min 59 s
Description: China is at the forefront of a new wave of tech innovation aimed at elevating human well-being, accessibility, and connection. From the skies to the streets to the human body, pioneers from China’s most transformative tech sectors share how they are not just imagining the future but building it today.

China is at the forefront of a new wave of tech innovation aimed at elevating human well-being, accessibility, and connection. From the skies to the streets to the human body, pioneers from China’s most transformative tech sectors share how they are not just imagining the future but building it today.

Spotlight on China Tech: The Leap Into Every Day Futurism

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In this part of the world, China is riding high on a wave of tech innovation. What we used to imagine being built for skies, streets, or the human body. Uh, in the future, is actually already being used today. Joining me today are speakers from two pioneering companies in these sectors. Callenie is a senior vice president at Autoflight, which designs electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or as we know, Eveto. Yan Hua is director and CEO Everheart Medical Device, which makes artificial hearts. So please join me in welcoming them. Let's start with the sky. So Kellen, can you briefly explain to us what EV tolls are and how they're fundamentally different from, let's say helicopters. Oh, thank you, thank you. I'm very honored to be invited. The EVO stands for Electric vertical takeoff and landing. As you can see from this video, so it takes off like a helicopter and then fly like an airplane. It's 100% electric, electric, 100% electric, carbon zero. And it's a lot quieter compared with a helicopter and it's fully autonomous, you know, sometimes we need a pilot, but it's capable of fully autonomous flight. So it's vertical takeoff and landing. It doesn't need a runway, can be unmanned and can be piloted as well. Right. So what key factors do you think have prepared Chinese companies like, like Autoflight to become leading forces in this sector? First of all, China has a very good basis for the electric vehicle. So we've got a very mature technology, we've got a very powerful supply, and we've got a huge amount of talents actually accumulated during all the past 10 or 20 years of the EV. So that's our stretch. And then that can be all used to design and develop a good electronic vertical tele landing aircraft. Right. Let's move from the sky to the human body. So Hua, uh, your company makes artificial hearts, which in fact is a pump that's planted into human body. So how does it work? Yeah, um, yeah, actually, everybody knows that for decades, you know, the China innovation, um, especially in the healthcare market has been perceived as a cheap copycat, um, but now it's different. Um, China has made ourselves to the second largest developer of new drugs, including road curing cancer. And one of the most notable success we have made in medical device, in fact, is what I'm going to share with you with a short video about how we use artificial heart to cure the severe heart failures. So if you look at the screen, there's a video showing how it works. Uh, in fact, you know, um, you know, everybody knows that our heart, we have 4 chambers, we have left atrium. Right atrium, left ventricular, right, right ventricular. So when the heart fails, in fact, you know, the, our left ventricular was not able to pump enough blood to your body. So, um, actually our patient got to, you know, um, you know, eventually face a death because your body was starving for, you know, oxygen and the nutrition and the artificial heart. In fact, it's not a replacement of your heart. In fact, the professional name is left ventricular assisted device. So we have an assistant in middle of the name, meaning that it's actually build a bypass um blood flow to actually so the pump in fact, um, suck, you know, the blood from the tip of your left ventricular and the spin back to the aorta and the Go over to your body. So for that, you know, uh, sense, so it's not a replacement, it's in fact a support. So your company is one of the only two companies in the whole world that makes such advanced medical device. What key innovation do you think, um, enables you to stand shoulder to shoulder with international competitors? Yeah, that's a very good question. In fact, there is a lot of like perspective on difficulty to conquer, but I think one of the most remarkable thing we made in our design is that, you know, imagine this pump, basically it's a titanium pump. So, um it's actually spinning a very high speed. How to maintain that, you know, they can pump enough blood that healthy people need at the same time not damage your blood cells. That much. I think that's something that we um that's part of the major kind of the um technology barrier we conquered. So just for your information, ever for our products, in fact, we actually achieved the highest blood volume, which is 20 L per minute, which is like a double of our international tier at the lowest speed in the world, which is half of the speed of our international players. So, Actually, um, with that world record, we actually, uh, we are the first one to get approved in China. We are so far the one of the two, you know, brands, um, to get the destination therapy approval, which means that the patient can wear this product lifelong, right? Very very delicate balance to keep. So uh back to Kellen, uh, what are the most commercially viable and immediate, uh, use cases for Evitos? See, the whole purpose of this EB to actually transforming uh how goods are moving and how people are moving. So it's all about mobility. As you can see from this video, we also have emergency rescue, emergency response, and our main focus are actually like this, this video actually shows that the first world's first large scale to offshore oil platform transportation, actually transport like 200 to 300 kg of fresh food tools to the to the offshore oil platforms. And this actually video shows the world's first large scale. to cross city over land air express. So actually trans uh transporting the fresh food and also the high-end uh SF Express curate emails. So basically, that's all the uh user cases you can see, but our final game is to walk to the people's actual mobility to actually resolve the issues with traffic jams and all the other things, and to make sure that people are actually moving. As flexible as point to point in the future, but through the air, not over the land. So moving people as well as good. So how is design thinking embedded into your product development, considering the user experience, safety, and aesthetics? OK, so basically this uh actually is designed as what we call lift and cruise configuration. So basically it has 10 lifting motors and propellers and 3 pushers. And there were lots of redundancy designed in terms of providing the safety. For example, there's a very interesting factor called electronic parachute. So basically, why, why this aircraft is cruising like a bird, and then if it sort of encounters very strong crosswind. And then the lifting propellers will kick off immediately to actually make sure that the horses and then the pilot can actually land the aircraft wherever he likes as an emergency. This is only one example. Saty is. Um, so, uh, we're here a lot of talking these days about human machine, um, bio biosis. So symbiosis, what is your take on this symbiotic relationship where the body and the device actually work in partnership. We've, we've heard remarkable cases uh where your patients recover so well with the devices, they actually eventually they can remove the device. Yeah, that's a very good question. In fact, um, um, actually, unlike the other panelists, um, Mr. Xie's product, it's actually help humanity to extend, you know, or extended our, you know, reach to the outside world, uh, in fact, you know, our product, I guess everyone's in the healthcare products is in fact to help to reach inside of your body to more like a micro world. So when we talk about the symbiotic relationship, I think um as a healthcare practitioner, in fact, I think fundamental, first fundamental thing we need to resolve is, in fact, you know, the how to make sure that titanium pump actually can coexist with your body. Just for your information, um, without, uh, before actually the artificial heart came into board, I think people may understand that for severe. heart failure patient, the only solution is to get a heart transplant, but I think maybe a lot of you probably know that, you know, the heart transplant patients after procedures, they're gonna take the anti-rejection drugs for a lifelong time, which is extremely painful because to actually make sure the body doesn't attack the foreign, uh, you know, the heart organ. Uh, but with our artificial heart, um, you don't have to take any, you know, anti-rejection drugs at all. How we do that, number one, we will be very carefully choosing the right material. We choose the titanium, which is so far has proved to be the most stable and the most bio compatible um metals with a long term blood contact test. And also on top of that, over this titanium pump, we we actually cover all the surface. With a special coating, which is our own design, very original, one of a kind, and just imagine it like a ring coat, right? So when your blood cell pass through the surface. So actually that proof it um you can pass through um very smoothly without sticking on it because if you stick on it, in fact, that's gonna be a risk to cause, you know, the um thrombo thrombosis, which eventually will be stroke. And on top of that, in fact, another problem we should resolve is that how synchronize. So in fact, early this morning, you know, another speaker talked about, you know, amplifier idea, right? So our artificial heart in fact the work as an amplifier. So basically it's um so that the the the the pump by itself with our programming algorithm, they can, um, you know, sense of very weak and the bioelectricity signal and amplify it into a 5 times bigger, um 10 times bigger, your heartbeat, exactly, exactly, thank you. Um, so I think that's, that's remarkable. And I'll speak to your question about, you say a lot of the patient has been removed. In fact, I have, I do have a video to share some of your, um, are real patients, and some of them actually have been still wearing our products. Some of them have been removed and the subject is removed. In fact, you say that this the first patient in fact is from Xinjiang, he's actually wearing our product for 3 years. He is now subject to remove. And the reason is factor behind that, you know, why we can get him to remove eventually is in fact we our our product design enable it to create a real possible, you know, the blood uh blood flow, which means that you can feel the pulse, not only feel the heartbeat, which is not, nothing like you have seen, you know, Iron Man movie, right? Um, so and that kind of the, you know, pulse is very important because that give your, you know, Cardiac tissue and your muscle, your vessels, a regular press and like a massage or exercise to make sure the long term the electricity of the vessels and also give the patient a great comfort of the psychological, uh, you know, kind of comfort as patient can feel. I'm still have piece of my humanity in my body. I'm not turning myself into a silicon light, have human dignity and it just shows uh devices or machines can. Uh, enable instead of replacing, uh, our body parts. So Kellen, looking ahead 3 or 5 years, um, how do you envision, uh, technology eventually transforming the way people and goods move? Uh, for example, like in the Greater Bay Area, this is a perfect example because we have done the Shenzhen to Zhuhai trial route about a year ago. So, uh, spending only 20 minutes, uh, so we, we can travel from Shenzhen to Zhuhai, but instead, if you, if you go by rail, it takes you about 2.5 hours plus and this Greater Bay Area is is is a perfect example. Because they actually connect with so many busy cities with so huge population and very good economic growth. So, uh, in the future, maybe 3 to 5 years when the authority actually releases all the certificates and when, when our units or our competitors unit, they are actually being tried in many of the user studies and user cases, and then we finally moved into commercialization. And then you will see probably you can envision like thousands of this uh like EB2 aircraft flying above our head and and why very safely managed and monitor the noise, yes, yes, this is a very interesting question because we have measured it one of the good thing about this EVO, the electric vertical takeoff is because it doesn't have generators. have engines. So basically only the motor spins, so it doesn't have engine noise. So compared with traditional helicopter, we measured like over like 100 m distance in the multiopter mode is only like less than 70 decibels. And meanwhile, the, the, the helicopter is like up to about 95 to 100 decibels. There's about like 25 to 30 decibels less, that means. 1000 times less. So comparing with traditional helicopters. And during the cruising, so for example, if you cruise above like 200 m above your head, and basically on the ground, you barely notice because the noise level can be as low as 45 decibels. So basically you cannot hear or you cannot feel. So this is the good thing about the the the quietness about this EB, yeah. Thank you. Uh, big thank you to both of you, uh, from redefining mobility to restoring the rhythm of life. The future is already here. Thank you so much. Thank you.