Recently, the authoritative mainstream media “People’s Daily Online” conducted an in-depth report on Fanbaolai Company. In the article “Ningbo Qianwan New Area: Silver Economy Activates New Momentum for Emerging Industries”, the reporter visited Fanbaolai’s manufacturing workshop in Ningbo Qianwan New Area, using their camera to capture scenes of workers working overtime to produce smart suspended care beds. This not only represents high recognition of the enterprise’s technical strength and industrial capabilities but also injects confidence and momentum into the currently rapidly rising “silver economy.”

As an enterprise deeply engaged in the silver economy, possessing dozens of independent domestic and international patents, and producing innovative age-friendly products, Fanbaolai has precisely responded to the practical needs of the national “Active Response to Population Aging” strategy with its “suspended care bed.” Behind it lies a deep insight into the nursing difficulties of the disabled and semi-disabled elderly population, and it is also a microcosm of the innovative development of China’s elderly care industry.

Behind the People’s Daily Focus: “Dual Recognition” of Smart Manufacturing and Age-Friendly Innovation

As a national key news media, People’s Daily Online’s visit to Fanbaolai involved not only a practical understanding of workshop production realities and product technical features but also a deep dive into how the enterprise participates in and promotes the innovative development of the elderly care industry through technological innovation.

During the on-site visit by the People’s Daily Online reporter, Fanbaolai demonstrated numerous innovative patented functions, such as “in-bed bathing,” “breathable turning,” “suspended care,” and “automatic leg and back movement,” in an intuitive and easy-to-understand manner. The camera captured the busy yet orderly production state of frontline workers, the suspended care beds in the workshop ready to be shipped to various locations, and a portrayal of Chinese enterprises pioneering new paths in elderly care technology within the silver economy.

Corporate Responsibility Under the National Strategy: Aging is Not a “Crisis,” but an “Opportunity”

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, by the end of 2024, China’s population aged 60 and above had exceeded 310 million, accounting for 22% of the national total population; the population aged 65 and above reached 220 million, marking China’s entry into a “moderately aging society.” The next 10 years will be a critical “window period” for responding to population aging.

In 2025, the “State Council’s Opinions on Developing the Silver Economy to Enhance the Well-being of Elderly People” officially came into effect, clearly proposing to promote innovation in elderly care service products and encourage the development of new technologies and models such as smart nursing and intelligent wellness care. It is precisely against this era background that Fanbaolai firmly invests in R&D for smart age-friendly products, taking the lead in entering the “suspended care bed” track, using technological innovation to assist the high-quality development of the aging cause.

Solving the Nursing Difficulties of Disabled Elderly, Starting with “Suspension Technology”

According to the “Fifth Sample Survey on the Living Conditions of China’s Urban and Rural Elderly,” the current population of disabled and semi-disabled elderly in China exceeds 40 million. Tight care resources and heavy family burdens have become widespread social issues. For long-term bedridden elderly, difficulties such as “hard to bathe, hard to turn over, hard to stay breathable, hard to exercise” are almost universal phenomena.

Fanbaolai’s smart suspended care bed is developed precisely by focusing on these major challenges:

In-Bed Bathing: Through self-developed smart suspension lifting technology, the side swing arms can automatically rise, and the turning pad steadily separates the body from the bed. After replacing the mattress with a bathtub, it descends. Compared to the previous method of moving the person out of bed and carrying them to the bathroom, this process is safer and more convenient for the elderly, requires almost no physical effort from caregivers, and breaks through the difficulties of bathing bedridden elderly safely.

Soft Breathable Turning: Suspends and lifts the elderly person, the U-shaped turning cloth wraps softly according to the human body’s physiological curve, using a slow and gentle lateral turning method to effectively increase back breathability, reduce pressure sore risk, and enhance turning comfort.

Automatic Leg and Back Movement: Built-in fully automatic leg and back cyclic movement programs help long-term bedridden elderly perform passive exercises, both freeing up caregiver labor and effectively preventing muscle atrophy and venous thrombosis.

Suspended Zero-Pressure Care: Core technology allows the elderly to achieve a “floating lie,” naturally dispersing gravity, reducing physical burden and pressure discomfort. In the suspended state, back massages can also be easily performed for family members, relieving pressure points during bed rest.

Whole Bed Lifting Function: Caregivers do not need to bend over to operate, greatly reducing the nursing burden and improving operational safety.

Head-Down Supine Adjustment: The head and foot of the bed can be adjusted separately to adapt to special nursing needs like insufficient cerebral blood supply and preventing hypostatic pneumonia.

This series of functions is not just a simple addition, but a restructuring of the nursing process, and an extension of technology towards warmth. “Suspension” is not only an innovation in physical state but also an elevated expression of traditional nursing concepts.

More Than Just a Bed, But a “Systematic” Elderly Care Solution

Fanbaolai deeply understands that the diversity of elderly care needs determines the need for “gradient coverage” of the product system. Therefore, besides the suspended care bed designed for disabled individuals, the company has also launched an electric care bed series suitable for active elderly, with lighter functions and simpler operation, meeting basic needs like daily sitting up, lying down, leg lifting, and angle adjustment.

In 2025, the company will also launch a new external suspension turning mechanism that can be used for upgrading traditional care beds, enabling low-cost expansion of suspension turning functionality, especially suitable for ordinary household users and basic elderly care institutions.

The launch of this “combination punch” makes Fanbaolai not only a pioneer in suspended care beds but also a builder of an age-friendly technology product ecosystem.

Adhering to the Original Intention, Accumulating Strength: From Qianwan New Area to the Nation

Fanbaolai’s predecessor was the Cixi Juxing Steel Cable Factory, established in 1995, focusing on mechanical manufacturing for nearly thirty years. The transition from traditional manufacturing to innovative smart manufacturing, from auto parts to smart elderly care, is an upgraded path of “taking no shortcuts.”

Since the small-batch launch of the first-generation suspended care bed in 2021, Fanbaolai has successively received honors such as “Zhejiang Provincial Elderly Service Association Governing Unit,” “China Social Welfare and Elderly Service Association Governing Unit,” “Zhejiang Provincial Industry Innovation Demonstration Unit,” and was successfully selected into the first batch of Zhejiang Province’s “Elderly Product Promotion Catalog” in 2025. It has currently established extensive application cooperation with social welfare institutions, elderly care institutions, and wellness centers in many regions including Zhejiang, Beijing, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia.

In the Silver Economy Wave, Who Can Do the “Long-Term and Substantial” Work?

According to iiMedia Research predictions, by 2027, the scale of China’s silver economy is expected to exceed 20 trillion RMB, with elderly care services, rehabilitation assistive devices, smart elderly care, etc., becoming core sectors highly focused on by capital and policy.

However, amidst the noise, truly few enterprises can settle down to do the “long-term and substantial” work. Fanbaolai precisely uses its decade-long focus and accumulation to hold the technological high ground and accumulate brand trust.

It is not “chasing trends,” but “walking steadily.” It is not “talking about concepts,” but “solving problems.”

Let Technology Return to the Essence of Life, Let Dignity Not Be Absent in Old Age

In Fanbaolai’s factory showroom, one sentence is particularly eye-catching—”What we make is not a bed, but respect for life in old age.”

It is precisely this philosophy of “doing it a bit slower, a bit more solidly, a bit longer lasting” that has won Fanbaolai the attention of People’s Daily Online and the word-of-mouth praise of users. In the future, as technology and elderly care further integrate, we look forward to seeing more enterprises like Fanbaolai carving out brilliant trajectories belonging to Chinese manufacturing in the blue ocean of the silver economy.

May every elderly person be able to lie securely on a bed that “understands them” in undisturbed dignity.