On the afternoon of November 7, 2026, the Academic Symposium on High-Quality Data Development and Knowledge Services for Medical Journals and the 2026 Annual Review Meeting of the Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining and Services for Medical Journals, National Press and Publication Administration, were held at the Liaoning International Hotel in Beijing. Under the theme “Unlocking the Value of Content and Data · Building an Intelligent Knowledge Ecosystem,” the meeting focused on such topics as authoritative medical content governance, the development of high-quality corpora and datasets, the digital and intelligent transformation of medical journals, and knowledge service applications. Participants exchanged updates on ongoing initiatives, shared practical experience, and explored pathways for medical knowledge services to support scientific innovation and clinical practice. More than 90 experts from relevant fields across China attended the meeting.

 

The Academic Symposium on High-Quality Data Development and Knowledge Services for Medical Journals and the 2026 Annual Review Meeting of the Key Laboratory of Knowledge Mining and Services for Medical Journals, National Press and Publication Administration

 

The meeting was moderated by Lyu Xiangzheng, Deputy President of  Chinese Medical Association Publishing House and Deputy Director of the Laboratory.

 

Lyu Xiangzheng, Deputy President of the Publishing House of the Chinese Medical Association and Deputy Director of the Laboratory, moderates the meeting

 

At the opening session, Liu Xingping, former Director General of the Department of Science and Technology Innovation of the China Association for Science and Technology, attended the meeting and delivered remarks. He spoke highly of Chinese Medical Association Publishing House for its exploration and achievements in journal clustering, independent publishing platforms, and knowledge services. He also put forward three expectations: maintaining quality as the foundation, pursuing intensive and integrated development, and promoting innovative knowledge services driven by user needs.

 

Liu Xingping, former Director General of the Department of Science and Technology Innovation of the China Association for Science and Technology, delivers remarks

 

Academician Wang Zhenchang, President of the Chinese Society of Science and Technology Journal Editors and Dean of the School of Medical Imaging at Capital Medical University, delivered a keynote presentation entitled “Strategic Transformation of Chinese Scientific Journals and the Vision for 2035—Driving High-Quality Journal Development through Digitalization and Intelligence.” Focusing on the strategic development of Chinese scientific journals in the context of digitalization and intelligent technologies, the presentation analyzed the current development and challenges facing China’s scientific journals and explored pathways for advancing their high-quality development through digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

 

Academician Wang Zhenchang, President of the Chinese Society of Science and Technology Journal Editors and Dean of the School of Medical Imaging at Capital Medical University, delivers the keynote presentation

 

Wei Junmin, President and Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Medical Association Publishing House and Director of the Laboratory, presented the “2026 Annual Review of the Key Laboratory and Work Plan for the Next Stage.” The presentation systematically reviewed the Laboratory’s progress over the past year in key areas including content resource governance, high-quality corpus development, knowledge platform development, intelligent applications, and model evaluation, and outlined its priorities and work arrangements for the next stage.

 

Wei Junmin, President and Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Medical Association Publishing House and Director of the Laboratory, presents the Laboratory’s annual work report

 

Shen Xibin, Director of the New Media Department of Chinese Medical Association Publishing House , Deputy Director of the Laboratory, and Chair of the Publishing Professional Committee, then delivered a presentation entitled “Development and Practice of High-Quality Corpora in Clinical Medicine,” introducing the implementation progress of various research projects funded by the Laboratory. Zhou Kun, Product Director of Peking University Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. and Deputy Director of the Laboratory, delivered a presentation entitled “From ‘Going Global by Borrowing a Ship’ to ‘Building Our Own Ship to Go Global’—Independent and Controllable Technologies · Integrated Journal Clustering · MedNexus 2.0,” providing a systematic introduction to the functions and development of the bilingual communication platform of the Chinese Medical Journal Cluster.

Shen Xibin, Director of the New Media Department of Chinese Medical Association Publishing House and Deputy Director of the Laboratory (left), and Zhou Kun, Product Director of Peking University Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. and Deputy Director of the Laboratory (right), deliver presentations

 

Yang Daiqing, Director of the Center for Scientometrics and Research Assessment at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China and Deputy Director of the Laboratory, chaired the session on the development and evaluation of high-quality datasets for healthcare settings.

 

Yang Daiqing, Director of the Center for Scientometrics and Research Assessment at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, chairs the session

 

Liang Yixiu, Associate Chief Physician at Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, first provided an interpretation of the “Expert Consensus on General Requirements for the Development of High-Quality Datasets in Healthcare Settings (2026 Edition).” This was followed by a presentation from Lyu Han, Director of the Information Center and Chief Physician at Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, who introduced the development plan for the “Expert Consensus on Evaluation Standards for High-Quality Datasets in Healthcare Settings.” The two presentations focused respectively on dataset development requirements and evaluation standards, providing references for the standardized development and quality evaluation of high-quality datasets in healthcare settings.

 

Liang Yixiu, Associate Chief Physician at Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University (left), and Lyu Han, Director of the Information Center and Chief Physician at Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University (right), deliver presentations

 

In the final session on policy and scenario-based applications, Song Xin, Executive Deputy Chair and Secretary-General of the Digital Health Professional Committee of the China Association for Promotion of Science and Technology Industrialization, delivered a presentation entitled “Policy Directions and Application Practices for the Development of High-Quality Healthcare Datasets,” sharing insights into relevant policy directions and application practices.

 

Song Xin, Executive Deputy Chair and Secretary-General of the Digital Health Professional Committee of the China Association for Promotion of Science and Technology Industrialization, delivers a presentation

 

Regarding the integration and application of authoritative medical knowledge in health service scenarios, Zhao Jing, Director of Digital Diagnosis and Treatment at Ant Afu, delivered a presentation entitled “Bringing Authoritative Medical Knowledge into Every Health Decision—Ecosystem Collaboration Practices Integrating Authoritative Content with Health Service Scenarios.” Zhang Lingyu, Head of AI Medicine at Alibaba Health Hydrogen Ion, delivered a presentation entitled “Application of Authoritative Medical Knowledge and the Closed Loop of Knowledge Services—Integrating Content Capabilities with Intelligent Service Scenarios.” Wang Dan, Deputy General Manager of Xiaohe Health at ByteDance, delivered a presentation entitled “Aggregating High-Quality Medical Data to Serve Comprehensive Health Scenarios—Evolving Demand and Application Insights for Authoritative Medical Content.” Drawing on their respective business scenarios, the three speakers shared practical experience and insights into connecting authoritative medical content with health decision-making, intelligent services, and comprehensive health scenarios.

 

Zhao Jing, Director of Digital Diagnosis and Treatment at Ant Afu; Zhang Lingyu, Head of AI Medicine at Alibaba Health Hydrogen Ion; and Wang Dan, Deputy General Manager of Xiaohe Health at ByteDance, deliver presentations (from left to right)

 

Finally, Shen Xibin, Director of the New Media Department of Chinese Medical Association Publishing House, delivered the closing remarks. The meeting facilitated in-depth exchanges on such topics as corpus development for medical journals, communication platform development, consensus-building on data standards, scenario-based applications, and knowledge empowerment, laying a foundation for the Laboratory’s further exploration in publishing, healthcare, scientific research, and technological applications.