Responding to demographic change through research
advancing the silver economy through collaboration

The Shanghai Hongqiao Silver Economy Research Institute (the Silver Economy Research Institute) is Shanghai's first specialised city-level research institute for the silver economy, positioned as a new type of think tank integrating the whole chain of government, industry, academia, research, finance, services and application.

Registered and approved by the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau on 22 July 2026, the Institute is a city-level private non-enterprise unit and non-profit professional research organisation, supervised by the Administrative Committee of the Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District. Drawing on Shanghai's core location advantages and the Yangtze River Delta's resource-allocation capacity, it centres on the real needs of the silver economy and on research that turns ideas into industrial practice, breaking down the single-domain resource barriers of conventional research bodies.

The Institute builds an open collaboration platform linking policy, industry, academia, capital and end users. It focuses on standards systems for the silver industry, the deployment of core technologies in real scenarios, cross-sector resource coordination and the market-based incubation of quality results, turning research into policy recommendations, industry standards and industrial practice.