Shanghai store offers mobility aids and services for overseas visitors

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The AID Innovative Product Experience Pavilion, also known as the Shanghai Modern Aging Store, is attracting more overseas visitors.

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The entrance to the Shanghai Modern Aging Store. [Photo/Putuo district]

Recent visitors have come from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, and Indonesia. They include tourists seeking mobility aids, senior-care professionals eager to learn about China's senior-care sector, and expats living in Shanghai.

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A customer with his newly purchased wheelchair. [Photo/Council for the Promotion of International Trade Shanghai]

The store offers a wide range of products, including wheelchairs, canes, fall-prevention vests, and exoskeleton robots. For items that are popular with overseas customers, English instructions and videos are available. Staff are proficient in English and Japanese and provide multilingual translation services, including foreign-language notes on invoices.

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Mobility aids and other products are on display. [Photo/Putuo district]
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An age-friendly model living space is on display in the store. [Photo/Putuo district]

The store provides easy payment methods such as credit cards, Alipay, and WeChat Pay. Its staff are well-qualified, holding certifications as rehabilitation assistive technology consultants and having received first-aid training.

For customers traveling internationally with mobility equipment, the store provides bilingual battery reports, labels, and instructions to help meet travel-related requirements.

The store also serves business customers, including representatives from senior-care product distributors, retailers that sell products for older adults, and care facilities in Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. These visitors come to discover new products and insights into China's senior-care sector.

 

If you go

Address: 1F, Building D, Push Plaza, No 452 Daduhe Road, Putuo district

Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 9 am to 5 pm

Contact: 176-2165-7365, 021-6025-0639

 

Sources: Council for the Promotion of International Trade Shanghai, WeChat account of Putuo district government