On September 12, 2026, Shanghai Hubang Intelligent Rehabilitation Equipment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hubang") and Shanghai Heart Hope Educational Charity Service Center jointly held the event "Wheel of Thoughts: A Mutual Journey of Student Growth and Corporate Innovation" at Hubang's headquarters. A total of 40 participants, including children and teenagers with disabilities, as well as parents and teachers from "Heart Hope", attended the event.

The event coincides with the "Shanghai Charity Week" in 2026, and revolves around the theme of "Walking with Kindness, Gathering Kindness into the Sea". Through family research, corporate visits, and exchange discussions, students are brought closer to rehabilitation aids, while also allowing enterprises to directly listen to the opinions and suggestions of users. The event plan proposes that through visits, learning, and professional explanations, students will be helped to understand the development, mechanical and electrical principles of wheelchairs and aids. At the same time, suggestions formed through family research will be brought to the corporate site to provide reference for product improvement.

During the event, everyone visited the Hupeng exhibition hall and the Wheelchair Museum to learn about the development history of wheelchairs and rehabilitation aids. Hupeng's R&D personnel explained the basic structure, mechanical principles, and electrical systems of manual and electric wheelchairs with physical objects, allowing students to understand the connection between design, manufacturing, and practical use from the perspective of specific products. Visiting, technical explanations, and on-site demonstrations were also important parts of this research and learning activity.

The discussion session was based on the previous family survey, focusing on issues such as product craftsmanship, operational flexibility, battery life and load capacity, folding and storage, indoor and outdoor scenarios, after-sales maintenance, and safety and durability. The survey included 10 questions, covering multiple practical aspects of wheelchair use. Students, parents, and wheelchair users exchanged views on issues such as the relevant requirements for taking electric wheelchairs and batteries on high-speed trains, passing through narrow indoor doors, and the design of manual wheelchairs, based on their actual experiences. He Junping, General Manager of Hubang, and R&D personnel responded based on the actual situation.

During the discussion, it was also mentioned that while the industry generally focuses on innovations in electric wheelchairs, the demand for manual wheelchairs in home use, short-distance mobility, and other scenarios also deserves attention. For home use scenarios, there is still room for continuous optimization in terms of product body width, indoor passage, and operational convenience. During the exchange, "technology assisting the disabled" also became a topic of concern. With the development of technologies such as artificial intelligence and intelligent interaction, rehabilitation aids are moving towards the integration of intelligence, interaction, and cutting-edge technologies. Discussions centered around brain-computer interfaces, interactive smart wheelchairs, deformable aids, and other directions. For Hubang, the value of cutting-edge technologies ultimately comes back to the users themselves, addressing specific issues in travel and daily life. First-hand feedback from students, parents, and wheelchair users will also become an important reference for subsequent product development and optimization. For students, this is a practice of stepping from the classroom into the enterprise; for Hubang, it is also an opportunity to directly listen to user opinions.

Moving forward, Hubang will continue to strengthen communication with public welfare organizations, schools, and user groups. We will incorporate the issues and suggestions collected on-site into our research and development process, using them as references for product improvement. This will also allow more people to understand rehabilitation aids, ensuring that our product development is more closely aligned with the actual needs of users.