Aikang Group Zhang Ligang: Suzhou is the largest city in China with the highest longevity, with an average life expectancy of 85 years, surpassing Japan.

The 2026 Yabuli Forum Annual Meeting was held in Yabuli, Heilongjiang from March 17th to 19th. At the closing ceremony, the founder and CEO of iKang Healthcare Group, Zhang Ligang, delivered a speech. He cited data that the average life expectancy in China had increased to 79.25 years in 2025, but there is still a gap compared to long-lived countries. The city with the longest life expectancy in China is Suzhou, where the latest average life expectancy has reached 85 years, surpassing Japan. He believes that as the aging process accelerates, preventive-centered lifelong health management will become a trend. AI will become a core disruptive means of optimizing global medical resource allocation, effectively addressing the imbalance of quality medical resources supply and demand worldwide.