My CIIE Story • Great Opportunity: Expo facilitates Elekta's access to Chinese market

Editor's Note: The fifth China International Import Expo will open in less than a month. In October, several participants of the CIIE will tell their stories themed around "great opportunity" to showcase the positive changes the expo has made to the world and how it has helped build a community with a shared future for mankind over the past five years.

Elekta was founded 50 years ago and the radiotherapy technology company entered the Chinese market only 10 years after its establishment. It was among the first group of foreign enterprises that developed business in China.

At the inaugural CIIE in 2018, Eleckta, which was the only foreign radiotherapy equipment exhibitor, launched Elekta Unity, the world's first 1.5T high-field magnetic resonance-guided linear accelerator. It combines an MRI scanner and the linear accelerator radiation therapeutic technology in a single system. The product, which received much more attention than we expected, entered the Chinese market in 2020 and has since helped clinical doctors to better treat cancer patients.