Thailand – China Acceleration Program 🇹🇭

In 2025, XNode and Thailand’s National Innovation Agency (NIA) launched the joint program to help Thai tech companies enter China. The first cohort includes three NIA-recommended startups—desensitizing oral-care, sustainable insect protein, and blockchain+AI health data—moving from online preparation to an on-site Shanghai immersion in July 2025 with market workshops, partner meetings, and ecosystem visits and professional exhibitions.

• Regulatory Pathways: Understanding classification, registration, and certification expectations for the medtech products.

• Consumer Education : For novel food products, aligning with Chinese consumer preferences, pricing, and channels.

• Data & Compliance: Clarifying health-data handling, interoperability, and compliant pilot scenarios.

• Early-Stage Readiness: Many Thai ventures are at seed/early-growth—needing sharper China value propositions and partner-led entry.

• China Readiness Sprint: Online discovery workshops mapping feasible China pathways per business model.

• Focused Market Dialogues: 1:1 sessions with CROs, hospital/clinic partners, channel operators, and AI/health-data experts to test assumptions.

• Scenario-Based Visits: WAIC, robotics, and AI enablement centers to translate tech into China application scenes.

• Partner Shortlists: Introductions to potential OEMs, e-commerce/clinic hybrid channel partners, and co-development allies.

• Pilot Design Support: Framing PoC scope (sites, metrics, compliance), especially for oral-care and health-data use cases.

• Actionable Next Steps: Each startup left with a prioritized China entry checklist (regulatory, channel, pilot).

• Pilot & Co-dev Intents: Initial consensus for a Thailand hospital IoT+blockchain environment pilot, OEM and packaging discussions for oral-care, and co-branding concepts for insect-protein snacks.

• Sharper Market Insight: Clearer views on consumer psychology, pricing, and KOL/clinic pathways.

• Momentum for Phase-2: Teams expressed intent to deepen collaboration with XNode for continued BD and pilot execution.