ShenzhenMay 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, the 2026 National Industry-Finance Collaborative Development Conference, themed “Building a Financial Powerhouse through Regional Co-creation,” was held in Shanghai. The conference was guided by the Shanghai United Media Group, hosted by Cailianshe, and co-initiated with over ten regional equity trading centers across the country. During the concurrently held “Huayao Award” ceremony, Cigna & CMB Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Cigna & CMB”) was honored with the “Annual Outstanding Practice in Serving the Real Economy through Finance” award.
The “Huayao Award,” established by Cailianshe under the National Industry-Finance Collaborative Development Conference, aims to “recognize excellence and empower industries.” It is jointly evaluated with multiple regional equity trading centers, focusing on core dimensions such as industry-finance collaboration, technological innovation, and capital empowerment of the real economy, to select benchmark institutions and enterprises across various fields. Cigna & CMB received this award for its innovative “Corporate Health Security Package Plan.” This plan, centered on a differentiated “Managed Care” service model, deeply addresses corporate health security needs. By integrating insurance coverage, health management, and medical service resources, it injects resilient momentum into the real economy and has become a benchmark practice for financial empowerment of the real sector.
Currently, the domestic corporate health security market mainly features three models: the TPA model offers flexibility but suffers from fragmented services; the “insurance + service” combination model boasts abundant resources yet lacks coordination; and the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) model, through deep integration of payers and service providers, achieves “full-process management plus strong cost control.” Although it has a high entry barrier, it represents the core future direction of the industry.
In the field of corporate health security, Cigna & CMB’s exploration of the HMO model began in 2009. Initially, the company’s high-end medical group insurance primarily targeted foreign-invested enterprises. As domestic corporate health benefits upgraded and the market matured, its services have widely extended to numerous local outstanding enterprises. After 17 years of meticulous cultivation, Cigna & CMB has provided “insurance + health” comprehensive protection plans to over 6,000 enterprises and more than one million employees, covering medium-to-high-end medical insurance, corporate supplementary medical group insurance, and customized corporate health management services.
Specifically, Cigna & CMB’s group insurance product system features high coverage limits, broad scope, and diverse medical choices as its core characteristics. With the main theme of “good doctors, good medicines, good experience,” it builds a comprehensive health management system. Leveraging a global direct-billing and designated medical network of over 2 million providers, along with online platforms such as the “Xiaonuo Health” internet hospital and “Corporate Clinic,” it provides enterprises and employees with full-cycle health services covering “pre-consultation, during consultation, and post-consultation.”
The evaluation body believes that Cigna & CMB’s integrated medical solution, centered on group insurance, deeply aligns with the needs of enterprises and employees, becoming a key lever for companies to enhance talent attraction, improve organizational agility, and achieve cost reduction and efficiency gains. This solution is primarily tilted toward key areas of the real economy, with a high proportion of enterprises in fields such as technological innovation and advanced manufacturing, providing a solid health security foundation for the country’s cultivation of new quality productive forces. In terms of regional coverage, it has achieved full coverage of core economic circles such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, strongly supporting talent strategies and industrial upgrades in key regions.
This award not only recognizes Cigna & CMB’s “insurance + health” ecosystem but also highlights the responsibility of the financial insurance industry to return to its roots and serve the real economy. Looking ahead, Cigna & CMB will continue to deepen its “Big Health” strategy, striving toward the goal of becoming a “leader in corporate health benefit solutions in China,” helping more enterprises achieve a win-win situation of improved health levels and optimized benefit costs, and jointly consolidating the micro-foundation for high-quality economic development in China.