Urgent need to upgrade the medical device industry
Ministry official pointed out, there are structural problems in China's pharmaceutical industry. In the field of medical devices, some of the major, multiple disease drugs and high-end medical equipment has been dependent on imports. Unable to grasp the core component technology, it is one of the difficulties China's medical equipment industry upgrading.
Ministry early on began to develop the medical device industry to accelerate the development of the work plan, mainly because some oriented ideas, focusing on long-term development of the industry. It is expected to introduced during the year. "The source said.
Medical device industry is an important part of the national strategic emerging industries. It is reported that China's existing medical device industry, including 14,000 production enterprises, more than 40,000 dealers, the annual market capacity to break through 300 billion yuan, the annual output value and the market growth rate of more than 20%. In addition, the latest Bureau of Statistics data show that from January to May this year, the output value of 55.69 billion yuan of medical devices, an increase of 20.6%.
In fact, one can not ignore the reality that China's medical equipment sales in the world's medical device market accounts for less than 3% of the share. This is producing great power status is not commensurate with our light industry, medical equipment innovation is the biggest problem of China's medical equipment industry. This year from January to May, China's medical equipment exports also in decline.
As early as the end of last year, the Ministry of Science and the Social Development Division Director of Biotechnology and Medicine at 张兆丰 disclosed that "medical device technology industry," second five "special plan" has been formally incorporated into the Ministry of Science and special focus areas. How to achieve innovation and development, industrial upgrading, is the problem facing the health care industry for years to come.
Currently, the medical device industry to promote chain optimization difficulty lies in "research use" combination. According 张兆丰, the real Combination is invested enterprises have become the subject of university research and development related to technology and business to form a relationship of shared interests, and related core components manufacturers should be able to form an association with the machine manufacturers benefit.