The MST Supports the Development of Medical Device Industry
The special plan for scientific and technological development of medical device industry 2011-2015, a key project of the Ministry of science and technology (MST), has been completed and is expected to be issued in the near future after widely soliciting the opinions of medical device enterprises.
China's medical device market is developing rapidly with a wide profit space.
At present, China's medical device market is expanding rapidly and has become the third largest medical device market in the world after the United States and Japan. China has become the main region driving the increase of the global market. In the next few years, if the current development rate is maintained, China will surpass Japan and become the second largest medical device market in the world. China's active medical device market, the guidance of national policies and the upgrading demand of domestic medical and health institutions have made China a huge medical device consumption market.
Under the stimulation of market demand and the sustained and stable development of China's economy, China's medical devices have developed rapidly. In recent years, China's medical device industry has maintained rapid growth, and the growth rate of sales revenue has remained above 17%, with an average growth rate of 20.81%. In 2006, the sales revenue of the medical device industry reached 42.771 billion yuan. In 2007, the sales revenue of China's medical device industry reached 54.795 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.11%, of which the sales of high-end medical devices reached 10 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of about 20%.
At the same time, the new medical reform also clearly points out that the state will increase the construction of public health system, urban community and rural grass-roots medical and health care year by year. As medical device enterprises further dig into the "countryside+community" market, and under the situation of continuous structural adjustment and industrial upgrading, the medical device industry has entered a period of rapid development. In the future, the primary medical institutions in the second and third tier counties and towns will be the top priority of China's medical device market, including the economically backward areas such as the central and western regions. With the growth of consumption strength in these areas and the continuous increase of national medical reform investment in the future, the growth space of districts and counties will be quite broad.
Prominent development issues
According to the data, at present, the overall level of medical equipment of domestic medical institutions is still very low, the distribution of medical devices among regions and medical institutions is very uneven, and the medical resources are mainly concentrated in large urban hospitals; 15% of the existing instruments and equipment of medical institutions in China are products before the 1970s, and 60% of the equipment are products before the mid-1980s.
There are hidden worries behind China's booming medical device market. Similar to China's pharmaceutical industry, China's medical device industry also has problems of largequantity, small scale, low industry concentration, insufficient scientific research investment and weak innovation ability. In fact, the medical device industry is a multi-disciplinary, knowledge intensive and capital intensive high-tech industry with high entry barriers. Although there are a large number of Chinese medical device enterprises, most of them can only seek survival in the medium and low-end market or provide spare parts for foreign enterprises, with a share of less than 1 / 3 in the high-end market, There is a certain gap between the products and foreign enterprises in service life and product quality.
The market share of Chinese local medical device enterprises in the high-end market is very low, and the high-end market of medical devices is occupied by foreign enterprises. Facing with such a broad domestic medical device market, although there are so many domestic medical device manufacturers, China still has to import a large number of medical devices from abroad. China spends hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign exchange to import a large number of medical devices from abroad every year, and nearly 70% of the domestic medical device market has been dividedup by foreign companies.
Multiple positive factors will promote the sustainable development of the medical device industry
The relevant person in charge of the planning and Finance Department of the Ministry of health of China said at the 20th Annual Academic Meeting of China Medical Equipment Association this year that during the 12th Five Year Plan period, the central government will continue to increase investment in medical equipment projects to support grass-roots medical institutions in basic equipment preparation and strengthen disease control institutions Occupational health prevention and control institutions and maternal andchild health care institutions shall be built and equipped with necessary equipment, as well as improving the rural first aid system and gradually increasing ambulances and necessary first aid equipment. In addition, the allocation of health education equipment ingrass-roots medical and health institutions and the equipment construction of medical and health talent training base have also been taken into account.
Meanwhile, Meng Jianguo, Deputy Secretary General of China Medical Equipment Association, said at the meeting that supporting the medical device industry will be one of the priorities of the 12th Five Year Plan.
In the next five years, the demand for medical equipment, imaging equipment, testing equipment and information products in China's county-level hospitals will soar. "The new medical reform will vigorously invest in grass-roots medical institutions. This year, the state will invest 2.5 million yuan in each county hospital and 2 million yuan in each traditional Chinese Medicine hospital." at present, China has more than 1.8 million natural villages and nearly 420000 township governments. In addition, the new medical reform will drive the private hospital market and bring business opportunities to the medical device market.
According to sources from the Ministry of industry and information technology, during the 12th Five Year Plan period, China will vigorously improve the digitization, intelligence, high precision and networking of medical devices, promote the development of domestic medical devices, and hope to realize remanufacturing in the field of medical devices in the next step.
According to sources from the Ministry of science and technology, the special plan supports high, middle and low-end medical devices. There are 10 types of key basic equipment involved in primary medical treatment, and it is expected to promote high-quality and low-cost ultrasound equipment suitable for national conditions; Focus on solving the problem of high-value consumables in the field of high-end products and strive to achieve pricing power; Medical device service business will be supported.
In addition, with the technological progress and the rapid development of China's economy, the acceleration of China's pace of integration with the world will promote the upgrading of domestic equipment and expand the market capacity of medical devices. At the same time, China has a large population base and rapid natural population growth, which is the basic factor to promote the consumption of medical commodities. With the development of economy, people's living standards have also improved. People began to generally pursue to improve the quality of life, have a strong awareness of health care, and have a great demand for medical devices.
With the introduction of national support policies, the development of market economyand market demand, the medical device industry will usher in sustained and healthy development.