Industry Updates
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Private hospitals offer hopes of medical revamp
(Xinhua)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao lit up public expectations for an improved medical system that charges less and offers easier access to services by encouraging development of private hospitals.
The high cost ...
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Consumers voice mixed feelings toward pork as flu spreads
(Xinhua)
To eat pork or not to eat pork, that's the question for many Chinese consumers as swine flu, or the H1N1 influenza epidemic, spreads globally.
The World Health Organization has raised its le...
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Health reform push to rejuvenate economy
By Wang Xing (China Daily)
China's recently unveiled medical reform plan is no doubt a shot in the arm for millions of her people who find it difficult to access decent and affordable medical services. Among other...
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Foreign Pharmas Marching into Chinese Towns
While entry of multinational pharmaceutical companies into China has greatly improved the technologies, products and management of the country's healthcare industry, it also causes significant impacts on China's own pharma...
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Made-in-China Medicine Testing the World Market
Many pharmaceutical companies in China are hoping to pass major international certifications, such as certifications from the WHO, EU and Australia. "It is likely that 20 pharmaceutical companies can obtain internatio...
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Analysis on China's Blood Enrichment Products Market
Blood enrichment products possess some special characteristics in China's healthcare market. Firstly, they are one of the most developed products in the Chinese healthcare market, as blood enrichment products have now been...
Business News
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China to be 3rd largest pharma market in 2011
(Agencies)
Sales of prescription drugs in emerging markets will grow rapidly over the next few years, pharmaceutical market research firm IMS Health says, with China becoming the world's third-largest prescription...
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Chinese vice premier stresses orderly reform of healthcare
(Xinhua)
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has called for orderly implementation of the country's healthcare reform.
Li, also head of the State Council's leading group on healthcare system reform, made the ...
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New program will lower drug costs
By Shan Juan (China Daily)
Patients at public hospitals will save more money beginning Sept 25, when the government starts to heavily subsidize a list of common medicines.
China's first essential medicine...
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China's governments ordered to spend more on health care
(Xinhua)
China's central government has ordered local governments to increase funding for public health care system, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement on its website Sunday.
Investment from gove...
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'China-made' fake drugs investigated
By Shan Juan and Xie Chuanjiao (China Daily)
The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) is investigating an allegation by Nigeria that a consignment of drugs labeled 'Made in India' were, in fact, fake pharmace...
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China not a fake-drug factory, says official
By Xie Chuanjiao (China Daily)
China has been unfairly demonized as a center of fake drug production, a senior health official said yesterday.
Bian Zhenjia, deputy commissioner of the State Food and Drug ...
Research reports
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China Listed Bio-pharmaceutical Companies Report, 2008
This report firstly gives an overview of China bio-pharmaceutical industry, and then analyses sub-industries, import & exports status of the industry; finally it expounds the operations and revenue, project investm...
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Global and China Medical Devices Industry Report, 2009
China is the largest vaccine producer and consumer in the world. According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs, China's total vaccine import and export volume reached 34,846 tons in the first five mo...
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China Vitamin Market Report, 2007-2008
The period from 2003 to the end of 2006 had witnessed the rapid development of Chinese vitamin manufacturers, they had together played an important role in the international vitamin market via effective means like expansio...
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China Prosthodontics Market Report, 2008
Irregular and deficient teeth are very common and frequently-encountered diseases. It is reported that about 95% Chinese people have different kinds of dental problems, so the prosthodontics market hides considerably huge ...
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China Pharmaceutical Logistics Industry Report, 2008
China ranks the ninth place in the world's pharmaceutical market in terms of market size. It is forecast that China's pharmaceutical market will continue to maintain a double-digit growth in the next few years and will jum...
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China Antibiotic Market Report, 2008-2009
From the perspective of industrial scale, China's output and production capacity of antibiotic raw materials ranks the NO.1 in the world. In 2007, China's sales revenue of antibiotic raw materials reached CNY35 billion, of...
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