The medical apparatus industry will usher in sustained and healthy development

According to reports, the Ministry of Science and Technology key special project "medical apparatus industry science and technology development special project planning 2011-2015" has been completed, after extensive consultation with medical apparatus enterprises is expected to be introduced in the near future.

　　China's medical apparatus market is developing rapidly and has a wide space

　　At present, China's medical apparatus market is expanding rapidly and has become the third largest medical apparatus market in the world after the United States and Japan. China has become the main region driving the growth of the global market. In the next few years, if the current development speed is maintained, China will surpass Japan to become the second largest medical apparatus market in the world. China's medical apparatus market is active, and the guidance of national policies and the replacement demand of domestic medical and health institutions have made China a huge medical apparatus consumption market.

　　In the context of stimulating market demand and the sustained and stable development of China's economy, China's medical apparatus has developed rapidly. In recent years, China's medical apparatus industry has maintained rapid growth, with sales revenue growth rates above 17%, with an average growth rate of 20.81%. In 2006, the sales revenue of the medical apparatus industry reached 42.771 billion yuan. In 2007, China's medical apparatus industry achieved sales revenue of 54.795 billion yuan, an increase of 28.11% year over year. Among them, the sales of high-end medical apparatus have reached 10 billion yuan, maintaining an average annual growth rate of about 20%.

　　At the same time, the new medical reform also clearly pointed out that the state will increase the construction of public health system and grass-roots medical and health care in urban communities and rural areas year by year. With medical apparatus companies further digging into the "go to the countryside + community" market, and under the situation of continuous structural adjustment and industrial upgrading, the medical apparatus industry has entered a period of rapid development. In the future, grass-roots medical institutions in second- and third-tier counties and townships will be the top priority of China's medical apparatus market, including economically backward areas such as the central and western regions. With the growth of consumption power in these regions 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, the overall level of medical equipment in domestic medical institutions is still very low, the distribution of medical apparatus is very uneven between regions and medical institutions, and medical resources are mainly concentrated in large urban hospitals; 15% of the existing instruments and equipment in medical institutions across the country are products before the 1970s, and 60% of the equipment is products before the mid-1980s.

　　Similar to China's pharmaceutical industry, China's medical apparatus industry also has problems such as large number, small scale, low industry concentration, insufficient scientific research investment, and weak innovation ability. In fact, the medical apparatus industry is a multi-disciplinary, knowledge-intensive, capital-intensive high-tech industry with a high threshold for entry, and although the number of Chinese medical apparatus companies is relatively large, most of them can only seek survival in the low-end market, or Provide spare parts for foreign companies, which account for less than 1/3 of the high-end market, and the products have a certain gap with foreign companies in terms of service life and product quality.

　　Chinese local medical apparatus companies have a very low market share in the high-end market, and the high-end market of medical apparatus is occupied by foreign companies. Facing such a broad domestic medical apparatus market, although there are so many medical apparatus manufacturers in China, they still have to import a large number of medical equipment from abroad. China spends hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign exchange every year to import a large number of medical equipment from abroad, and nearly 70% of the domestic medical apparatus market has also been divided up by foreign companies.

　　Multiple favorable factors will promote the continuous development of the medical apparatus industry

　　The relevant person in charge of the Planning and Finance Department of the Ministry of Health of China said at the 20th academic annual meeting of the China Medical Equipment Association this year that during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the central government will continue to increase investment in medical apparatus and equipment projects to support primary medical institutions. Equipped with basic equipment, strengthen the construction and equipping of disease control institutions, occupational health prevention Rexroth filter treatment institutions and maternal and child health care institutions, as well as improve the rural emergency system and gradually increase ambulances and necessary emergency equipment. In addition, the allocation of health education equipment in primary medical and health institutions and the construction of equipment in medical and health personnel training bases have also been considered.

　　At the same time, Meng Jianguo, deputy secretary-general of the China Medical Equipment Association, said at the meeting that supporting the medical apparatus 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, inspection equipment and information technology products in county-level hospitals in China will increase sharply. "The new medical reform will vigorously invest in primary 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 420,000 township-level governments. In addition, the new medical reform drives the private hospital market, which will bring business opportunities to the medical apparatus market.

　　According to MIIT sources, during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, China will vigorously improve the digitization, intelligence, high precision and networking of medical apparatus, promote the development of domestic medical apparatus, and is expected to achieve remanufacturing in the field of medical equipment in the next step.

　　According to sources from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the "special project plan" has support for high, medium and low-end medical apparatus. There are 10 categories of key basic equipment involved in primary medical care, and it is expected to promote high-quality and cheap ultrasound color 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 apparatus service business will be supported.

　　In addition, with technological progress and the rapid development of China's economy, the accelerated pace of China's integration with the world will promote the upgrading of domestic equipment and expand the market capacity of medical apparatus. At the same time, China's population base is large and the population naturally grows rapidly, and the natural growth of the population is the most basic factor to promote the consumption of medical commodities. With the development of the economy, people's living standards have also improved. People have begun to generally pursue improving the quality of life, have a relatively strong awareness of health care, and have a relatively large demand for medical apparatus products.

　　With the introduction of national support policies, as well as the development of the market economy and market demand, the medical apparatus industry will usher in sustained and healthy development.