China's Biomedical Industry Competitiveness Upgrade Path

Biomedical industry in China more competitive inthe world Pharmaceutical companies Industry
the path?? Biomedical industry as an example ofhave been directly or indirectly enter the Chinese
Shanghaimarket, they not only approved drugs
I. Development of China's biomedical industry andthemselves quickly registered in China, while
means ofproduction line built in China production, and some
Biotechnology in China based on 70 yearsclinical trials of new drug development will be
follow-up study carried out into the 90's, startedmoved to China to complete. The impact of
in the field of medicine and agricultureforeign drug development. 1997 U.S. biotechnology
industrialization process. Compared with developedventure capital has more than 50 billion U.S. dollars,
countries, China's market is small, but the growthand the additional annual investment of 50 billion
rate significantly higher than the global marketU.S. dollars, while China's 10 years on the total
growth. Domestic bio- Pharmaceutical market Notinput biopharmaceutical less than 40 billion yuan.
yet formed a monopoly competition, industryIntellectual property disputes. IP protection greatly
concentration is low, the majority of enterpriseslimit the domestic manufacturers of imitation
are small-scale development phase. In general,behavior, and our very few drugs with
showed the following characteristics: First, thereindependent property rights.
are considerable reserves of talent andOverall, China's biomedical industry shows a small
technology. Currently engaged in biotechnologyscale, started late feature, with Europe and the
research and development staff for almost 2United States, Japan and other advanced
million people, more and more students to studycountries is also at a disadvantage. From the
abroad have returned, bringing advancedperspective of industry life cycle, biological
technology. Take 1% of the work of the Humanpharmaceutical industry in the industrial growth
Genome Project and the Chinese genome projectphase, and will have strong market prospects, is
start-up, for the establishment of gene banks forcontested national industry competition. From a
the Chinese nation and laid a good foundation forglobal point of view, after years of development
the research of genetically modified plants andand market competition, coupled with the
animals has yielded some results. Second, Chinagovernment lost no time to boot, many
has unique biological resources. Uneven economicdeveloped countries in technology, personnel,
development, making China both the developedcapital-intensive areas, has gradually formed a
and developing various diseases, withbio-gathering area, thus forming a more perfect
disease-related genes provides a unique resource;bio-pharmaceutical industry chain and industry
has good diversity; China's animal and plantcluster. The United States has formed a San
resources are very rich. Third, many factorsFrancisco, Boston, Washington, North Carolina, five
contribute to the development of the industry.San Diego area biotechnology industry. Silicon
Support of national policy, Pharmaceutical IndustryValley biotech industry which accounts for the U.S.
Attention to the introduction of venture capitalbiotechnology industry employed more than half
investors agree that the second board market willof employees, sales revenue in the U.S.
facilitate the establishment of more rapidbiotechnology industry, 57%, R & D
development of the industry. State Druginvestment accounted for 59% of their annual
Administration of various New Drugs Appropriatesales growth rate of nearly 40%. Besides the U.S.,
extension of protection. At present, some listedthe UK's Cambridge genome Park, the southern
companies in the biomedical field, while the risk ofsuburbs of Paris, France, the gene Valley,
investment for the industry has begun operation.Germany bio-technology demonstration areas,
Fourth, patent risk will be gradually released. Somebiological park in Bangalore, India, gathered,
enterprises in China and some foreign genericincluding biotech companies, research, technology
biological products will be joined WTO, the impacttransfer centers, banking, investment, services,
of intellectual property protection, but manyetc., large number of institutions, providing a large
products patent is about to expire, so that thesenumber of employment opportunities and most of
companies produce these products, the risk ofthe output. The biotechnology industry clusters in
gradual release.these countries and regions in the budding
Join the WTO, China's biomedical industry facesindustrial structure, expanding the scale of the
the impact of the biological drugs, the import tariffindustry, enhance industrial competitiveness and
from the point of view, the current Preparationmade important contributions.
Drug import tariff is 20%; "WTO" after 10 yearsTherefore, the development of China's biomedical
will be reduced to 6.5% level. The impact ofindustry is the most critical training and
foreign direct access. Many biological systems indevelopment of strong regional biomedical cluster.