2008 China Foreign Trade Medicines & Health Products Prospect

Party congress clearly the overall objective of healthdimension C, penicillin and other "two high and one
system reform, medical residents will spur substantialcapital" products, especially about the implementation
growth in consumer demand for our pharmaceuticalof the "pharmaceutical industrial pollution emission
industry to create a good environmentstandards", will increase the bulk API business
unprecedented. In 2007, the State has published aenvironmental costs, water, coal, electricity, oil prices,
series designed to help the pharmaceutical industry,and labor, safety and other laws, regulations and
scientific and technological progress of related policies,standards of strict enforcement, would greatly
coupled with the various ministries should continue toincrease the production of integrated cost, combined
introduce specific measures, from a technical,with the State Drug Administration Department is
regulatory levels to promote the system, which willpreparing to introduce the export of drugs import
push forward the Chinese enterprises to improveand export of medical equipment management
their core competitiveness, further accelerate thepractices and management measures on import and
pace of the world. In 2008, China's Foreign Tradeexport of growing efforts to standardize market
Medicines & Health Products will maintain rapidorder, etc., will result in some weak or do not have
growth, chemical raw continue to be China's exportsthe business qualifications of the enterprises have
of medicine and health products industry mainstay,been eliminated, the majority of pharmaceutical
our conventional bulk chemical raw edge will becompanies in the new regulatory environment policy
maintained, especially antibiotics, vitamins , hormone,experience a wider reshuffle. Determination and
antipyretic and analgesic, amino acids, alkaloids andinnovation, targeting high-end products and markets,
other products will take up a considerable share increating higher added value will undoubtedly be the
the world. With the domestic enterprises to improvefirst choice of new business wins, the extensive
productivity and technology, the export of Westerngrowth mode of foreign trade is expected due to
medicines will speed up. Small and medium sizedthe adjustment within the industry and the
medical device while maintaining comparativeemergence of new changes.
advantage and export competitiveness, while some(B) of the Chinese enterprises to seize the new
high-tech medical equipment products and highopportunity to speed up the pace of opening up the
value-added exports to grow steadily, our medicalinternational market
equipment in the international market competitiveness2008 for the year for large pharmaceutical companies
will gradually increase. In addition, China's TCM exportsare full of business opportunities in China a year, the
will maintain the momentum of rapid growth, Chineseglobal pharmaceutical market will achieve 5-6%
crude drugs, extracts and health care products willgrowth, market size is expected to reach 735 000
also achieve rapid export growth. 2008 is expected000 000 -7.45 thousand billion dollars, the world will
to medicine and health products in China is expectedhave annual sales About 200 million worth of drugs
to maintain more than 20% increase in total importsfacing patent expiration, is equivalent to the previous
and exports to more than 40 billion U.S. dollars. Intwo years combined. Which, Risperdal, Fosamax,
general, in 2008, China's pharmaceutical import andTopomax, Lamictal and Depakote and other products
export situation would seem to present the followingwill be more mainstream end of the world market
new features:exclusivity, which will drive generics market to grow
(A) of the new industrial policy factors, medicalat 14-15%, reaching 700 billion. 2008, the United
foreign trade structure, China will have a majorStates more than two thirds of prescription drugs will
impactbe generic. Germany's new government contracts
Long time, the pharmaceutical industry has beenimplementation plan as well as Japan, Spain and Italy,
influenced by the government's policy of one of thethe educational project to promote generics in the
industries, and since the beginning of 2007, for themarket more widely used. In addition,
pharmaceutical industry's policies and measures asGlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and other multinational
much as, density and impact of the deep is rare overcompanies have begun to shift their production bases
the years, these policy factors bound to theto China, many multinational companies in China has
continuation in 2008 and highlights the significantbeen and will continue to establish more research and
policy effects. Among them, the newly-introduceddevelopment center. In the global pharmaceutical
"Drug Registration" will encourage powerfulmanufacturing hub to Asia, led the trend, China will
enterprises, especially enterprises increasehave more and more enterprises patent expiration
independent R & D, improve innovation, moregeneric products carry more bulk drugs, formulations
companies from tapping the potential development ofand other products of international production, R
the internal power source or through foreign technical& D outsourcing, commissioned to carry out
cooperation to find new breakthrough. Statedrugs clinical trials, more extensive participation in
promulgated the "Guiding Catalogue Industrialinternational division of labor and cooperation even
Restructuring (2007 version)," to limit the productionmore refined.