China medical equipment high-end market is mainly through imports, domestic research should be strengthened

     Domestic development needs to be improved in recent years to the attention of the national medical enterprise, lead to medical equipment of an increasingly demand. In 2008, China's medical devices the size of the market for 90 billion yuan, the Chinese medical equipment market accounts for 45% of the total amount of the global market; In 2010, China's medical devices the size of the market reach 120 billion yuan, and the growth rate as high as 23%. In the next few years, China will more than Japan, become a global medical equipment second largest market. However, the current medical equipment is foreign brand monopoly.

     Bank consultant to the pharmaceutical industry GuoFan researcher ritual pointed out that, in fact, is currently the medical equipment market has formed two major pattern, the two big pattern on one hand is mainly developed western countries to the high-tech new medical equipment industry chain mainly, on the other hand is labor-intensive and technical content of the traditional medical equipment industry chain high. The former mainly includes porcelain resonance detector, body detection and scanning equipment etc, the latter including disposable surgical gloves, disposable syringe and so on. In this case, China's imports of high-end medical equipment occupy more than eighty percent of the market, the reason that has this kind of situation is because the current domestic medical devices with low end the market still give priority to, the market increment is limited, and medical devices in the high-end market, foreign enterprise almost fully occupied. At the same time, because of domestic medical equipment service life and product quality and foreign enterprise have certain gap, so in medical equipment procurement, more hospital in favour of the imported medical instruments, this led to the independent brand market share reduced.