In recent years, the innovative development of domestic medical devices in China has been constantly speeding up, and the national policies have been constantly promoting the R&D of domestic medical devices. Accelerating the development of medical devices, on one hand, is helpful to improve the medical device innovation capacity of China, and on the other hand, is also helpful to accelerate the overall level of medical industry in China.

Medical Apparatus

China has made it clear that the medical devices in 26 small categories of 5 main categories will be prioritized.

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has released the Solution of Division among Key Departments Based on the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Sound Development of Pharmaceutical Industry. and specifically in the medical device industry, transformation and upgrading of the medical devices in 26 small categories of 5 main categories will be accelerated to become the key point of national support development in the future.

China will regard the innovation and upgrading as the first priority of the pharmaceutical industry, and specifically in the medical device industry, transformation and upgrading of the medical devices in 26 small categories of 5 main categories will be accelerated to become the key point of national support development in the future. In addition to the key task, six policy safeguard measures have also been proposed in the Solution, including: studying and establishing the product catalog of innovative and excellent medical devices by the end of 2017; perfecting the criteria for allocation of medical devices in the medical institutions at all levels by the end of 2017; promoting the standardization of codes for purchasing high-value medical consumables by the end of 2016.

Support the domestic medical devices!

In recent years, to break the situation where "GPS" (GE, Philips and Siemens) and other foreign-invested medical device enterprises dominate the Chinese market, multiple departments of China have released the signal to accelerate the domestication of medical devices, and have successively introduced many policies to support the domestic medical devices.

According to statistics, by the end of November 2015, there were 14151 medical device enterprises in China, still characterized by being small and scattered. At present, there are less than 20% of medical device enterprises with the real large scale and the output of more than RMB 20 million. The medical devices are subdivided into 43 categories, including thousands of varieties. From the view of high-end medical diagnostic equipment market, foreign investment has a very high proportion particularly in the grade A class 3 hospitals in the first- and second-tier cities. The foreign investment in the national high-end medical diagnostic equipment accounts for more than 90% of the shares.

Accelerating the domestic medical device industry by policy supporting will soar.

In recent years, the product demand for medical devices in China is in stable growth, and the whole industry is in the rapid development stage. However, in the medical device market of China, the domestic medical devices account for a small share, and along with the improvement of life quality and the rapid growth of aging population, the demand for domestic medical device market will tend to diversify. The 2016 China International Medical Device Exhibition was held in Shanghai on July 9~15, which integrated the resources to provide the exhibition platform for the medical device manufacturers at home and abroad to effectively develop the international and domestic markets, further promoting the rapid development of medical device industry of China.

Medical device industry has gradually become the pillar industry in China

Along with the accelerated social aging speed of China, the medical device industry has gradually become the pillar industry in China. In the surging competitive wave, numerous enterprises try to enable their own products to stand out in the medical device industry through the industrial design.

The medical device industry is a multi-discipline crossover, knowledge-intensive, capital-intensive high-tech industry, so it is deemed as one of the criteria for measuring the national comprehensive strength. The medical device field in China has been rapidly developing with the support of national policy and the promotion of global competition. In resent years, the medical device industry of China is developing rapidly, and the number of enterprises with production qualification has been increasing year by year. And the spring for development of medical devices would come soon in 2016, the year of opening for the "13th Five-Year Plan".

Development of domestic medical devices would have the unusual effect on accelerating the development of medical market in China, and would also play the considerably huge role in improving the medical health level of China. Accelerating the innovation of medical devices in China and improving the innovation level of large medical devices in China would have the epoch-making significance.