In addition, according to informed sources, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health are jointly drafting a "special project for industrial revitalization and technological transformation". The whole special support fund is 654.38+0.5 billion yuan, which is expected to be introduced in July. Among them, it is clearly proposed to promote the industrialization of new products and the application of new technologies in the field of medical devices, and the key support targets include medical devices that master core components and key technologies.
Insiders pointed out that under the policy background that the country strongly supports the development of medical device industry, China's independent innovation capability of medical devices will be improved, and breakthroughs in some key technologies will be accelerated.
The product structure needs to be upgraded urgently
Relevant persons from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pointed out that there are structural problems in China's pharmaceutical industry. In the field of medical devices, some drugs for major and multiple diseases and high-end diagnosis and treatment equipment have always relied on imports. Being unable to master the technology of core components is one of the difficulties in upgrading the medical device industry in China.
"At the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology began to formulate a work plan to accelerate the development of the medical device industry, mainly some guiding ideas, focusing on the long-term development of the industry. It is expected to be introduced during the year. " According to sources.
Medical device industry is an important part of national strategic emerging industries. It is reported that the existing medical device industry in China includes14,000 manufacturers and more than 40,000 distributors, with an annual market capacity of over 300 billion RMB and an annual output value and market growth rate of over 20%. In addition, the latest data released by the Bureau of Statistics shows that the output value of medical devices from June to May this year was 55.69 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.6%.
In fact, a reality that cannot be ignored is that the sales of medical devices in China only account for less than 3% of the world medical device market. This is not commensurate with China's status as a big producer of light industrial products, and the innovation of medical devices is the biggest problem in China's medical device industry. During the period of1-May this year, the export of medical device products in China is also in a downward trend.
As early as the end of last year, Zhang Zhaofeng, director of the Biotechnology and Medicine Division of the Social Development Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, revealed that the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Medical Device Technology Industry" has been officially included in the key special category of the Ministry of Science and Technology. How to achieve innovative development and industrial upgrading is a problem facing the medical industry in the next few years.
At present, the difficulty in promoting the optimization of medical device industry chain lies in the combination of "Industry-University-Research use". In Zhang Zhaofeng's view, the real Industry-University-Research combination is that enterprises become the main body of investment, and the related technologies developed by universities can form a benefit-sharing relationship with enterprises, and the related core component manufacturers should also be able to form a benefit-sharing relationship with the whole machine manufacturers.
The medical device industry has greatly increased the space.
Market participants believe that they are firmly optimistic about the development of medical devices in China. From a global perspective, the medical device market is facing the challenges of slow growth, prolonged new product development cycle and increasingly strict supervision. In China, due to the investment of government funds, the rapid economic development, the expansion of medical insurance coverage, the growth of the middle class and the increase of per capita disposable income, it has provided a broad development space for the medical industry.
With the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan of National Pharmaceutical Industry" proposing that new medical and health resources should be concentrated in rural and urban communities, the demand for medical devices in primary medical institutions has also expanded unprecedentedly.
According to Ma Qiyuan, chairman of Shi Mei Medical Company, the company mainly develops and manufactures independent and innovative medical imaging equipment, and its main competitors are multinational medical giants. He believes that in the process of promoting the construction of primary medical care in China, the development of medical devices is full of imagination. According to the company's survey, in the next five years, 500 million people will receive nuclear magnetic resonance equipment testing in primary medical institutions, and 50,000 equipment will be put into use.
At the same time, some medical device manufacturers also said that they would strive to make breakthroughs in some high-end products during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, so as to change the situation that products of large-scale 3A hospitals depend on imports.