In fact, what India has developed is a "generic drug". The so-called generic drugs are actually the same as our previous "cottage phones" in China, that is, holding rare patented drugs developed by western countries for "cottage". According to international practice, the protection period of patented drugs is 20 years, after which they can be copied. Prior to this, shanzhai people's patented drugs had legal risks. However, India has a large population and a large number of poor people. As the saying goes, "barefoot people are not afraid to wear shoes", and they don't care about it at all.
After all, if we make drugs in full accordance with the rules formulated by western countries, the price is very high and ordinary people can't afford it. This will kill people! The Indian government also particularly encouraged the imitation of foreign drugs in disguise, so Indian pharmaceutical companies began to imitate various specific drugs developed by western countries. Although Indians make "imitations",
But the effect is similar to that of drugs in Europe and America, but the price is very low. Take Gleevec for example. It's the first one in China, with tens of thousands of dollars, and India's imitation is only over 2000!
It can be seen that Indian generic drugs are very popular, but they are actually the same as those made in China. Many products in western countries can raise prices at will because of monopoly, but the products made in China are of good quality and low price, forcing western countries to lower their prices. Why did "Made in China" with invincible low price fail in pharmacies?
On the one hand, pharmacy is a frontier high-tech field, but China Pharmaceutical Company started very late and has no corresponding technology accumulation, so it can only rely on importing from abroad. China can't follow suit in the pharmaceutical field like India, after all, it will face serious legal risks.
On the other hand, "Lenovo" behavior is widespread in pharmaceutical companies in China. We know that Lenovo has always been regarded as a "national enterprise" and "the pride of China", but for decades, apart from assembling computers, it has made no achievements in system development and chip research, which stems from their concept of "making is better than buying". This idea is also common in pharmaceutical enterprises in China. High-tech drugs can't be made, so they monopolize the market with drugs without technical content and arbitrarily raise the price of domestic drugs. Now a cold medicine can sell for dozens of dollars.
Pharmaceutical companies in China earn a lot of money, and the richest people in many provinces and cities are pharmaceutical companies. Since you can make money comfortably, who will spend money on research and development? This makes the rare drugs in China market monopolized by western pharmaceutical companies, and the natural price is very high!