China's medical equipment industry has room for development

China's medical device industry has developed rapidly in recent years. Experts and scholars from home and abroad gathered in Kunming, China - South Asia, Southeast Asia Medical Cooperation Forum and Kunming Great Health International Forum to discuss issues related to medical devices.

"China's medical equipment is still in a primary stage of quantitative development, with a large number of enterprises and a small economy." Gao Guobiao, deputy director of the Medical Device Registration Department of the State Food and Drug Administration, said there are currently 15,838 medical device manufacturers in China The output value of enterprises under 20 million yuan accounted for nearly 90%.

"There is plenty of room for development in the medical device industry." Gao Guobiao said that medical devices are the fastest growing industries in the health industry and the top three in the healthcare industry for many years.

The "2016 China Medical Device Industry Development Blue Book" shows that the total size of China's medical device market in 2016 is about 370 billion yuan, an increase of 62 billion yuan from 308 billion yuan in 2015. Among them, medical medical device market is about 269 billion yuan, accounting for about 72.70%; home medical device market exceeded 100 billion yuan mark, about 101 billion yuan, accounting for 27.30%.

Blue Book also pointed out that with the healthy China 2030, China Manufacturing 2025 as a comprehensive national strategy to promote the development of China's medical device industry in general showed a positive trend.

In the area of medical device regulation, China has set up four administrative systems at the levels of the State Administration, the provincial bureau, the municipal bureau and the county bureau. Under the guarantee of various management systems, the medical device industry began to provide medical imaging equipment, medical robots, and minimally invasive medical treatment Implant products, genetic testing products and other fields.

Sci-tech convergence and capital concentration are the keys to the future growth of medical device industry. Taking advantage of clinical samples and establishing big data analysis are the power sources that lead the product upgrade and industrial breakthrough development. Institutional innovation and evaluation capability are the key measures to enhance product safety and effectiveness, Promote the development of the industry an important guarantee.

The next step will be to reform the management of clinical trial of medical devices, speed up the examination and approval of medical devices urgently needed by the clinic, support the R & D of rare medical devices, strengthen the management of the life cycle of medical devices, enhance the technical support and speed up the upgrade of medical devices in China.