Medical equipment foreign goods besieged domestic brands urgently need to break through
In the domestic medical device market, foreign capital and joint ventures have become the main force, and imported products have formed a sales monopoly in China. Domestic medical devices surrounded by "foreign brands" can only kill a bloody road and occupy their own positions if they are independent innovations.
"China can make satellites and carry manned space. How can we produce artificial joints and screws?" Faced with the expensive "foreign joints" in the hospital, some experts joked, "Maybe only cotton and gauze can be used internationally." Have your own brand on it."
A little attention to it is not difficult to find that the high-end medical equipment used in hospitals is almost all foreign goods, and domestic products can only be difficult to survive in the low-end market at their doorstep.
Not long ago, at the second seminar on independent innovation and development of medical equipment in China, the topic of “how to innovate†has been “chewed†once again on the table. However, the experts at the conference did not think that the topic was old. They felt that the domestic medical equipment surrounded by the "foreign brand" could only kill a bloody road and occupy their own position.
Foreign goods dominate the world
"In the domestic medical device market, foreign capital and joint ventures have become the main force, and imported products have formed a sales monopoly in China." Qiu Guixing, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Department of Orthopaedics of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, said the embarrassing situation of the domestic medical device industry .
According to the data, China spends hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign exchange every year to import a large amount of medical equipment from abroad. Nearly 70% of the high-end medical equipment market in China is divided by developed countries. The medical equipment market such as nuclear magnetic, MR and CT are mainly concentrated in GE and Siemens. And foreign companies such as Philips.
In China's medical electronic products, 90% of the ECG market, 80% of the high-end monitor market, 90% of the high-end multi-channel physiological recorder market and 60% of the sleep chart market are occupied by foreign brands, while domestic products are Mainly concentrated on low value-added types such as massage instruments and blood pressure measuring instruments.
In Qiu Guixing's view, 80% to more than 90% of the high-end domestic medical equipment used in China at present is imitation, and many high-end medical equipment are monopolized by foreign capital, resulting in high prices, which intensify the society of “seeing a doctorâ€. contradiction.
However, Wang Yan, director of the Department of Orthopaedics of the PLA General Hospital, is still optimistic about the domestic medical device market. In his view, the consumption ratio of medical devices and drugs in China is only 1:5, while the proportion of developed countries is 1:1. There is still a huge gap in China's medical device industry.
However, "the ideal is very full, the reality is very skinny", but the domestic medical device products can not get rid of the "cottage" and "low-end" titles.
Lack of core technology
According to Qiu Guixing, the main reason is that China's medical device industry started late, resulting in insufficient technology precipitation and accumulation. “The equipment and equipment have high technical requirements for talents, and they need to be proficient in materials science, engineering design, and clinical medicine. There is no medical device design in universities in China.â€
At the same time, China's medical device technology is not enough, many core technologies are monopolized by developed countries, and China's share of the international market is less than 2%. Qiu Guixing said that China's medical equipment manufacturers mostly use the traditional production mode, many products are low-level repetitive production, the technical level is only in the middle and low-end, and most of the products are low-end assembly.
What needs to be pointed out is that many domestic companies are short-sighted and pursue high profits and quick returns. They like to do “a hammer saleâ€. Qiu Guixing analyzed this. Due to the high profit of medical equipment, some small enterprises can not enter large hospitals, but they can make money when they enter small hospitals. Such small enterprises are easy to satisfy themselves, and they are not willing to worry or invest in research and development. .
In addition, Zheng Chenggong, a special professor of the “Thousand Talents Program†of the School of Biological and Medical Engineering of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, believes that the lack of research and development capabilities of domestic SMEs is mainly due to the lack of patent analysis and layout capabilities. In addition, due to the incomplete cooperation mechanism of industry, academia and research doctors, it also caused the company's research engine to be insufficient.
Qiu Guixing also stressed that because the government did not introduce corresponding support policies, the country did not form a sound market operation and training system, which also relatively restricted the development of domestic medical devices.
Take the road of independent innovation
In recent years, the issue of how domestic companies can develop in the field of medical devices is often discussed, but the “prescription†that is prescribed is either not operability or touched.
It is worth emphasizing that in 2010, the medical device market reached 120 billion yuan. Experts predict that the sales revenue of medical device equipment in China will double in the next five years, indicating that the development of the domestic medical device market is extremely broad.
In the face of opportunities, industry experts have jointly called for domestic enterprises to rely on foreign capital as a fundamental solution, or to take the road of self-reliance and independent development.
In this regard, Qiu Guixing suggested that the state should strengthen the cultivation of compound talents among hospitals and medical equipment manufacturers, and encourage clinicians to directly participate in orthopedic devices that meet the characteristics of Chinese people and diseases. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the intellectual property protection of domestic brands to ensure that their own brands are not damaged; to build leading enterprises and enhance their ability to compete with international companies.
However, Wang Yan believes that under the current situation, it is difficult for a single enterprise to complete large-scale research and development, whether it is capital or technology, or to encourage mergers and acquisitions to achieve economies of scale in order to increase production concentration and market share.
Chen Dongmin, dean of the Institute of Industrial Technology of Peking University, believes that domestic universities and national research institutions should also directly assist enterprises in innovation. The technology transfer of Chinese research universities must explore innovative models to meet sustainable economic development.
Many experts have called for the medical device industry to need more support and support from the government to treat medical devices as an important civilian production industry. The state should formulate preferential policies such as taxation and credit, and provide support for government procurement policies. The company should formulate corresponding incentive policies for raw materials production and equipment research and development and production.
"The medical device industry in Europe and Japan is supported as a welfare industry, and China can also learn from reference." Wang Yan said.
Source: Chinese Journal of Science and Technology
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