The Revelatory Research On Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry

Japan and China are close neighbors separated only by a strip of water, and we have some commons in social and cultural backgrounds. In addition, in postwar( world war II) period , Japanese pharmaceutical industry rose abruptly after suffering a great damage ,and in a few tens of years, it had become being able to supply more NCEs than any other counties (or areas) in the world. During this course, in Japanese pharmaceutical industry, also emerged some conditions similar to ours' status quo which are low concentration ratio, low-grade competitory mode that remains at the level of Price Competition, and so on. Especially, in the year of 1 976, Japanese government abandoned the protection of manufacture methods and adopted the policy that protects the new drugs by drug paten. So that Japanese pharmaceutical enterprises could not copy the existed drugs any more, this situation is almost the same as what Chinese pharmaceutical industry has been being faced with since 1 993 the protection of drug paten had been put into effect and China joined the WTO. Therefore, during the critical period of Chinese pharmaceutical industry reflecting on changing the strategy for the industry to survive and develop, it is becoming the one of the most concerned problems that is being paid close attentions to that we should deeply research the features of Japanese pharmaceutical industrial grow path to search some good methods for reference.The paper consists of four parts, they are: Positive analysis of Japanese pharmaceutical industrial organization; Analysis on the effectiveness of Japanese policies on the pharmaceutical industry; Analysis on the respective characteristics of the growing stages of Japanese pharmaceutical industry; And at last, the enlightenments for the development of Chinese pharmaceutical industry.1 , Through the analysis on Japanese pharmaceutical industrial organization, in the light of the framework of SCP (Structure -- Conduct -- Performance) which constitutes the principal part of the theory of industrial organization, we get the following results: The structure of Japanese pharmaceutical industry is not very reasonable, which is embodied by its low concentration ratio; The conducts mainly reflects its productAbstractdifferentiation; And the performance is very good.In the part of industrial policies, at first, we respectively introduced the group singing the praises of the effectiveness of Japanese pharmaceutical industrial policies and the group who on contrary depreciated it, and then analyzed these phenomena. On the basis of the above results, we made a further analysis on the effectiveness of Japanese pharmaceutical industrial policies, and draw the conclusion that most of the policies' effectiveness was running in the opposite direction to their aims. According to the Japanese pharmaceutical industrial history of a hundred years, we divide it into six stages, and made minute analyses for every stage's characteristics.On the basis of the form analyses, we put forward some proposals for the development of Chinese pharmaceutical industry .On the selection of strategy, we made suggestions about concentration ratio, product differentiation and the improvement of circulation. Moreover, in particular, we discussed the problem that what roles the Chinese government should play in the industry's growth.