Situation And Development Strategy Of China's Pharmaceutical Industry Research

The world pharmaceutical industry is growing faster than other traditional industry. In 2001, the total product volume of Chinese pharmaceutical industry had been reached to 277.8billion yuan, and total sales volume had been reached to 209.8billion yuan. The total profit had been reached to 17.6billion yuan. China is becoming one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical markets among the world. Now, China is become a party number of WTO, and have been involved into the world economic development. Meanwhile, China is a huge market contains of 1.3billion population. How to protect itself in the world severe competition? How to develop the advantage, avoid the shortage to win its position in the world economic stage? Now, the size of the domestic pharmaceutical enterprises is small and scattered. The sales volume is small. And there is few category is created by ourselves and admitted by the international world. After entered WTO, the protection of intellectual property is increased, and will bring a great a shock on the chemical drug industry. Chinese herb has a long history in our country, however, during the manufacture process, there exist the unscientific way and the regulation is not always obeyed. There is quite few category could tally with the international standard. That make the Chinese herb state in the disadvantage position in the international competition. Medical equipments is a industry which has close connection with the national industry base. The domestic basic industry lever is directly effect the development of the medical equipments. Face on the global economic integration and WTO's regulation, What shall the pharmaceutical industry do to face the challenge?First, we should increase the integration and enterprise size by acquisition and combination. That will increase the competitive of the enterprises as well as the whole industry. Though the reformation of the state- own-enterprise and the adjustment of the structure of the ownership, we could establish and perfect the structure of the enterprise. We should guide the capital of the country to flow to the technology intensive industry and high technology industry. The individual enterprise should increase the speed of innovation, increase the technical lever of the manufacture facility and process of art. We must increase the protection of the intellectual property and to encourage the innovation. Improve the quality of the product and care about the environment protection is the key issue to be winner. After that, we should use the way as combined the imitation and innovation together to develop the non-patient drugs to suit the present situation of our pharmaceutical industry. We should develop the regular products according to the requirement of to our country and the developing worlds. We should do the work to amplify the comparison advantage of the Chemical drug. We also notice the importance of the product standard, though them can create the technology barrier to protect ourselves. Besides that, we will keep on attracting the investment and the high technology from the international cooperation.At last, we should use TRIPS to protect the domestic market. We could reduce the tariff of competitive products first to protect the low competitive products. We may use the time of gradually open the service market to the world to establish and develop the sales net in China. It is necessary to set up the supervision system for the imported products. To make the imported products under the supervision of third party, as well as the domestic made products.