Last year, China"s medical equipment industry has made remarkable record, surpassed 1,000 billion yuan market scale reached 120 billion yuan, the growth rate up to 23%. Related to the performance of listed companies has soared in 2010, the growth rate of 30% or more generally, music general medical care, diving medicine, Xinhua increase medical revenues reached 36.25%, 64.33% and 51.52%.

Many industry insiders believe that the domestic medical devices market, accounting for the proportion of the total medicine is still small, a huge room for future growth, or even the next five years is expected to double the size. Under the impetus of the health reform, primary construction will vigorously promote the growth of low-end equipment market, the low-end market can be described as unlimited. At the same time, home medical equipment market outlook is generally good.

Fastest 2010

In 2010, the fastest section of medical devices, a total operating income of 6.722 billion yuan, an increase of 29.39%; industry average gross profit margin was 40.64%, up 0.15 percentage points; to achieve the net profit attributable to parent company 1.03 billion yuan , an increase of 24.39%, an increase of 6 sub-sector in the pharmaceutical industry in the first place.

Wrestling in the low-end 2011

China"s high-end medical equipment market is GE, Siemens and Philips dominated by foreign companies is not new. But now these foreign companies are starting to look to focus on low-end medical device market. Held recently in Shenzhen, the 65th China International Medical Equipment Fair, GE, Philips, Canon, and other foreign manufacturers compete Rayco show for the county, township, town and other primary health care institutions to develop new products and financial services, medical information services, including a full set of solutions.

Not long ago, as the world"s dominant high-end medical equipment, GE Healthcare announced a development based health care in rural China, "Spring Plan", the program will launch a line with the needs of primary care market, cost-effective products, improve the network coverage of primary health care institutions to promote healthcare information technology solutions, services and training to strengthen the grassroots. This year intends to establish five pilot medical information and 7 demonstration projects township hospitals, and to carry out more than 300 training for rural primary health care.

Analysts pointed out that health reform in the country to vigorously promote development of basic health security environment, the rigid requirements of medical devices is growing, county, township primary health care institutions will be the top priority of the medical device market. At present the county level hospitals and township health centers to reach more than 80,000, the equipment purchase, renovation, replacement of a huge demand gap. This is what has always been focused on high-end medical device market to foreign companies eyeing the reason for primary care market.

Cake on the primary foreign market, "peep" will undoubtedly exacerbate the low-end domestic and foreign enterprises in the medical device market in the wrestling. Some market participants noted that the instrument has a strong domestic cost, low-end medical equipment in a highly competitive market. But some experts said, China"s national medical equipment industry has not yet formed iconic products, the core competitiveness compared with developed countries there are many gaps in the same low-end competition in the market at a disadvantage.

Pharmaceutical industry analysts this Monita Sha said that the country can make use of health care reform of the machine, to guide the domestic medical equipment manufacturing enterprises to improve their capability of independent innovation, to encourage purchases of domestic medical institutions give priority to medical equipment. Domestic production enterprises should take advantage of new opportunities for health care reform, technology and policy advantages will translate into market advantages, to meet the foreign products into the challenges of low-end.

It is understood that the Ministry of Science and Technology and Health recently held in Chongqing, jointly organized the "China-made innovative medical device products demonstration project" on-site exchange, some local governments to implement domestic medical equipment are sent to the grassroots activities. Benefit from market growth in the grass roots, the first quarter of 2011, medical device sector maintained a high growth momentum, a quarter of total operating income of 1.961 billion yuan, an increase of 40.06%.

Specific to the species, the Sand River on the portable home of the most promising medical device. In recent years, the development of a variety of home medical equipment rapid development, electronic thermometers, blood pressure monitors, glucose meters, disease surveillance systems, portable medical equipment into more and more families. The accelerated aging of the population, increasing incomes, health consciousness, is the portability of medical devices, home of the strong driving force.