United States experts say China medical instrument in international play

"The Chinese in the international and domestic medical equipment field has great development opportunities.

23 September ", a special trip to Zhejiang Hangzhou took part in the 4th China International Biomedical Development Summit of Southern California Professor of Bioengineering, Gerald Loeb told reporters that he's perspectives for medical devices.

"China has many well-educated engineers, they have the strength to design many instruments.

"Gerald Loeb said that most Chinese high-end medical equipment or rely on foreign imports. "China has a huge market, development of medical device manufacturers can import substitution. ”

Gerald Loeb said that medical devices are different depending on the risk can be divided into three categories.

"First class medical devices including cotton wool, gauze, and other disposable products, you can select these products are cut into the international market. At present, China has the world's most powerful disposable medical equipment production capacity, a certain scale of production, the number of medical device manufacturers as manufacturers of medical devices in Europe, the United States, including the sum of 200 medical device manufacturers specializing in production of disposable medical products, such as the United States for clinical use disposable syringe mostly came from China. ”

According to statistics, in the first half of this year, China medical device exports reached US $ 5 billion, an increase of 30% over the same period last year, metres exported to Europe and North America, accounted for 30% of total exports and 26 per cent.

"Europe and the market is far from saturated. "Gerald Loeb said:" Europe and the United States is the old age of the population of the more serious, more and more people need to use a medical device, make the demand continues. ”

"In the medical field, China and the United States the biggest gap in the sales network.

"Gerald Loeb said that medical device sales system more complex than medicine. "In the sale of the instruments at the same time, you need to do a lot of services. United States that do better. ”

In recent years, with the international medical equipment market size of rapid expansion, world demand for medical device products continues to grow, China has become after the United States, Japan's third-largest medical device market.

According to the national development and Reform Commission statistics, it is expected that by 2010, China's State medical device industry output will exceed 100 billion.