Changes in the international trade market | How to deal with China's medical device companies

Medical Network April 20 hearing Recently, the US Trade Representative Office announced the list of Chinese products to be imposed tariffs, from syringes, needles, to cotton wool, gauze, bandages and other hemostatic materials, and then to the ultrasound scan electronic diagnostic equipment, surgical Magnetic resonance imaging diagnostic equipment and other high-end imaging equipment, as well as artificial joints and other high-value consumables, almost covering the country's major export and export faster medical device varieties.

According to statistics from China Customs, in 2017, China's exports of medical devices to the United States reached 5.838 billion U.S. dollars, far exceeding Japan’s 1.478 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 5.08% year-on-year, and the year-on-year increase in medical device exports rose by 5.84% year-on-year. Flat.

Then, in the face of the ever-changing international trade market, how should China's medical device companies respond?

'Trade disputes will have a greater impact on foreign-funded enterprises in China, but will have little impact on ethnic companies and will have a certain impact on Sino-U.S. trade in the coming period, but international trade communication and mutual benefit will not be the mainstream trend. Change. ' China medicine Health products Secretary-General of the Import and Export Chamber of Commerce Cai Tianzhi thinks.

According to industry association research, China medical instruments produce enterprise R&D investment averages only 2%~3% of sales. Statistics show that in 2016, the top 20 medical device manufacturers in China's main business income, operating income totaled 50.319 billion yuan, R&D investment 2.27 billion yuan, R&D investment The average proportion of operating revenue is 4.51%. More experts believe that most of China's medical device manufacturing companies are small in scale and have few R&D personnel. Therefore, most companies are researching imitation, the original innovation ability is weak, and the number of independent innovation products is small.

'The poor level of domestic medical equipment technology, inadequate manufacturing levels has always been a pain point that has plagued China's medical device industry. 'Shanghai health Jiang Haihong, director of medical product management at the Medical School, believes that the lack of technology and talent is still a problem faced by China's medical device industry.

'International trade has a lot of irresistible factors. Therefore, national enterprises must first base themselves on the domestic market, stand firm on the domestic market, speak with technology and quality in order to cope with this sudden, artificially irresistible factor that leads to international market risks.' Jiang Haihong suggested that domestic medical device manufacturers should pay attention to the improvement of research and development capabilities and technological levels, increase R&D investment, change the concept of research and development, and achieve a double improvement in technology and quality. At the same time, we must increase the training of professional R&D personnel and management personnel. Expert think tanks in related fields provide intellectual support and manpower protection for the development of enterprises and the formulation of national policies. Finally, we must also pay attention to improving intellectual property protection and defense awareness.

In the domestic high-tech enterprises that engaged in the production of orthopaedic supplies earlier, Qiu Wanyu, deputy general manager of Beijing Fule Technology Development Co., Ltd., also stated that, fundamentally speaking, medical device manufacturers are trying their best to catch up with R&D innovations. At the same time, we must also change our ideological consciousness, change the thinking formula that only focused on domestic patent applications, increase the holding rate of international patents, and launch a patent defense strategy. After all, the expansion of foreign trade is an irresistible trend. We must do a good job of export expansion for future products. ready.