Changsha Pharmaceutical Importation Designated Port is approved | Consumers will be more convenient to purchase imported drugs

Medical Network June 28th Hunan Provincial Open Platform Construction has added new achievements. The State Council has officially approved the addition of Changsha aviation port as a drug import port. At this point, Hunan Province has a total of 9 import designated ports approved. Provincial Government Information Office on the 27th A press conference was held. Provincial Food and Drug Administration, Provincial Department of Commerce, Changsha Customs, etc., made announcements and interpretations on the relevant situations at the press conference.

On June 12 this year, the State Drug Administration and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued the “Announcement on Adding Changsha Air Ports as Drug Importing Ports”, and agreed to add Changsha aviation ports as importation centers for drugs, and increase the Hunan Food and Drug Administration as The Port Drug Administration, to increase the Hunan Provincial Institute of Drug Inspection as a port drug inspection institute. As a result, among the more than 300 prefecture-level cities in the country, Changsha has become the 22nd city to have drug import ports.

Yang Zhongwan, director of the Provincial Government’s Port Office, said that with the drug import ports, imported drugs can be directly transported from foreign countries to Changsha airline port for customs declaration and inspection, and there is no need to re-export to Changsha by other ports, which will directly boost the growth of import trade in Hunan. .

'As a major province of imported pharmaceutical sales, the total sales of drugs in Hunan last year was 109.3 billion yuan, of which imported drugs were 37.9 billion yuan. With the increasing number of imported drug online shopping and overseas purchasing year after year, the resulting counterfeit and false Inferior drug The number of incidents has continued to increase. 'The Director of Provincial Food and Drug Administration Liu Xiangling stated that the addition of Changsha drug import ports can reduce enterprise The intermediate links of imported drugs and semi-finished products, raw and auxiliary materials, ease the problem that people use imported drugs are expensive and slow, and it also helps strengthen the safety supervision of drugs.

'Pharmaceuticals are light in weight and high in value. They are typical preference-type products. 'Chang Jixing, deputy mayor of Changsha, said that drug After the import port is completed, it will significantly reduce transportation costs, storage costs and time costs, and attract high-end health medicine The industry has settled down in the long-term, creating a new growth point for Hunan's open economy, helping Changsha to become a center for imported pharmaceuticals in the radiation-centered South China region.

It is understood that Hunan Province has applied for the establishment of designated ports for imports since 2012. At present, it has been approved to import nine designated ports. Among them, seven have been built, which are the imported chilled aquatic products superimposed at Changsha Huanghua Airport’s air ports. Animal designated ports, Yueyang Chenglingji water transport port superimposed imported cars, grain, meat, designated ports for solid waste, and Changsha pharmaceutical import port to be formally operated. There are also 2 under construction, namely Changsha, Zhangjiajie aviation port superimposition The imported fruit designated port.