China's top three medical device counties

The development of China's biopharmaceutical industry shows a trend of regional industrial diversification, giving rise to a number of regional characteristic industrial clusters. By focusing on specific sub-sectors as entry points and key development directions, a unique path of industrial development has been forged. The experience of local governments in terms of industrial positioning, policy support, and industrial services is worth learning from.

With increasing policy and financial support, China's biopharmaceutical industry is further showing a trend of cluster development. From the national to the local level, active planning and support for the development of the biopharmaceutical industry are underway. The three major industrial clusters, represented by the Yangtze River Delta, the Bohai Rim, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, are becoming the main force in the clustered development of China's biopharmaceutical industry. At the same time, regional industrial clusters centered around high-tech development zones and economic and technological development zones have also become an important feature of the development of biopharmaceutical industry clusters.

In the face of increasingly fierce competition in industrial development, the trend of regional industrial diversification has also become an important trend in the development of China's biopharmaceutical industry, giving rise to many regionally characteristic industrial clusters. These clusters focus on specific sub-sectors as entry points and key development directions, forging unique paths of industrial development, such as Kunshan's small nucleic acids and Taizhou's pharmaceutical raw materials.

Medical devices are a typical high-tech industry, characterized by extensive interdisciplinary crossover and technological integration and fusion. Compared with pharmaceuticals, they require more complex supporting industrial facilities and services. Therefore, for regional industries, especially prefecture-level cities or even counties and townships that lack policy and resource advantages compared with first- and second-tier cities, entering through specific sub-sectors may be more conducive to forming development advantages in these areas. At present, China's medical device industry has also seen the emergence of characteristic medical industrial clusters, such as the endoscope industry in Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province, and the medical consumables industry in Changyuan County, Henan Province.

I. Tonglu, Zhejiang: The largest production base of hard-tube endoscopes in China

The medical device industry in Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province, has a history of nearly30years of development. It is an important medical device industry cluster in Zhejiang Province and the largest production base of hard-tube endoscopes in China. It was awarded by the China Medical Device Industry Association"China Medical Endoscope Industry Base"title. Its main product—medical hard-tube endoscope surgical instruments, enjoys high recognition and reputation in the national medical device market.

1.Top-level Design:2017In the year,"Tonglu actively integrated into the"strong county industry"strategy and vigorously built the"China Minimally Invasive Surgical Instrument Town

2.It has been included in Hangzhou's biopharmaceutical industry innovation and development industrial layout and is Zhejiang Province's first town centered on the medical device industry.2017Industrial Scale:13.7In the year, the total output value of the medical device industry in Tonglu County reached1.22billion yuan, with taxes of28%billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of

3.The development momentum is rapid.Industrial Entities:1000According to Huoshi Creation statistics, as of now, Tonglu has gathered more than82medical device companies, including30%manufacturing companies. The domestic market share of supporting surgical instruments has reached"above, and industry leading enterprises such as"、"Kangji,"、"Tiansong,"and

4.Guangdian have emerged.System Reform:"Tonglu County has built a medical device sales platform and has carried out drastic""One-stop" reform1This includes an informed consent system for medical device businesses. Applicants only need to sign an informed consent letter to obtain a business license,325months later, staff will conduct an on-site check of the promised items. In just two months,2018businesses have moved into the platform, and the agglomeration effect is very significant. According to Huoshi Creation statistics, in the past five years, medical device companies in Tonglu County have accelerated their aggregation. In500year alone, more than130%new medical device manufacturing and operating companies were added, a year-on-year increase exceeding

The agglomeration effect is very significant.1 Figure

5.Growth of Medical Device Companies in Tonglu CountyIndustrial Services:

Relying on the "Cooperation Agreement on Building China Minimally Invasive Surgical Instrument Town" signed between the Zhejiang Provincial Food and Drug Administration and the county government, a Zhejiang Provincial Medical Device Testing Institute Tonglu Reception Point and Innovative Medical Device Service Point were established. This has opened up channels for approval, testing, and inspection, and has realized the functions of receiving products for inspection, checking the testing status, and querying the latest product standards within the county."II. Changyuan, Henan:"

China's Medical Consumables Capital2011In the year,"Changyuan County, Henan Province, was awarded the title of"China Health Materials Production Base2019by the National Health Industry Management Association. In the year,"II. Changyuan, Henan:"it was awarded the title of

1.Top-level Design:by the China Medical Equipment Association, becoming the largest production base of medical devices and health materials in China.2018The medical device and medical material industry is one of the four major leading industries in Changyuan County, mainly distributed in Dingluan, Zhang Sanzhai, Mancun, Chengguan, and Shejia townships in the northern part of the county.2000In the year, the Changyuan County Committee and County Government also planned the Tuo Ren Medical Device Industrial New City, with a planned area of

2.It has been included in Hangzhou's biopharmaceutical industry innovation and development industrial layout and is Zhejiang Province's first town centered on the medical device industry.2017mu. Relying on the Tuo Ren Holdings Group as a platform, it provides a variety of shared resources for the settled enterprises, including sterilization, testing, product design, mold processing, automated mechanical manufacturing, product registration, and marketing channels.80hundreds of millions of yuan, a year-on-year increase of approximately100%，2018year breakthrough100hundreds of millions of yuan.2017In the year, the total tax revenue of the medical device industry was nearly3hundreds of millions of yuan, accounting for9.8%。2017In the year, the added value of the above-scale health materials industry reached26.2billion yuan, with taxes of17.5%。2018YearJanuary-OctoberIn the period from January to October, the added value of the health materials industry increased by23.4%。The market share of dressings in China is70%above, exporting to70more than countries and regions.

3.The development momentum is rapid.As of2019Year2month, Changyuan County has more than1500medical device manufacturing and operating enterprises, with more than6ten thousand employees, and leading backbone enterprises such as Piaoan, Tuo Ren, Yu'an, and Huaxi.

4.Industrial Achievements:According to Huoshi Creation statistics, Changyuan County currently has2169medical device product registration certificates, involving20major categories of medical devices, among which the number of medical hygiene materials and auxiliary materials accounts for32.3%of the total, transfusion, nursing and protective equipment accounts for23.1%of the total, and medical polymer materials and products account for20.5%。

The agglomeration effect is very significant.2 Distribution of Medical Device Batch Numbers in Changyuan County

5.Brand Promotion:The Changyuan government, relying on the China SME Changyuan Network, has established the Changyuan Medical Device Industry Cluster Network. It uses modern information technology to release cluster dynamics, promote enterprises within the cluster, and promote the Changyuan cluster Brand. It has also organized enterprises to participate in the Canton Fair and various industry exhibitions. Through focused promotion and bundled marketing, it has increased its brand recognition and established the Changyuan cluster Brand.

III. Jianxian, Jiangxi: Building China's Number One Medical Device County

The Jianxian Medical Device Industrial Cluster is one of the first20provincial-level industrial demonstration industrial clusters in Jiangxi Province, and the medical device industry is also one of Jianxian County's top ten pillar industries.

1.Top-level Design:As Nanchang City has elevated the medical device industry to a city-level strategy, it has also proposed to build Jianxian County into"China's number one medical device county"and develop the medical device industry into a trillion-yuan industry. The future development of the Jianxian medical device industry will focus on transforming from low-value consumables to high-end consumables, from passive devices to active devices, and will8build a medical device industrial base of square kilometers that integrates R&D, incubation, production, display, distribution, and service, and integrates a medical device testing center, a unified and efficient sterilization center, an international procurement center, and a rehabilitation and health examination center into a medical device industrial city.

2.It has been included in Hangzhou's biopharmaceutical industry innovation and development industrial layout and is Zhejiang Province's first town centered on the medical device industry.2018In the year, the county's medical device industry output value exceeded150hundreds of millions of yuan. Among them, disposable infusion sets are particularly advantageous, accounting for the national market30%and the province's medical device sales reached70%above.

3.The development momentum is rapid.As of2018At the end of the year, the county had200medical device manufacturing enterprises, of which36were above-scale enterprises, and5were among the top 100 medical device companies nationwide. It has key enterprises such as Jiangxi Hongda Group, Yikang Group, Lule Medical Devices Co., Ltd., Jinsheng Medical Devices Co., Ltd., and Beiji Medical Plastics Industry (Nanchang) Co., Ltd. Jianxian County has670sales enterprises, with6tens of thousands of people active in the medical device sales field across the country. They have registered5860sales companies nationwide, and the types of products they sell have reached6000varieties. Every year, medical device products sold by Jianxian-based personnel account for half of the national total sales market.

4.Industrial Fund:2019Year4In the month, Nanchang City issued the "Notice on Supporting the Development of the Medical Device Industry in Jianxian County, Nanchang City" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which will establish a100billion-yuan medical device industry fund in Jianxian County and establish a5000ten thousand-yuan special fund to support the trillion-yuan medical device industry, encouraging the expansion and strengthening of the industry and the acquisition of domestic and foreign medical device companies.

5.Growth of Medical Device Companies in Tonglu CountyJianxian County has established a medical device supervision branch to further strengthen the supervision and service of medical device companies in Jianxian County and improve the standardization level of the county's medical device industry. The Jiangxi Provincial Medical Device Industrial Base, jointly built by the county people's government and the Shanghai Industrial Cooperation Center, plans to build standard factory buildings of500ten thousand square meters, creating six platforms from R&D to incubation, production, display, distribution, and service, as well as four centers: a radioactive sterilization center, a medical device testing center, an international procurement center, and a rehabilitation and health center, making the base a high ground for investment promotion in the Jianxian County medical device industry and transforming the industry from investment promotion to investment attraction.

IV. Summary

The above county-level industrial clusters have established unique industrial advantages. In addition, Suzhou's ophthalmic instruments Wuxi's medical ultrasound equipment, and Ningbo'sMRIequipment have also established obvious advantages in China.

The development of these industrial clusters is inseparable from the work carried out by local governments in various aspects, including industrial positioning, policy support, and industrial services. Various industrial development elements are in place, and precise positioning, precise investment promotion, and precise services are implemented, thus achieving rapid industrial development.