Medical devices, which are used in the body of the instrument, equipment, apparatus, materials or other articles, including the required software; its use for human body surface and the body is not the use of pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, but may have to participate in this way and play a certain role in the use of the disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, mitigation. Medical equipment industry is related to the medical, mechanical, electronic, plastic and other industries, is a multi discipline, knowledge intensive, capital intensive high-tech industry, its development level is a national economic and technological strength of one of the important signs.
Huizhi pointed out that the basic characteristics of the medical device industry is digitized and computer, is the crystallization of the multidisciplinary and cross in the field of modern high technology, the products of high technological content, high profit. Therefore, it is the big country of science and technology, the commanding height of large international companies to compete with each other, interventional higher threshold. Even in the industry as a whole gross margin, investment is not high, the industry will continue to have a higher technology products appear, and from which to produce some of the strong profitability of the enterprise. So the industry overall trend is high investment, high income.
Medical device products according to product technology can be divided into low, medium and high end of the three categories.
Medical instrument industry product classification table
High-tech medical equipment industry is one of the fastest developing industries in the world, the current global medical device market size of $about 230000000000, of which the size of the Asia Pacific Medical device market is about $55000000000, about 1/4 of the share. In 2013 the world's top 20 enterprises sales revenue of $56%, accounting for 140000000000; the industry average growth rate of 6.5%, the top 20 sales growth rate of 10%. In the top 20, the United States accounted for 80%. The advantages of these enterprises are mainly concentrated in the high-end medical device market, with high, fine, sharp technology is the main advantage of these enterprises.
In recent years, the rapid development of China's medical equipment industry is becoming a new medical device manufacturing center after the United States, Japan, and China is the second largest medical device consumer after the United states. 2013, China's medical device market size exceeded 100000000000 yuan mark, reaching 120000000000 Yuan, the growth rate of 23%. 2013, the medical device board increased greatly, the total operating income of 6722000000 yuan, an increase of 29.39%; the industry average gross margin was 40.64%, an increase of 0.15 percentage points. Related to listed companies in 2013 performance is also rising, growth rate is generally in more than 30%, Lepu medical, diving medicine, Xinhua medical revenue growth reached 36.25% and 64.33% and 51.52%.
From the product point of view, China's technology in the field of high-tech medical equipment is relatively backward, in 2013 China's medical equipment high-end products 25%, in the low-end products accounted for 75%. In our country exports of high-end equipment products, the United States GE, Holland PHILPS, Hitachi and other Foreign capital company in China accounted for nearly 80% of the products, the domestic high-end product manufacturing power shortage, the domestic high-end medical device market is Ge, SIEMENS and PHILPS and other Foreign capital company control. In the low-end products, such as health materials, disposable hospital supplies, infusion apparatus, B Chao, breathing apparatus, ordinary surgical instruments and laser class operation equipment, etc., China's output of the world's first. In recent years, the rapid growth of the top ten enterprises in China, the proportion of the industry market size has increased year by year. Since twentieth Century has maintained rapid growth, the average increase has been maintained at the level of 12%-15%. With the continuous development of China's economy, China's medical equipment industry has developed rapidly, and now has become a relatively complete product categories, innovation ability, the market demand is very strong industry.
"2014-2018 China Medical Equipment Industry Market Research Report" shows that the future of China's medical equipment industry in technological innovation will show the four major trends:
One, automation, automatic synthesis and precision operation of medical equipment more and more people's attention, such as medical equipment assembly, laboratory automation and electronic assembly, etc.;
Two, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine medical device products will become a trend, such as digital Chinese medicine diagnostic instrument, it is through intelligent analysis technology, single diagnostic interpretation and differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine;
Three, miniaturization, miniaturization of medical equipment has the advantages of easy to use, fast, and some of the patients can be carried out at any time, save time and space;
Four, the wide application of medical software, it will be widely used in the pharmaceutical industry sales and management information system, medical software will become an indispensable part of the modern pharmaceutical industry.