China's Medical Machinery Exports Expected to Increase by 16% in 2013

In 2012, the total trade volume of medical devices in China reached US$30.062 billion, an increase of 13.03% year-on-year. Among them, exports amounted to US$17.59 billion, an increase of 11.96% year-on-year; import value was US$12.472 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14.56%. In 2012, China’s medical device trade volume exceeded US$30 billion. China's medical equipment trade ranks third in the world, with the world's import ranks fifth behind the United States, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands, and the global export rank ranks third behind the United States and Germany.

Cai Tianzhi, director of the Medical Devices Department of the China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Medicinal Products, told the author that it is expected that China's medical device exports will achieve a growth of 16% in 2013, and the growth rate of imports will maintain at the level of 18%. It is expected that China's medical devices will be in 2013. Total trade will be close to 40 billion U.S. dollars.

China's medical device trade gradually improves

Cai Tianzhi said that China's medical device trade is better than other countries. First, China's comprehensive manufacturing technology has been widely used in high-end medical device products and has become an important part of China's advanced manufacturing industry. The quality of products has been fundamentally guaranteed. Second, China's "Medicine, Trade and Medical Administration" resources have been further optimized to make concerted efforts to promote the extensive use of new materials and new processes based on the creation of medical device products. The second innovation of products has promoted the industrial transformation and upgrading; the third is China. The company follows the international pace and strategically implements the integration of domestic and foreign markets. Digitalization, intelligence, and miniaturization combined with modern technology provide the foundation guarantee for intellectual property and brand building for industry and industry follow-up development.

Since 2009, the relatively rigid demand for medical device products has seen an increase in the global medical device trade with the changes in human disease spectrum and the frequent occurrence of disasters. According to relevant agencies' forecasts, the annual growth rate of the world's medical device trade is maintained at about 8%. Analysis of global customs data has found that the growth rate of the world's medical device trade has been between 8% and 11% in recent years.

World Customs statistics show that in the first half of 2012, the scale of world medical equipment trade was US$215.743 billion, which was a decrease of 3.43% compared with the same period of last year. It was mainly due to the debt crisis in Europe and the economic slowdown in emerging economies. The world's medical equipment trade has a tendency to fall. The increase in medical device trade in China was affected by a decrease of 25 percentage points over the same period. In 2006, the top 10 countries in the world in terms of the scale of medical device trade were all developed countries, and the accumulated total trade volume of these 10 countries accounted for 71.08% of the total world trade in medical devices. By 2010, the pattern of countries and regions where the scale of trade is ranked in the top ten has remained basically unchanged. The ordering of countries and regions has only been fine-tuned, but the cumulative share of the trade share of the top ten countries has declined slightly.

It is worth noting that the scale of China's medical device trade has entered the top ten, ranking seventh, and is the second Asian country except Japan. According to Cai Tianzhi, by the first half of 2012, the cumulative share of the top ten countries’ trade share has risen slightly, and China’s medical device trade has ranked third with US$13.83 billion. The world’s imports were US$104.897 billion, of which China imported US$5.702 billion, ranking fifth, and global exports were US$110.914 billion, of which China exported US$8.127 billion, ranking third.

Cai Tianzhi stated that China, as an emerging economy, still has many gaps compared with developed countries. Mainly because developed countries have a dominant position in the world's medical device trade for a long period of time, guiding the formulation of relevant trade policies of various countries, and even leading the management of product quality, market supervision system, market access system, clinical safety assessment system, and adverse reaction monitoring. Systems and other series of regulations; developed countries have a strong trade position and the country's industrial level and the development of mature medical markets are closely related; developed countries, especially in Europe and the United States and Japan's medical device industry development advantages, industrial structure differences and higher medical expenditure The level promoted the development of medical device trade.

Exports are expected to achieve 16% growth throughout the year

In 2013, in the uncertain world economy, domestic inflationary pressures, and weak external demand, coupled with the rising momentum of production factors, the rising cost of labor for enterprises will cause some international orders to lower labor costs in ASEAN, India, and other countries. Regional transfer. For some of the export trades settled in U.S. dollars and euros, the RMB exchange rate will undoubtedly bring greater losses to it. Future industry competition and export risks will be higher, resulting in more willingness of enterprises to respond to changes in exchange rates and shipping costs. Adjust the export market and export products. At the same time, some companies are more interested in the introduction of foreign advanced technologies and new materials. In particular, imports of domestically irreplaceable products have become more easily accepted. Moreover, if such new products or new technologies are used to produce new products, they can provide enterprises with The ability to continue to grow.

With the continuous development of China's economy in 2013, the foreign trade and market structure will also change. The level of professional participation in the global value chain will increase, the productivity will increase, the degree of trade dependence will increase, the degree of commercialization will increase, and industrial clusters and transformation will increase. , product structure optimization and innovation. It can be foreseen that taking full advantage of the international division of labor and the convenience of international trade to share the benefits of “higher prices and better prices” for China's medical device products, exports will be expected to achieve 16% growth in 2013, and import growth will remain at 18%. In 2013, the total volume of medical equipment trade in China will reach nearly 40 billion U.S. dollars.

For this year's medical device department's work process, Cai Tianzhi told the author that the "China Medical Device Trade Yearbook" compiled by the Medical Insurance Association is the only large-scale reference book and informational annual publication in the field of domestic medical device trade. It has now published two volumes this year. The "Yearbook" will add industrial content on the basis of trade content. In addition, the author learned that the 5th China International Medical Sanitation Material Conference will also be held in Beijing this year. In response, Cai Tianzhi expressed that he hopes to use this comprehensive platform to encourage companies to create brands with quality and promote industrial transformation and upgrading and healthy development.