In this issue:
Market Overview: Medical Devices in China
Investing in China’s Medical Device Industry
Case Study: Choosing a Distribution Model for the Chinese Market
Today’s opportunities for foreign investment in the medical device industry in China are the product of a near perfect storm of factors in the country: social, technological, economic and regulatory.
In the social realm, China’s greying and increasingly wealthy population has created an unprecedented demand for medical products, services and institutions. Here, the capital, technology and expertise of foreign firms hold an indispensable value. Meanwhile, the long-standing pattern of China as a low-tech manufacturer and high-tech importer of medical devices is slowly giving way to more China-side manufacturing of mid-to-high tech devices by foreign-invested enterprises.
Economically, the currently fractured and immature market in low-tech devices will likely see consolidation over the coming years, as trade barriers are
