Medical device history

In 1990, with reform and opening, the national health level is highly valued by country, old hospital number and medical level can’t meet the population growth requirement. And at the same time more and more medical staffs learn foreign advanced technology out of country. As a result, the number of new hospital is increasing, and the demand for high-end medical devices has increased dramatically.

This year can be regarded as the beginning of clean operating room, learning installation process from foreign clean operating room modular construction, large numbers of construction companies and purification engineering company began to transition into the hospital operating room infrastructure. Among them, the famous big company Lingjing, Jiuxin access to more and more hospitals recognized with their strong financial strength, high-quality materials and serious and responsible construction attitude.

Reform and opening also brought new direction to foreign investment, generous land, tax policy and low labor costs makes more and more foreign medical device companies, factories choose to take root in China. Such as Maquet, Dräger, Trumpf have settled in China, vigorously into the product marketing. GPS (GE, Philips, Siemens) three veteran medical device company is also continuing to recruit staffs to expand teams to strengthen the product sales and promotion.

In 2002, the operating room purification project and operating light, operating table, medical pendant business have initially formed the scale, one single product has been unable to meet the market needs.

The same year, the Ministry of Construction issued “Hospital clean operation department building technical specifications GB50333-2002”. This norm is bound to eliminate most of the manufacturers. Before this most of the purification engineering company began to transition. Jiuxin gradually carry out the operating room supporting products and pneumatic logistics projects on the basis of purification projects; Besides purification projects and ancillary products, Lingjing develop disinfection supply equipment, cooperate with other imported medical equipment company in–depth business model. In addition, Meihe, Glory Medical and other emerging purification engineering companies gradually joined the hospital infrastructure process with capital investment.

With those years brand promotion, most of imported medical device brand depth to user’s heart, in order to consolidate the brand’s influence, most manufacturer began to seek their own integrated business model. Maquet purchase other manufactures relying on Getinge Group’s strong financial strength, plump supporting the product line. With the original product line advantage, Dräger gradually enrich the product line in high-level, middle-level and low-level product line through its own research and development. At the same time, more and more foreign medical device brand also aimed at Chinese operating room ICU filed development, set up offices, branch offices.

In 2010, after “the 12th Five-Year Plan” promulgation, anti-corruption, strongly support for domestic medical equipment has become an important topic. Domestic manufacturers have appeared in the major bidding site, holding the banner of national rejuvenation. Various provinces and cities also introduced a variety of generous support policies in order to respond to national policies. In this way, Mindray, Xinhua, Aeonmed, Mingtai famous domestic brands began to become the first choice for hospital.

Imported brands began to face difficulties, in order to reduce costs, domestic factories, reduce expenses has become the main approach. In order to keep the original market share, and further compete with the domestic brands, imported brands also began close cooperation, supporting series of related products overall solution.

In 2014, the new "hospital clean operation department building technical specifications GB50333-2013" implementation. It has further strict norms of the operating room construction process on the basis of original GB50333-2002, improve the overall requirements of the air conditioning system, and increasing operating room supporting room construction specifications. The more detailed requirements, the industry more standardized. Large-scale purification engineering company also joined the ranks of product integration, supporting their own or other operating room ICU medical device brand, to participate in a variety of medical equipment and medical construction exhibition.

After 2015, the cost of medical device registration increased significantly. Coupled with the original import brand registration cycle is long, Such a high threshold established makes most of the foreign equipment companies giving up the original low profit margins products, it also makes small foreign equipment company dispelling the idea of entering Chinese market, and further establish the domestic brand confidence. Looking back at the two years of medical exhibition, Mindray, United-Imaging and other domestic first-line brand booth is growing, and with a sharp contrast, GPS three companies together with most of the foreign equipment company gradually withdraw from the medical exhibition stage.

“The 13th Five-Year Plan” clearly pointed out that vigorously support the health care industry and high-performance medical equipment research and development. Looking to the future, whether foreign-funded enterprises can also continue to sing forge ahead, whether the domestic companies all the way triumph. These should be concerned by medical industry staff.