11.6%! 226 billion yuan! In 2015, retail drugstores ushered in a new growth period in the cold winter
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Last Update: 2016-02-01
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Source: Caizhi, the first drugstore, 2016-01-30, China Health CMH, a domestic professional medical data research institution, officially released 2015 annual medical market data on January 28 From the data point of view, a cold wave hit: in 2015, the total scale of the pharmaceutical terminal market was 1377.5 billion yuan (calculated by retail price, the same below), up only 7.6% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 5.6 percentage points lower than that in 2014, a record low in the past decade As for retail drugstores and online drugstores, the market size of retail drugstores was 226 billion yuan in 2015, up 11.6% year on year In 2015, the drug sales scale of online drugstores reached 3 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 57.9% In the cold winter of the industry, drugstores ushered in a new growth period Overall situation: a new low in ten years! The year-on-year growth is only 7.6% According to the 2015 annual medical market data released by Zhongkang CMH, a professional medical data research institution in China, the total scale of the medical terminal market in 2015 was 1377.5 billion yuan (calculated by retail price, the same below), up only 7.6% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 5.6% lower than that in 2014, a new low in the past decade According to the data of the National Bureau of statistics, in the first half of 2015, the main business income and total profit of the pharmaceutical industry increased by 8.9% and 12.8% respectively year on year, down 4.76% and 1.87% respectively year on year Combined with the data of the two, it can be seen that the prosperity of the pharmaceutical industry continued to decline in the second half of 2015, which can also be confirmed by some pharmaceutical listed companies that have published annual reports As of January 20, 29.3% of the 41 pharmaceutical listed companies that have published the 2015 performance forecast have seen their performance decline and loss Six terminals: retail pharmacies usher in a new period of growth (I) city level hospitals rank first, with stable scale growth For each terminal, city level hospitals are still the largest pharmaceutical terminal market, with a sales scale of 751.5 billion yuan in 2015, a year-on-year growth of 5.8%, directly slowing down the overall growth of the entire pharmaceutical market In addition, the terminal that is lower than the growth rate of the whole industry is the rural primary medical market, with a growth rate of only 1.9% in 2015 At present, the city level hospitals still have better allocation of medical resources, but in the case that the reimbursement ratio of medical insurance in the level hospitals is significantly lower than that in the basic level hospitals, more and more patients choose the basic level hospitals for treatment With the promotion of medical reform policy, the allocation of medical resources will be gradually balanced, and the scale of drug use in grade hospitals will tend to grow steadily (2) With the transfer of prescription channels, retail pharmacies have ushered in a new round of growth Some of the patients who have been shunted from urban hospitals have entered county level hospitals and urban grass-roots hospitals Especially in the context of the national advocacy of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, drug use in county level hospitals and urban grass-roots hospitals has grown faster than the industry average in recent years While another part of patients flow into pharmacies, especially some prescription drug enterprises, after the channel is transferred to retail pharmacies, the retail pharmacies ushered in a new round of growth period Specifically, retail pharmacies and urban grassroots terminals have achieved growth beyond the industry average, with growth of 11.6% and 11.7% respectively In terms of scale, in 2015, the retail drugstore market reached 226 billion yuan, while the urban grass-roots hospitals reached 82 billion yuan These two terminals benefit from the transfer of patients in urban hospitals (3) Online pharmacies increased nearly 60% year on year In addition, driven by the government's policies of strengthening the grass-roots level and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment in recent years, county level hospitals developed rapidly in recent years In 2015, the sales scale of county level hospitals reached 247 billion yuan, an increase of 9.7% year on year, becoming the second largest terminal after city level hospitals In 2015, the terminal non online drugstore with the fastest growth in drug sales was the one with a sales scale of 3 billion yuan, up 57.9% year on year In recent years, thanks to the development of Internet technology and the transformation of national shopping mode, pharmaceutical e-commerce has been popular in China and abroad In addition to the traditional Internet company Nuggets pharmaceutical market, in 2015, we witnessed the participation of traditional retail pharmacy enterprises and other industrial enterprises Market segmentation: the growth rate of prescription drugs is lower than the average growth rate of the market, and the share of foreign investment has declined From the perspective of prescription types, prescription drugs have always been the core of profit for pharmaceutical enterprises, but from the perspective of last year's situation The situation of prescription drugs is not optimistic According to the statistics of Zhongkang CMH, the total scale of prescription drugs in 2015 was RMB 1175.8 billion, with a year-on-year growth of only 6.9%, lower than the market average growth of 7.6% In contrast, in 2015, the OTC market still maintained an 11% growth, basically the same as the growth in 2014 In terms of ingredients (Note: 3 billion yuan not included in online pharmacies), the market scale of Chinese patent medicine reached 345.7 billion yuan in 2015, up 7.2% year on year, while the sales scale of chemical medicine reached 1028.8 billion yuan, up 7.6% year on year The comparative advantages of Chinese patent medicine over the past years have been reversed in 2015 According to the operation data of the pharmaceutical industry in 2013 and 2014 released by the Ministry of industry and information technology, in 2013, the business income of the Chinese patent medicine manufacturers increased by 21.1% year on year, and that of the chemical drugs increased by 15.8% year on year In 2014, Chinese patent medicine increased by 13.1% year-on-year, while the main business income of chemical preparation manufacturing increased by 12.03% year-on-year It can be seen that the revenue of chemical drugs increased year-on-year, and the gap between chemical drugs and Chinese patent medicines gradually narrowed, and in 2015, chemical drugs exceeded From the performance of domestic and foreign pharmaceutical enterprises (Note: 3 billion yuan not included in online pharmacies), in 2015, the overall drug sales scale of foreign pharmaceutical enterprises in mainland China reached 309.3 billion yuan, up 6.9% year-on-year, lower than the average level The share of foreign drug market dropped to 22.5% The scale of local enterprises is 1065.2 billion yuan, up 7.7% year on year, higher than the average.
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