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    Chinese and Japanese plunder medicine, the sorrow of the industry!

    • Last Update: 2015-03-11
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Source: Tencent Liu Feng, March 11, 2015, recently, the phenomenon of tourists rushing to buy toilet covers in Japan triggered a sad judgment on China's manufacturing industry in the industry In fact, by contrast, the more sad thing is that the Chinese are crazy about buying Japanese medicine The sad rush to buy Japanese medicine took a turn The Japanese toilet covers that Japanese tourists frantically rush to buy originally came from China The cost of Japanese tourists is not only twice as high as that of domestic customers, but also the toilet covers they bought back are "acclimatized" (different voltage and water quality) Some say it's a tragedy for China's manufacturing industry After all, the phenomenon of looping is also the norm in the manufacturing industry Last year, the packaging and transportation of Apple mobile phones from Henan to the United States was one of them In fact, compared with the sadness of Chinese manufacturing industry, it is even more sad that the Chinese are crazy about buying Japanese medicine According to the survey data statistics, in the survey of Chinese tourists who visit Japan during the Spring Festival, as many as 3982 medical products were purchased, ranking first with an overwhelming advantage, while only 812 toilet covers were purchased Why do Japanese medical products attract tourists to Japan? The answer is simple: Japanese medicine is cheap and safe Take children's antipyretic stickers as an example A box of antipyretic stickers in China costs 20 to 30 yuan, but the quantity is only three to four However, Japan's anti fever stickers are not only cheaper than domestic ones, but also have enough 12 to 16 pieces to kill domestic anti fever stickers The price gap between China and Japan has obviously broken the pure nationalistic color How high is the price of Chinese medicine? During the two sessions, Wei Feiyan, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Guangxi Huahong pharmaceutical, pointed out that more than 90% of China's drugs have room for price reduction, and there is no problem in cutting 50% of the prices Due to the classification restriction policy of Japanese pharmaceutical management, the first category can only be purchased with the prescription of doctors, the second category needs to be discussed with the pharmacists specially stationed in the drugstores, and the third category can be purchased at will Therefore, even if the high price of domestic pharmaceutical products forces consumers to buy Japanese pharmaceutical products, it will not help because of the limitation of drug types It is the non selectivity of the pharmaceutical industry that creates a more sad picture than the manufacturing industry Regardless of medicine is not the only reason for the high price of medicine Many people will focus on the system of regardless of medicine to be criticized It is true that the indiscriminate system of medicine is the source of medicine corruption and the increase of medicine price But the indiscriminate system of medicine is not the only reason why medicine price is high After the separation of Medicine (separation of doctors and pharmacists) was implemented in Japan in 1991, the growth rate of drug prices in Japan has become one of the lowest in the world's major drug markets Even so, it is not necessarily the separation system that has led to lower drug prices in Japan In other words, the separation of medicine is not the necessary and sufficient condition for the decrease of medicine price The separation of medicine in Japan has not stopped the corruption of medicine industry Specifically, in order to achieve the purpose of increasing sales volume, Japanese pharmaceutical enterprises mainly provide academic research fees to clinical trial institutions, clinical medical units and medical professional societies, hold the latest medical trends of various professional disciplines, new drug research and development trends and research results presentation meetings, and pay high lecture fees to lecturers, so as to enhance the medical research and medical treatment of pharmaceutical enterprises Institutional influence Therefore, driven by the interests, there is a phenomenon of medicine authorities running around and not praising medicine sincerely This is not much different from the kickback phenomenon of Chinese doctors However, the underlying rules of Japan's pharmaceutical industry seem more subtle The more important reason is that the Japanese government has adopted a dynamic regulatory approach to drug prices Once the Japanese government finds that there is a big difference between its pricing and the market selling price, the Japanese government will adjust its pricing next time For example, when the domestic sales price is more than twice the foreign sales price or less than half of the foreign sales price, the domestic sales price will be adjusted compared with the foreign drug price level In fact, the interest transmission behavior between Chinese pharmaceutical enterprises and doctors is still the fierce competition in Chinese pharmaceutical market We take generic drugs as an example As the name suggests, generic drugs are special drugs with the same bioequivalence function copied from the original drugs The difference between it and the original research drug is that the original research drug is written with patent protection However, in terms of generic drug policy, the Japanese government and the Chinese government are quite different Japan's approach is to give a certain price discount to the successful drug companies, while the second copy will enjoy a lower discount, and so on The profit of the fourth copy and the fifth copy is often too low to earn money, so naturally no one is willing to imitate However, due to the impulse of local administrative departments' achievements, the policies in China are relatively branded with strong local protectionism This kind of local protectionism shows that small pharmaceutical factories can survive under the umbrella This is why there is a strange phenomenon in China where hundreds of original research drugs are competing to imitate each other How to sell a variety of generic brands under the background of limited market space? Naturally, under the medical system, bribery of hospitals and doctors has become the only way to sell Therefore, the result of different policies is that they promote the imitative ability of China's pharmaceutical industry, but restrain the innovative ability of drugs What's more, the pharmaceutical factories that lack of strength either cheat and produce inferior generic drugs or become raw material suppliers Downstream raw material suppliers not only supply raw materials to low-quality generic pharmaceutical factories, but also export them to foreign countries at low prices China has become a supplier of raw materials for Indian pharmaceutical companies However, the process of raw material production is also accompanied by pollution In this way, China is equivalent to not only leaving environmental pollution at home and transferring profits to foreign countries, but also paying high prices for drugs At the same time, the public will not only pay high price, but also suffer the side effects caused by poor quality after the domestic inferior generic drugs are listed Conclusion: in contrast, rush to buy medicine is more sad than rush to buy toilet To break the sadness, we need to arouse the attention to innovation, especially the encouragement of policy to innovation  
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