In 2013, the number of single drugstores decreased slightly and the new GSP pressure was relieved

Source: daily economic news 2014-1-16 since the State Council issued the document "several opinions on promoting the development of health service industry" (hereinafter referred to as "opinions") in October 2013, the development process of health service industry has been accelerating As an important supplement of community medical treatment, monomer drugstore has injected fresh blood into the new medical reform On January 15, the reporter of "daily economic news" learned from the China Pharmaceutical Materials Association under the business director of the state owned assets supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council that according to the blue book of 2013 China monomer drugstore industry development report (hereinafter referred to as the blue book), the total number of domestic monomer drugstores in 2013 was about 265500, down from 2012 "It is predicted that the scale of China's health industry will exceed 800 million yuan by 2020 This will bring huge business opportunities to the development of monomer drugstores " Yang Lianliang, vice president of China Pharmaceutical Materials Association and chairman of China monomer drugstore branch, said bluntly, but the pressure on the growth of monomer drugstores caused by the implementation of the new version of GSP (drug management quality management standard) should not be underestimated The single drugstore with an annual sales volume of more than 100 billion yuan refers to a single independently managed drugstore, or a drugstore composed of multiple drugstores, but without chain operation qualification Under the stimulation of frequent and favorable medical and health service policies, single drugstores, which are short of government and social support, industry organization guidance and relevant skills training for a long time, have strong vitality day by day in the pharmaceutical retail market pattern with the advantages of low price At present, most of China's single drugstores are distributed in cities and communities, accounting for about 2:6:2 in terms of urban, urban and rural distribution; however, a few single drugstores are distributed in the first and second tier cities, with an annual sales scale of more than 100 billion yuan According to the statistics of blue book, in 2013, the sales volume of single drugstores in China totaled 134 billion yuan, accounting for 52.38% of the total retail market of drugs in that year At present, there are 271143 single drugstores in China, accounting for 63.99% of the total number of 423723 drugstores in China "At present, the country speeds up the process of urbanization, which will boost the consumption capacity of urban and rural people, which is a major development opportunity for single drugstores located in urban and rural areas," said Yang Lianliang Facing the challenge of the new GSP, on June 1, 2013, the State Food and Drug Administration officially implemented the new GSP The single drugstore will face the disadvantages of improving the cost of quality management, insufficient management ability and inferior purchase price First, the shortage of licensed pharmacists Secondly, in terms of the difficulty of quality management, because according to the management requirements of the new GSP, the quality management level of single drugstore needs to go to a higher level, which requires a lot of human and financial investment, which is not a small challenge for single drugstore on the edge of profit and loss According to the China Pharmaceutical Materials Association, large scale will be conducive to the long-term and healthy development of Chinese monomer pharmacies Yang Lianliang revealed that the next layout is to gradually establish provincial and county-level alliance organizations led by China's single drugstore branch, mainly through the way of centralized purchase of goods and training services; gradually encourage the establishment of county-level drugstore alliance and provincial-level drugstore alliance to form a franchise alliance chain cooperation organization At the same time, the county-level pharmacy alliance is taken as the grass-roots organization, the organizational structure is improved, the division of labor is clarified, the resource sharing is implemented, the operation and management ability of grass-roots pharmacy is rapidly improved, and the future pharmacy is gradually built In the future, monomer drugstores will have three situations: first, franchise, similar to the "KFC" type chain franchise mode; second, free operation mode; third, super monomer drugstores At present, under the pressure of the new GSP, some single drugstores with low operating profit can only choose to join the chain store Through remote examination and remote service, the current situation of insufficient licensed pharmacists in drugstores can be solved and the cost of quality management can be reduced Such monomer pharmacies account for one third of the total number of monomer pharmacies, nearly 90000 The good operation of the above alliance requires the government to coordinate the functions of drug supervision, health care, medical insurance, industry and commerce, and tax, so as to provide policy support and service guarantee of related departments for the convenience of drugstore chain Another part of single drugstores with good operating profit still choose the way of free operation Most of these single drugstores have their own licensed pharmacists, have a set of relatively mature business ideas and stable customer groups, which can achieve good development only through joint purchase of commodities and joint service members In addition to the above two modes, super monomer drugstores will be gradually formed in the future.