With people's health as the center, focusing on unmet medical and health needs, medical robots, biomedical materials, high-end medical imaging equipment, artificial intelligence medical devices and other high-end medical devices and cutting-edge innovation technology upgrading and iteration, the capital market continues to inject industrial vitality, coupled with a series of encouragement and support policies issued by the state and local governments, China's medical device industry is entering a new stage of rapid development, showing a vigorous momentum of development.

At the 2024 Medical Device Economic Information Conference, as the event organizer, The Southern Institute of Pharmaceutical Economics of the State Food and Drug Administration (referred to as the "South Institute") released the "2024 China Medical Device Industry Development Research Report" "Yangtze River Delta Medical device Industry Development Research Report" "Medical device industry Innovation Development Research Report" "Medical robot Industry Development Research Report" "Biomedical materials industry Development Research Report" "high-end medical imaging equipment Industrial Development Research Report "Artificial Intelligence Medical device Industry Development Research Report" "2024 China Medical device Import and Export Industry Development Research Report" "In vitro diagnosis industry Development Research Report" and other research results, scientific research and judgment of the new era of regulatory policies, deep insight into the development trend of high-quality.

Focusing on the full life cycle of medical device products from research and development, production, circulation to clinical application, it is necessary to strengthen the close coordination and efficient integration of the elements of the whole industry chain of "government, production, learning, research, and medicine", and actively explore and practice the path of "high-quality innovation and development" of China's medical devices, in order to open a new chapter in the development of the medical device industry and lead the industrial chain to a higher level.

Guo Changmao, deputy director of the South Institute

In the keynote report of the conference, Guo Changmao, deputy director of the South Institute, made a Research report on the development of China's medical device Industry in 2024, pointing out that the demand fundamentals of the medical device industry in 2024 are stable, and the recovery of exports effectively makes up for the demand gap. It is conservatively estimated that the operating income of production enterprises will increase slightly in 2024 compared with the previous year. At the production and operation end, the number of medical device enterprises in China has shown a growing trend. In 2023, the number of medical device manufacturers in China is 32,313, of which three types of medical device manufacturers increased by 21.5% year-on-year to 3,049; In the first half of 2024, the number of medical device manufacturers recovered slightly to 32,806, mainly due to the faster growth of the number of second-class manufacturers. In 2023, the number of two and three types of medical device business enterprises in China reached 1,375,700, and the average annual compound growth rate of the number of medical device business enterprises from 2012 to 2023 was 24.62%. As of the first half of 2024, the number of second - and third-class equipment business enterprises has exceeded 1.42 million

This conference, the exchange of industry experts generally believe that around the major development strategy of high-end medical device manufacturing industry, it is necessary to gather high-level innovative talents, break through high-value frontier technologies, carry out research and development of key common technologies in the industrial chain, promote the cross-integration of medical industry, accelerate manufacturing innovation design and rapid research and development of advanced technologies, and provide revolutionary innovation support processes for products and equipment. Promoting the leap from a medical device manufacturing power to a medical device manufacturing power has become a grand vision for the high-quality development of China's medical device industry.

Continue to deepen the reform of "discharge service", strengthen scientific supervision and regulatory scientific research, accelerate the transfer and transformation of results, promote cross-departmental and multi-disciplinary communication and collaboration, and actively participate in global industrial exchanges and cooperation, which is an important starting point to promote the upgrading of the medical device industry in the new era.

Li Danrong, director of Policy and economic research at the Southern Institute

Li Danrong, head of the Policy and Economic Research Office of the Southern Institute, made two major reports, namely, the Research Report on the Innovation and Development of the Medical device Industry and the Research Report on the development of the Medical device industry in the Yangtze River Delta, which showed that the global medical device industry is in a period of rapid development, and the interdisciplinary integration is significant, which has gradually become an important driving force for the development of new treatment methods and diagnostic methods. Promote original innovation in the medical device industry.

Quality comes from design, innovation leads development. The goal of the transformation of the medical device industry is always to create more user-friendly and high-quality products, and the landing of innovative results is a key link to achieve industrial upgrading and clinical application. In the process of pursuing the transformation of cutting-edge scientific research, medical innovation and technological innovation to meet clinical needs are the source.

Yuan Bo, deputy senior researcher of South Institute

Yuan Bo, deputy senior researcher of the South Institute, released the Research Report on the development of biomedical materials Industry, which said that under the promotion of domestic and foreign policy environment and market demand, the domestic biomedical materials industry is ushering in accelerated development. Especially in the cardiovascular, orthopedics and other fields, with the intensification of the aging society, the rising incidence of diseases and the continuous progress of treatment technology, the market demand for medical biomaterials will be more vigorous.

Luo Zhiyi, a researcher at the South Institute

Luo Zhiyi, a researcher at the South Institute, released the Research Report on the development of the Medical robot Industry, saying that in recent years, the global medical robot industry has developed rapidly, and key products such as surgical robots in China have accelerated their breakthrough, rapidly expanded their scale, and significantly improved the level of localization. A small number of leading enterprises have achieved independent production of key components, narrowing the gap with the international advanced level, and the industry has officially entered the growth period.

Lin Jiayi, a researcher at the South Institute

Lin Jiayi, a researcher at the South Institute, released the Research Report on the Development of High-end Medical imaging Equipment Industry, introducing the development of the medical imaging industry, analyzing the opportunities and challenges of industrial development, and looking forward to the future. Driven by factors such as technological development and policy guidance, the medical imaging equipment industry will continue to develop with high quality.

Luo Chun, a researcher at the South Institute

Luo Chun, a researcher at the Southern Institute of Artificial Intelligence Medical Device Industry Development Research Report, said that the artificial intelligence medical device review and approval system is becoming increasingly perfect, promoting the rapid development of the industry, product types continue to be rich, and the technology is generally at the international leading level.

Liu Qiong, a researcher at the South Institute

Liu Qiong, a researcher at the South Institute, released the "2024 Research Report on the Development of China's Medical device Import and export Industry" that with the improvement of domestic equipment technology, the export of some high-end products has grown rapidly, the overseas layout has accelerated significantly, and the "import localization" has gone deep.

Cui Tian, a researcher at the South Institute

Cui Tian, a researcher at the South Institute, released the In Vitro Diagnosis Industry Development Research Report, introducing the industry development status, market pattern and technology trends, and looking forward to the supply and demand of the in vitro diagnosis industry to achieve high-quality development.