Statistics and forecast of China's medical equipment import and export growth rate in 2012

In recent years, as the country's investment in the medical industry has continued to increase, my country's medical equipment industry has significantly improved the types of products, technical level and quality of endoscopic surgical instruments, and the export scale has continued to expand. In 2011, my country’s medical equipment imports reached 8.229 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 43.72%, accounting for 75.59% of my country’s total medical equipment imports during the same period; exports were 6.75 billion U.S. dollars, and laparoscopic surgical equipment increased by 48.97% year-on-year, accounting for my country’s medical equipment during the same period. 42.96% of the total exports of equipment; the trade deficit of medical equipment decreased to 1.479 billion US dollars, and the imbalance of the import and export trade of medical equipment improved. It is expected that the growth rate of imports and exports in 2012 will reach 20%

In 2012, as my country introduced policies and measures to encourage imports, ENT surgical instruments and increased capital investment in new medical technology, product design, development, and manufacturing, it is expected that my country’s medical equipment import and export trade will maintain a strong growth rate.

As the world economic structure continues to undergo profound changes and the world is in short supply of resources, Tonglu medical equipment domestic and foreign labor costs and raw material prices are rising, supported by new medical equipment products with high technology content, convenient use, safer and more effective Of enterprises have strong vitality. Tonglu Endoscope Chinese enterprises will move from pure trade cooperation to substantial entity cooperation, from the original cooperation mainly centered on capital investment to hard power technology export cooperation. Laparoscopic surgical instrument manufacturers' capital and technical strength will upgrade the technological innovation capabilities of enterprises. If the capital is appropriately opened up, it will further lead domestic enterprises to participate in the international market competition in the form of technology export. Some companies will make considerable progress in the development of gynecological surgical instruments in terms of corporate strategic upgrades, consolidation of technological advantages, innovating business models, and improving the level of corporate operation and management. It is expected that in 2012, my country's total import and export of medical equipment will maintain an increase of about 20%. Among them, local enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises will make greater contributions to imports and exports respectively.