A New Wrinkle For China’s Medical Device Market (Forbes)
This week, China’s National Health and Planning Commission (NHPC) threw foreign medical device manufacturers a wrinkle: going forward, the Chinese government would pursue policies explicitly designed to favor domestic manufacturers over foreign manufacturers. The NHPC’s announcement was clear: “We want to strongly advocate health ministry organizations to use domestically-made medical devices, especially pushing top level class III hospitals to use domestically-made products.”
Justifying this policy, the government noted such measures...