What will the “13th Five-Year Plan” bring to the medical device industry?

In 2014, China’s “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” was successfully completed, and major projects achieved the expected goals as scheduled. Standing at a new starting point in history, the state has proposed a grand plan for the 13th Five-Year Plan. As the carrier of the Chinese dream, the "13th Five-Year Plan" advances with the times and has such an important and far-reaching impact on all walks of life. So, what will the grand "13th Five-Year Plan" bring to the medical device industry? I will give you a preliminary explanation today.

During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China has attached medical equipment to the components of emerging industries, and it has been highly valued, and the entire medical device industry has also experienced rapid development. Recently, one of the "four comprehensives" proposed by Mr. Xi is to promote a well-off society in an all-round way, but the overall well-being is based on health. The health cause is precisely a very important issue facing China.

According to statistics, there are nearly 260 million people with major diseases in China at the same time, and the aging is serious: the number of elderly people over 60 years old has reached 202 million. In addition, there are about 80 million disabled people in the country. This is what China is currently facing. A serious health career problem. However, because of the serious uneven distribution of medical resources in our country, coupled with the difficulty of seeing a doctor, the social reality of expensive medical treatment. The health field has plagued the country's further development. How to solve this big problem, in the face of the current uneven distribution of medical resources in China, the high-quality medical equipment is mostly imported and the medical equipment is very expensive and cruel reality, this obviously has to wait for the development of domestic medical equipment, through technological innovation, Model innovation to solve the uneven distribution of medical care, such as telemedicine, Internet medical, etc.; to achieve mainstream medical equipment/equipment through technological innovation to solve the problem of expensive medical treatment. To sum up, it is necessary to solve the problem of difficult medical treatment and expensive medical treatment, which requires the development of the medical device industry, especially the domestic medical device industry. The planning of the domestic medical device industry has naturally become the top priority in the 13th Five-Year Plan.

2. Preliminary study on the key directions of the "13th Five-Year Plan" medical device strategic planning

At the 4th CEO Conference of Medical Device Industry, Investment and M&A on March 26th, Prof. Fan Yubo, Chairman of the China Biomedical Engineering Society and Dean of the School of Biological and Medical Engineering of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, made the 13th Five-Year Medical Device. The report of the Strategic Preliminary, and Chairman Fan is also a major participant in the medical device planning of the National “13th Five-Year Plan”.

In the report, Professor Fan said: "With the support of several consecutive five-year plans, the medical device technology and technology industries that have passed have made great progress, and all aspects of medical devices have made great progress. Through the "13th Five-Year Plan", there is a good opportunity." So what is the country's medical device industry that is supporting the development during the 13th Five-Year Plan period?

First, digital diagnosis and treatment equipment.

According to Professor Fan, "Digital diagnosis and treatment equipment, this will be the key special project in the form of the "13th Five-Year Plan", organize repair and regeneration materials, molecular diagnostic instruments and reagents, artificial organs and life support equipment, health testing equipment. These five aspects, for example, will also have a task layout around the old-age and healthy, disabled people."

Second, high-end medical imaging products.

At present, most of the products used in domestic hospitals rely on imports, and their core components and some medical detectors, software systems, high-performance ultrasound, integrated diagnosis and treatment systems, and a new generation of X-ray machines and other large-scale medical equipment need to be localized. Professor Fan said: "The combination of imaging and radiotherapy for cancer treatment equipment should be supported in the "13th Five-Year Plan", especially the radiotherapy system combined with high-end imaging equipment has a good foundation in the 12th Five-Year Plan." The 13th Five-Year Plan will continue to support."

Third, medical biomaterials, especially renewable restoration materials.

In addition, Professor Fan also mentioned that absorbable materials, bone nails, bone plate absorbable materials, etc., as well as some high-end implants will be an important direction of the "13th Five-Year Plan".

When talking about the current hot 3D printing, Professor Fan said: "Individualized surgical assistance has become an important trend, and the equipment for personalized treatment combined with 3D printing is particularly lacking in characterization, evaluation and personalization. The production system is not a combination of simple doctors and 3D printers, but 3D printing uses what is being done in the medical field, designing something, and how to direct existing products. This is the solution that needs to be solved."

At present, the development of IVD industry can be described as non-fast, and new methods, reagents, chips and instruments will be continuously introduced in various new optoelectronic technologies and new biomaterials and nanotechnology fields. Professor Fan believes that this field is also a hot spot. Is an area that needs support.

Because smart medical care can help solve the problem of uneven distribution of medical resources, Professor Fan believes that the intelligent terminals and watches on the market currently have very limited carrying functions. How to develop medical information monitoring and health information Monitoring, evaluation, and regulation of terminals or software systems or hardware terminals is a top priority in the medical device industry. "Otherwise, only a few watch pedometers and so on are very limited and cannot bear the high hopes we give!" Professor Fan called for "a large amount of health information and intelligent detection of medical information, miniaturization, convenience, etc. We do this industry!"

3. The Ministry of Science and Technology plans to set up a major project to fully promote the development of the medical device industry.

In the report, Prof. Fan revealed that during the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the state may establish several more major projects, such as major projects. Its magnitude is relatively large, and there will definitely be one in the health field! Similar to the original medical and infectious diseases major projects, more than that project, the medical equipment and so on as a core.

The formulation of the "13th Five-Year Plan" will undoubtedly have a major and far-reaching impact on the development of the domestic medical device technology industry. National "Thirteen Five" focus on the medical device industry is self-evident, the medical device industry in China made the show in "Thirteen Five" ushered in the explosion!

"The use of government, industry, research and development, the addition of politics, the integration of government, industry, research and research, has made our country's medical equipment have a leap-forward development!" Professor Fan finally hopes with confidence.