Nine trends in retail pharmacy in 2002.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Nine trends in retail pharmacy in 2002 According to China ‘accession to the WTO’ commitment, my country will be opened in January 2003 drug distribution services, to allow foreign wholesalers and retailers to enter the Chinese market. Forced by the pressure after the opening, the state has launched a series of policies, actively promote the pharmaceutical distribution system. Under the influence of these policies in 2001, pharmaceutical investment in an unprecedented retail boom. Listed companies, private capital, foreign capital, have invested so separate ways, so that the backward flow of the pattern has been great progress in medicine, pharmacy chain has now reached 400, with 7800 branches. The arrival in 2002 is expected to allow pharmaceutical retailers in this year only a buffer period, in the nine to achieve a breakthrough. 1, the new tax policy is ready for enactment Although the state has launched a series of policies to actively promote the medicine distribution system, but local governments in policy implementation, but bias, resulting in the work of China’s pharmaceutical retail chain stores two major problems: First, regional blockade, the second is non-standard chain or even fake chain. The above-mentioned root of the problem is that China’s current taxation system unreasonable. Currently operating results of the better chains, their income tax and value-added ratio is about 1:5 ~ 1:6 or so, because value-added tax is shared taxes, local of which only 25% of the actual income tax accounting for local governments the proportion of value-added tax is about 80% of the local government of course can not give up easily, making some areas of some foreign companies reluctant to let the impact to local taxes. Therefore, the existing tax policy need to adjust. Recently, the State Economic and Trade Commission said trade market by the Secretary for the Yellow Sea, in order to speed up the development of China’s commercial chain ent