Pharmaceutical business dare to ask the road must be taken.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 15 Pharmaceutical business dare to ask the road must be taken 1, the industry is worried about the status quo At present, an overview of China’s pharmaceutical business sectors, which are the main problem is that many enterprises, small scale, operational efficiency is low, the circulation order of chaos. Many enterprises. Pharmaceutical market in China from a planned economy to a market economy in transition, due to the guidance of national macro-control policies and market access conditions for relaxation, coupled with the protection of local policies and other factors which generate a large number of pharmaceutical commercial enterprises, and survive. Related data show that China currently has ‘three cards’ pharmaceutical wholesale enterprises near 17000, the retail business of about 120,000. The United States is well-developed pharmaceutical industry of the country, more than 50000 retail pharmacies only, wholesale enterprises through mergers and acquisitions has also been reduced to more than 70 now. With a high degree of scale compared to the organizational structure of our pharmaceutical distribution seems not reasonable. Although the number of multiple, but it is quite a mixed bag. Small-scale enterprises. In the 17000 and wholesale businesses with annual sales of more than 20 million yuan, only 800 more than, less than 5% of the total; sales, China’s largest pharmaceutical company Group and Shanghai Pharmaceutical shares were more than 60 billion yuan, each pharmaceutical market of around 4% of total sales. With annual sales of the top ten wholesalers, and wholesale sectors are also only about 20% of total sales. The largest retail enterprises with annual sales of 3.49 billion, with U.S. retail giant CVS compared to sales of 15 billion yuan a year, the gap is enormous. And the wholesale and retail outlets in the spatial distribution is also quite reasonable, there are too dense or too evacuation phenomenon. Low operating effic