Pharmaceutical retail market in China will face a severe policy shocks.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Pharmaceutical retail market in China will face a severe policy shocks China’s pharmaceutical retail market in over 10 years of rapid development and intense market competition, has resulted in Shenzhen Nepstar, Yunnan as one Church, Liaoning Fangyuan National Cheng Kung University, Hunan people, Shanghai Yick Fung, Shanxi 10000 China and other domestic well-known large-scale trans-regional pharmaceutical retail chain. With the enhancement of integrated forces and local market space constraints, these large chains began rapidly to secondary and tertiary markets and a nationwide expansion of a number of small chains, and social monomer in these large chain pharmacies under the impact of the strong, either the transfer or closure of , or only in the more remote communities to survive. In 2006, the large-scale chain launched an ambitious new round of expansion, manufacturers and distributors are optimistic about the absolute superiority of large retail chains, have to cooperate. It seems that China’s pharmaceutical retail market in turn usher in the second spring, but will sing the second ‘story of the spring’, is still too early. Because the state and drug retail market, closely related to the medical insurance system must be profoundly reformed, will be the development of the retail market for drugs have a profound impact. In 2006, China’s pharmaceutical industry from government regulation to the market operation in the process of an outbreak of problems are shocking, and drugs directly related to Social Security and Medicare issues are also an endless stream, ‘a doctor, seeing a doctor’ and ‘high drug prices, drug city chaos’ problems caused by people’s general dissatisfaction, but also lead from the central to local governments at various levels attach great importance. At the just-concluded National People’s Congress, Premier Wen Jiabao in his government work report a clear need to expedite the medical system, establish universal heal