On December 28, Ten departments including the Ministry of industry and information technology jointly released the "14th five year plan" for the development of medical equipment industry (hereinafter referred to as the "plan") It is the first plan to promote the development of medical equipment industry at the national level. It is proposed that by 2025, the level of advanced foundation and industrial chain modernization of medical equipment industry will be significantly improved, the effective supply of mainstream medical equipment will be basically realized, and the performance and quality level of high-end medical equipment products will be significantly improved, initially forming a comprehensive support capacity for public health and medical health needs.

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the market scale of China's medical equipment industry increased from 480 billion yuan in 2015 to 840 billion yuan in 2020, with an average annual compound growth rate of 11.8%. At present, it has formed a product system of 22 categories and more than 1100 categories, covering all links of health and basically meeting the needs of medical institutions in China, such as diagnosis and treatment, elderly care, chronic disease prevention and emergency rescue.

During the "14th five year plan" period, the development opportunities and challenges of medical equipment industry coexist. Wang Weiming, director of the first Department of equipment industry of the Ministry of industry and information technology, said that the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform were further promoted, and the integration of manufacturing industry and new generation information technology was accelerated, which brought new opportunities to the development of medical equipment. The global "big health" and "big health" industries have developed rapidly. The medical service model has changed from disease medical service to "disease + health" medical service, and has expanded from in-hospital diagnosis and treatment to continuous service of pre hospital family health management, inter hospital resource sharing and post hospital rehabilitation. There is a huge space for the development of medical equipment industry.

But Wang Weiming also said novel coronavirus pneumonia accelerated the global supply chain chain localization and localization adjustment, and the competition for medical equipment in developed countries was becoming increasingly fierce. The resistance and competition pressure of medical equipment to the high-end value chain of the industrial chain were significantly increased.

The plan has deployed five special actions, including action to tackle key industrial problems, action to improve the supply capacity of key medical equipment, action to build a demonstration base for the application of high-end medical equipment, action to improve the ability of emergency medical rescue, and action to improve the standard system of medical equipment industry and Application.

At the same time, the plan proposes seven key development areas of medical equipment, including diagnosis and testing equipment, treatment equipment, monitoring and life support equipment, TCM diagnosis and treatment equipment, maternal and child health equipment, health care and rehabilitation equipment and active implant intervention equipment, which basically covers the needs of the whole population for all-round life-cycle medical and health service equipment from prevention, diagnosis, treatment to health, care and maintenance.

Focusing on promoting the innovative development and application of new medical equipment, the plan brings the innovative and integrated development of medical equipment into key tasks. Qi Guixin, a first-class inspector of the planning, development and Information Department of the National Health Commission, said that during the "14th five year plan" period, we will strengthen the breakthrough of original and leading medical equipment, strengthen the innovative research of clinical application, accelerate the development of intelligent medical equipment, promote the construction of smart hospitals, and promote the development of "5g +" new medical and health model. In the development of intelligent medical equipment, it will support cross domain and cross industry in-depth cooperation in medical equipment, electronic information and the Internet, promote the embedding of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, 5g, big data and cloud computing into medical equipment, improve the diagnosis and treatment level of traditional medical equipment such as CT and MR, and promote the intelligent, accurate and networked development of medical equipment.

The plan also makes key arrangements to improve the security capacity of medical and health services in an aging society. The specific contents include making it clear that we should vigorously develop health care and rehabilitation, intelligent assistance and other medical equipment suitable for the needs of the elderly; It is clear to develop new medical equipment at home and community level; It is clear to promote the integrated development of home-based community and home-based health care. For example, encourage systematic, customized and intelligent upgrading of traditional health care and rehabilitation equipment such as massage, traction and rehabilitation aids; Accelerate the research and development of new nursing and rehabilitation equipment based on robot, intelligent vision and voice interaction, brain computer interface, human-computer interaction and intelligent control technology, and develop intelligent equipment such as intelligent rehabilitation robot, intelligent walking aid system and multimodal rehabilitation wheelchair.

The data show that in 2020, there will be more than 2300 Enterprises above Designated Size in China's medical equipment industry, with a main business income of more than 410 billion yuan. In the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Bohai rim, a number of competitive leading enterprises and distinctive industrial clusters have been formed. China has become an important global medical equipment production and manufacturing base.

Source: Xinhua News Agency