The Annual Report of China IVD Industry 2021 Part II-I Opportunities

1.9 The state strengthens the support of medical equipment industrialization

IVD industry opportunities have always been highly related to the planning and deployment of the medical industry at the national policy level. The COVID-19 has reversed globalization, and also made China's economic development environment face more profound and complex changes. "Innovation Driven" promotes economic development. In the "14th Five-year Plan", the investment in R&D of the whole society will increase by more than 7% annually, aiming to promote the transformation of clinical research achievements and speed up the solution of the "Bottlenecks" in a number of drugs, medical devices, vaccines, medical data, etc. Improve the facilities and equipment level of major medical research platforms such as key state laboratories; build high-level, international and open clinical research transformation platforms and innovative technology incubation bases for drugs, medical devices and equipment, vaccines, etc. Improve the infrastructure conditions for clinical diagnosis and treatment, and appropriately allocate large medical equipment in advance. And deeply use 5G, artificial intelligence and other technologies to build global leading smart hospitals and serious disease data centers.

For national and regional medical centers included in the equipment plan, focus on building business houses, purchasing medical equipment, building IT and scientific research platforms, establishing telemedicine and education platforms, and accelerating the intelligent transformation and upgrading of medical equipment.

Select and build about 120 provincial-level regional medical centers. Improve the level of large-scale equipment, strengthen the construction of smart hospitals, and ensure the needs of telemedicine. Strengthen the construction of specialized centers for pectoralgia, apoplexy, trauma and respiration as well as comprehensive cancer treatment centers and chronic disease management centers. Strengthen the construction of county-level medical communities, encourage the construction of open and shared imaging, ECG, pathological diagnostics, medical examination and other centers based on county-level hospitals, strengthen the provision of telemedicine and information equipment, connect with high-level provincial and municipal hospitals, and connect with primary medical and health institutions. It is necessary to build county-level first-aid centers based on county-level hospitals, and establish and improve the county 120 emergency network based on qualified township health centers. Strengthen the construction of blood banks at all levels, and improve the blood emergency linkage support capacity.

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