Under the epidemic situation, Guangdong Province's national leading position in medical devices has been further stabilized

Medical devices refer to instruments, equipment, appliances, in vitro diagnostic reagents and calibrators, materials, and other similar or related items that are directly or indirectly used in the human body, including required computer software. The purpose is disease diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, Treatment or mitigation; diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, mitigation or functional compensation of injury; examination of physiological structures or processes, replacement of bulbs, regulation or support; life support or maintenance; pregnancy control by examination of samples from humans, Provide information for medical or diagnostic purposes. From the perspective of the regional distribution of listed companies (Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks), as of the end of July 2020, there were 69 listed medical device companies in the country, of which Guangdong Province had the largest number of listed companies, 17, accounting for the national total. The proportion of the number of listed medical device companies is 24.64 percent; the total revenue of listed medical device companies in Guangdong Province is 35.6 billion yuan, accounting for 29.14 percent of the revenue of listed medical device companies in the country. Affected by the epidemic in 2020, the production and operation of the medical device industry in Guangdong Province The number of enterprises has increased, and the regional concentration of operating enterprises has been further improved.

——Policy support for the medical device industry in Guangdong Province
After years of continuous development, Guangdong Province has formed a number of medical device industry clusters in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan and other core areas of the Pearl River Delta. Continue to make various efforts for the sustainable and healthy development of Guangdong's medical device industry. In recent years, Guangdong Province has issued a number of policy documents to further promote the standardized operation of alternative tubes in the medical device market.

——The position of Guangdong medical devices in the industry

According to the statistics of Yaozhi.com, as of the end of April 2019, there were about 18,800 medical device companies in China, of which 3,743 were in Guangdong, accounting for 19.91 percent of the national total. From the perspective of the regional distribution of listed companies (Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks), as of At the end of July 2020, there were 69 listed medical device companies in the country, of which 17 were listed in Guangdong Province, accounting for 24.64% of the total number of listed medical device companies in the country; the total revenue of listed medical device companies in Guangdong Province was 35.6 billion. Yuan, accounting for 29.14% of the revenue of listed medical enterprises nationwide.

During the period from Q1 in 2019 to Q1 in 2020, the number of domestic first-class medical device filings and domestic class-2 medical device registration certificates in Guangdong Province generally showed a steady increase.
In the first quarter of 2020, the province approved 316 initial registrations of Class 2 medical devices, 260 continued registrations, and 128 changes to licensing matters. As of the end of March 2020, the province had a total of 11,341 domestic Class 1 medical devices filed, and domestic Class 2 medical devices. 8023 medical device registration certificates.

——Situation of medical device manufacturers in Guangdong Province

According to data from the Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration, there were 3,235 medical device manufacturers in Guangdong Province in 2019, a year-on-year increase of 24.5 percent, and there were 1,778 Class I companies. The total number of prefectures and cities is 1,348, accounting for 75.8 percent of the province; 1,637 in Class 2 and 221 in Class 3.

In the first quarter of 2020, there were 3,181 medical device manufacturers in the province, a year-on-year increase of 15.4 percent, and there were 2,131 first-class enterprises. The cities with the highest number of first-class enterprises were Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Foshan. The total number of the three cities was 1,596. There are 1667 households in the second category and 223 in the third category, accounting for 50% of the whole province.

In 2019, the province issued a total of 192 medical device manufacturing enterprise licenses, changed 1054 medical device manufacturing enterprise licenses, and continued 256 licenses.

From the perspective of various regions, as of the end of December 2019, the total number of 2 and 3 types of medical device operating enterprises in the province was 71,349, of which the top cities were Guangzhou (16,166), Shenzhen (15,547) and Dongguan (7,513). The number of enterprises in the three prefectures and cities totaled 39,226, accounting for 55 percent of the province's total.

As of the end of March 2020, there were 125,141 Class 2 and Class 3 medical device operating enterprises in the province, of which the top cities were Shenzhen (61,317), Guangzhou (18,123), Dongguan (8,310), and 3 cities. There are a total of 87,750 enterprises in the city, accounting for 70.12 percent of the total in the province. Based on the data in 2019, it can be seen that the concentration of medical device operating enterprises in Guangdong Province has further increased, and the proportion of operating enterprises in Shenzhen has greatly increased.

From the perspective of revenue scale, among the listed medical device companies in Guangdong Province (Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks), as a leading medical device company, Mindray Medical leads other companies in revenue. The revenue was 4.771 billion yuan; followed by Huada Gene and Wanfu Bio, whose revenue in 2019 was 2.8 billion yuan and 2.072 billion yuan respectively.

The high-tech product manufacturing in the medical device industry in Guangdong Province has a solid foundation and mature technology, and has considerable influence in the country. Among them, Shenzhen has almost concentrated the main high-tech enterprises in the medical device industry in the province, and has gradually become a large-scale enterprise in my country. An important production base for precision medical equipment and medical electronic equipment.

The medical devices manufactured in Shenzhen are mainly concentrated in high-tech medical imaging diagnostic products (such as magnetic resonance, CT, color Doppler ultrasound, etc.), radiation therapy products (such as gamma knife, tumor hyperthermia equipment, etc.), medical electronic equipment products (such as All kinds of patient monitors, fetal monitors, etc.). Shenzhen's strong products that replace the tube are: magnetic resonance imaging system, color B-ultrasound, multi-parameter monitor, gamma knife, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy machine and other high-tech medical equipment. Therefore, Shenzhen's medical device industry is characterized by many high-tech products, high product technology content, large market share, and strong independent development capabilities.