Since last year, despite the international financial crisis, the serious impact of the Guangdong Provincial medical equipment industry is still very strong momentum of development: the province’s industrial output value of medical equipment in 2008 the first time exceeded 25.0 billion, ranking the country top; medical equipment exports in sustained growth for many years on the basis of the first half of this year, continue to maintain a 4% growth, exports highest in the country.

        Guangdong Province is a large province medical device industry, medical equipment production, management and the overall size of the number of firms accounting for about 1 / 6. After many years of sustained development, Guangdong Province in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan and other Pearl River Delta region to form the core of many medical device industry cluster. In the international financial crisis, the medical device industry cluster effect and impact of industrial agglomeration capacity further demonstrated. Shenzhen City as an example, two major medical equipment Industrial Park as the main force of the medical device industry in 2008 realized an industrial output value of 12.0 billion, exceeding its pharmaceutical industrial output.

        In order to actively cope with the international financial crisis caused by the export of China’s medical equipment market, especially Europe and the United States significantly reduced the status of orders, the Guangdong government at all levels, and food and drug regulatory authorities to increase the policy for medical device companies, capital, technology and information to support efforts to encourage the and guide enterprises to master the key technologies, speed up product innovation, opening up new international markets, so that the province’s exports of medical equipment to maintain sustained growth. In 2008, medical equipment, Guangdong Province, with exports amounting to 2.752 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for exports of medical equipment a total of nearly 1 / 4. The first half of this year, the province’s medical equipment exports to 51 billion yuan, an increase of 4%. While in Europe, North America’s exports declined slightly, but significant increase in exports to South Africa, a number of corporate product marketing around the world. Which has six R & D centers worldwide and 830 patents in Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. products are exported to more than 100 countries and regions.

        At present, Guangdong Province, at all levels of government, food and drug regulatory authorities and the general medical device companies are for the medical device industry in Guangdong, the sustained and healthy development of further savings and stamina.

        Zhuhai, Dongguan and other places to locate the medical device industry, focused on the development industry and the respective domestic areas of polymer devices and domestic leading enterprises Candeley cardiopulmonary bypass and thoracic surgical instruments area of Kuwait’s leading enterprises to introduce local invest and build factories. Guangzhou Science City in the third phase of construction, specifically for medical device companies settled in the land set aside. Sanshui District, Foshan City, in order to attract more businesses entered the medical equipment industry park, and provide technical support for enterprises, unpaid invested 30 million yuan to support medical equipment testing center in Guangdong Province Sanshui district in the establishment of sub-centers.

        Guangdong Province, focusing on food and drug regulatory authorities from improving the efficiency of administrative examination and approval, strengthen quality control and improve the regulatory framework in areas such as promoting the healthy development of the medical device industry. At present, the province in the medical device manufacturers to implement a comprehensive degree of risk by product management at different levels; strengthened supervision of enterprises of key flight checks; the first province to establish a Medical Device Manufacturing Enterprise Quality System inspection systems, medical devices for new enterprises to obtain Product registration form must be received one year after the Guangdong Provincial Food and Drug Administration review the organization’s quality management system, in the production site of the enterprise product sampling, which will be quality control from a static to dynamic. Guangdong provincial bureau has also instructed provincial medical equipment testing center for enterprises to develop standards for medical devices and medical equipment export target country laws and regulations, standards, registration procedures and other aspects of training.