What they're thinking of doing about UnionPhoto Medical, I guess.
Local medical device company Union Shadow Medical Technology Co. is becoming an international business card in China's high-end medical equipment manufacturing sector. Zhang Qiang, the co-president of UnionPhoto, who claims to be "not very good at talking".
"We are a group of stupid people who came out to do this with only a 20 percent chance of success. The core founding team of United Image consists of 11 people, who have invested heavily in domestic high-end medical equipment since 2011. Before returning to Shanghai, some of them were in Germany.
Some are in the United States, some are executives in multinational corporations, and some are tenured professors at prestigious universities, living a comfortable life but with a restless heart. "The same piece of equipment that sells for $1 million in the U.S. costs $2 million or more in China." Practicing for many years.
Zhang Qiang is well versed in the unspoken rules in the field of medical equipment, "Some multinational companies are indeed the world's highest technology, but this high-end technology, in the end, is not worth so much money, no one knows, high-end is not the same as high-priced." High-end medical equipment, long-term dependence on imports, is the biggest "pain point" in China's medical sector.
In a way, this medical equipment imported at twice the price or even higher, directly increasing the burden of medical care for Chinese patients, do a CT, a nuclear magnetic **** vibration, often hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars. Yang Wu, one of the main designers of the first domestic X-ray machine, had said excitedly.
"Every year, more than 80% of the medical equipment exhibition are foreign products, where are our own products?" Radiology is a specialty that is highly dependent on equipment. For research in this specialty to go to the next level, scientists must find the world's best equipment. But over the past few decades.
Constrained by limited research funding and other factors, many domestic scholars specializing in radiology lost the opportunity for in-depth research. It's not easy to build a "Chinese own" CT, MR*** vibration equipment, PET/CT," he said. This field has long been monopolized by a handful of multinational companies, so much so that I have heard of the superior performance of the UMC, which is built entirely through its own intellectual property rights.
The foreigners were in complete disbelief when they heard that UnionPhoto had made equipment with better performance and cheaper price through its own intellectual property rights. The emergence of UnionPhoto was a big shock to the foreigners. While they are highly alert to what the Chinese are doing, they are busy working out price reduction measures for their own products. It is reported that after the introduction of CT, breast machine, nuclear magnetic **** vibration equipment, PET/CT in Luen Ying.
Foreign similar products in China are beginning to take turns to reduce prices. If you don't believe me, just take a look at the products of United Image. It produces 1.5T standard aperture magnetic **** vibration equipment, which saves scanning time compared with imported similar products; its CT equipment, with a resolution of 2.7mm, is the best among all 16-layer CTs in the industry, and the radiation dose to the human body of this machine is much lower than that of imported similar products.
The world recognized as the most difficult to do PET/CT, previously the highest clinical resolution of other products on the market for the 4.3mm, the United States to do 2.8mm, which 1.5mm enhancement of early clinical lesions can play a key role in the discovery.
Not only are domestic products superior in performance, but they are also cheaper, with UnionPhoto products generally priced at about two-thirds of their imported counterparts. And if that's not enough, take a look at the appearance of MediaTek's products. Yu Yehheng, director of the design and innovation center, told reporters.
Seven products in the four major product lines, namely MI, MR, CT and DR, have won the world's highest industrial design awards -- Germany's iF Industrial Design Award and the "Red Dot" award. At the CMEF (China International Medical Equipment Fair) in May this year, a famous designer from Germany visited UNION's booth several times.
And lamented "I have to admit, your design is really great". Because it is a domestic product, the maintenance cost has also come down. Just a few days ago, Zhang Qiang also received a call from the director of a hospital in Anhui Province, the other party wants to let the shadow to help repair an imported X-ray machine, "a board is broken. Find the original manufacturer to repair.
Only the hardware replacement offer will be 400,000 yuan, foreign engineers "clinic fees" counted separately. Zhang Qiang said this is "sky-high", the United States to help replace a board far from spending so much money. Let a domestic enterprise to repair imported goods, in the past, for Chinese hospitals, is simply impossible. It's not that hospitals aren't willing to take risks.
Rather, they simply can't find a company that can repair them. Especially in the field of high-end medical equipment, not to mention that there are not many companies, even some senior Chinese engineers, it is difficult to find. Zhang Qiang said that when Lianyin was first founded in 2011, it attracted a lot of top students from prestigious universities, and these young people were paid much lower wages than they would have been at a foreign company.
These young people were also willing to join the company "for the sake of having a platform for Chinese people to innovate and make breakthroughs". At present, the average age of the staff of the United Film is only 28 years old. 2000 employees, there are more than 100 people have their own achievements overseas, but decided to come back. Almost all of them are "highly educated" -- a group of "fools".
They are willing to fight for a 20 percent chance of success. But according to the China Youth Daily reporter, the goal of this group of "United Films" is far more than just breaking the monopoly of foreign companies in the high-end medical equipment industry. -To narrow the gap between urban and rural medical conditions in China.
To solve the old problem of "difficult to see the doctor" of the Chinese people, on July 3, the remote consultation center of UMC-Jiading Regional Impact Center was officially opened. This center tries to connect all tertiary hospitals, secondary hospitals and community health service centers in Jiading District, Shanghai, to realize "remote diagnosis", "remote education", "remote consultation" and "remote service". "remote services.
To help people realize the "major diseases do not leave the district, minor illnesses do not leave the community". It is reported that in the future, this model will be promoted in other parts of the country, benefiting more and more people.