The medical device industry is a multidisciplinary, knowledge-intensive, capital-intensive, high-tech industry with a high barrier to entry. The overall level of medical equipment in China's medical institutions is still very low, in the country's primary health care institutions of medical devices and equipment, there are about 15% of the products around the 1970s, 60% of the products before the mid-1980s, the process of upgrading and replacement of the process is a process of releasing the demand will ensure that in the next 10 years or even a longer period of time, China's medical equipment market The rapid growth of China's medical device market will be ensured in the next 10 years or even longer.
Medical devices are instruments, equipment, apparatus, in vitro diagnostic reagents and calibrators, materials and other similar or related items used directly or indirectly in the human body, including the required computer software.
Utility is obtained primarily by physical and other means, not by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, or is involved but only in an ancillary manner.
Purposes are the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment, or alleviation of disease; the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation, or functional compensation of injury; the examination, replacement, regulation, or support of physiological structures or processes; the support or maintenance of life; pregnancy control; and the provision of information for medical or diagnostic purposes through the examination of specimens from the human body.