Since its establishment, the Park has been strongly supported by the government, and has been awarded and recognized by the government as the National Biomedical Industry Base Expansion Zone, the National Medical Device Industry Cluster, the National Science and Technology Xintai Innovation Base, and the National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. Especially in 2011, the Ministry of Health and the Shanghai Municipal Government once again cooperated with each other to jointly ****establish the Joint Conference on the Construction of Shanghai International Medical Park and introduced a series of policies to make the park a special medical zone in the country. In the same year, the medical park became an important part of the core park of Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Demonstration Zone, and really became part of the national high-tech zone.
The park has always been adhering to the high starting point, high standard of infrastructure and service platform construction, in accordance with the medical science and technology industry projects first, and gradually nurture and cultivate the development of modern medical service industry, as of 2011, the park has attracted more than a hundred of medical equipment and biomedical well-known enterprises, including Siemens, Dr. Derg, Anlaojie, Covance, ShangPharma, and Simcere Pharmaceuticals, and other medical equipment and biomedical enterprises. In terms of modern
medical service industry, the park has taken over the medical special needs service divested by the public hospital reform, and the construction of Shanghai International Medical Center (SIMC), the first high-end and profitable hospital with the mode of separation of construction, management and use, has been started; in addition, Shanghai Proton Heavy Ion Hospital (SHPH), Shanghai Tongji BaoLong Hospital (TJBH), Elizabeth International Maternity Hospital (EIMBH), and DeZhou International Hospital (DZIH), and other high-end joint venture medical institutions have been settled in the park one after another. In addition, Shanghai Tongji Bao Long Hospital, Shanghai Elizabeth International Maternity Hospital, Dezhou International Hospital and several other high-end medical institutions with Chinese and foreign joint ventures have moved in.
In addition, the park actively builds an industrial service platform, integrates capital flow, technology flow and information flow, and constructs a grid-based industrial ecology. The park introduces training institutions and training bases such as Shanghai Higher School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Higher School of Medical Devices, Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Engineering, etc., which deliver all kinds of required talents to enterprises and medical institutions in the park; the park introduces other service platforms including Shanghai Medical Device Testing Institute and provides supporting services; the park cooperates with domestic and foreign professional organizations to hold international-level academic exchanges and professional forums to convey the latest information in the medical field in a timely manner. The park cooperates with domestic and foreign professional organizations to organize academic exchanges and professional forums of international standard, to deliver the latest trends in the medical field in a timely manner and to grasp the pulse of the development of the medical industry.
With the unique location advantage, professional policy support and effective government communication, Shanghai International Medical Park will radiate Shanghai and the whole Yangtze River Delta region, and become an important support for Shanghai to build a medical center city in Asia. With the further construction and development of the park, Shanghai International Medical Zone will become the first choice and the place to fight for medical industry developers at home and abroad.