Broadly speaking, the pharmaceutical industry is divided into three parts: pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical business and medical service industry, in which the pharmaceutical industry includes eight sub-industries: chemical pharmaceutical industry (including chemical raw materials pharmaceutical industry and chemical preparation industry), Chinese patent medicine industry, Chinese herbal pieces industry, biopharmaceutical industry, medical materials and medical consumables manufacturing industry, medical equipment industry and pharmaceutical machinery industry.
The industrial chain of health care products is divided into three links. Upstream refers to manufacturers and agents such as pharmaceutical factories, animal and plant extraction manufacturers or agricultural products production and processing manufacturers. Raw materials are obtained from upstream producing areas and markets, and the products produced are sold through distributors, pharmacies, supermarkets, direct-sale stores and other channels, and finally circulated to self-produced health care products enterprises or OEM enterprises in the hands of consumers.
Health management industry belongs to one of the four basic industrial groups of health industry, which consists of three basic service modules: health detection and monitoring, health evaluation and guidance, health intervention and maintenance. It runs on an information platform and forms a closed loop of health management services through continuous tracking services.