The National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Industry Information Technology jointly held a conference to promote the development and application of domestic medical equipment. Li Bin, director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said that he will focus on promoting the use of domestic medical equipment in tertiary hospitals. Speed ​​up the development of domestic medical equipment, promote popularization and application, give full play to the comparative advantages of domestic enterprises, reduce medical costs, effectively curb the unreasonable increase in medical expenses, and effectively reduce the burden on patients.

Li Bin, director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, pointed out that advancing the development and application of domestic medical equipment is an urgent requirement for deepening the reform of the medical and health system and reducing medical costs. Speed ​​up the development of domestic medical equipment, promote popularization and application, give full play to the comparative advantages of domestic enterprises, reduce medical costs, effectively curb the unreasonable increase in medical expenses, and effectively reduce the burden on patients.

Li Bin said that the National Health and Family Planning Commission has always focused on promoting the application of domestic medical equipment and reducing medical costs. The Ministry of Health and Family Planning has worked closely with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to speed up the cracking of barriers restricting the development and application of domestic medical equipment and create a good social and policy environment.

Li Bin said that it is necessary to vigorously promote the use of domestic medical equipment in health and family planning institutions, and focus on promoting the use of domestic medical equipment in tertiary hospitals. It is necessary to give play to the market competition mechanism to promote the overall improvement of the level of domestic medical equipment and continuously improve the performance.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Minister Miao Wei said that my country's medical equipment industry has continued to develop rapidly in recent years, the scale of the industry has continued to expand, and an industrial system with complete professional categories, complete industrial chains, and continuous optimization of product structure has been initially formed. By the end of 2013, the total sales revenue of enterprises above designated size reached 328.7 billion yuan, an annual increase of 27% since the 11th Five-Year Plan.

Miao Wei said that conventional medical equipment with a wide range of clinical applications and a large amount of use has been domestically produced, and breakthroughs have been made in the R&D and production of some high-end medical equipment.

Miao Wei said that in order to promote the development of the domestic medical equipment industry, an incentive mechanism for actively using domestic medical equipment will be established.

Miao Wei revealed that for my country's self-developed large-scale equipment, not only medical equipment, it is exploring the establishment of a liability insurance system to support the localization of the first set of major equipment. Miao Wei said that the China Insurance Regulatory Commission will establish a type of insurance, and the participating companies will only need to bear a small part, while the central government will bear the majority, which is expected to be more than 2/3, in order to promote the first set and batch of domestic large-scale equipment. Promotion and application of equipment.

In addition, the National Health and Family Planning Commission issued a notice in May of this year, entrusting the China Medical Equipment Association to initiate the selection of the first batch of outstanding domestic medical equipment products. The selection scope includes three categories of equipment, equipment, and consumables. Zhu Qingsheng, chairman of the China Medical Equipment Association, introduced that the list of the first batch of outstanding domestic equipment will be announced soon. In the second half of the year, the second batch of excellent domestic equipment selection will be launched.