A-share market yesterday suffered another setback, medicine mainly defensive sectors have also fell. Shangzheng Bao reporter from the Ministry of Industry recently released the first half of 2015 the pharmaceutical industry of major economic indicators for the completion was informed that the first half of this year, the pharmaceutical industry growth is also the first time below 10 percent, a record low of fifteen years.

Deputy Director of the Ministry of Consumer Goods Industry Wu Haidong August 22 in the 2015 Annual Meeting of Chinese Medicine Entrepreneurs, said: The pharmaceutical industry growth rate dropped to single digits 9%, industrial growth still is the industry's highest.

Currently the development of the pharmaceutical industry in the economy is entering a new norm, pharmaceutical companies need to shift not stall, but also need to face the challenges now faced.

Pharmaceutical industrial added value growth rate hit a new low for fifteen years

August 21, the Ministry of Consumer Division issued the first half of 2015 the pharmaceutical industry mainly economic indicators, this year from January to June, above-scale pharmaceutical industrial added value increased by 9.9%, growth rate down 3.6 percentage points from a year earlier, over the first quarter decreased by 1.2 percentage points over than the national scale industrial added value growth rate (6.3%), 3.6 percentage points higher.

At the same time, the pharmaceutical industry scale enterprises realized a total profit of more than 126.205 billion yuan, up by 12.85 percent, but the growth rate over last year 1.87 percentage points lower. Each sub-industries, bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing profit growth the fastest growth rate of 18.77%; slowest growing pharmaceutical machinery manufacturing, profit fell 0.6%.

Reporter further interviews informed that, in the first half of this year is less than double-digit growth rate of industrial added value pharmaceuticals, it has hit the lowest level in fifteen years since, before this, the pharmaceutical industry is less than double-digit growth in the last century or something ʱ?? As a comparison, the 2013 and 2014 pharmaceutical industrial added value growth rate of 18% and 13%.

In response, Deputy Director of Consumer Goods Industry Ministry Wu Haidong in 2015 Annual China Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs said: The need to understand the normal growth rate, 9.9% industrial growth rate is still the highest in the industry pharmaceutical industry economic development needs shift. not stall, but also need to face the challenges now faced.