Medical device products are an important basis for the construction of medical and health system. The medical device industry is highly strategic, driving and growing. Its strategic position has been widely valued by all countries in the world, and has become an important symbol of a country's scientific and technological progress and the level of national economic modernization.
For a long time, China's medical equipment industry has developed at a low level. Large and medium-sized, high-end medical equipment, high-value medical materials and high-end implants, such as CT, MRI, PET/CT, high-performance color Doppler ultrasound, mainly rely on imports. In recent years, the proportion of imports in the grass-roots market is also rising. Imported medical equipment products bring huge economic burden, but also cause unreasonable growth in medical costs and patients "difficult, expensive" an important factor. In the critical period of intensifying industrial competition and deepening the implementation of China's medical reform, it is essential to strengthen the scientific and technological layout in this field and effectively enhance the technical competitiveness and industrial competitiveness of China's medical devices.
Since the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the field of medical devices has been included in the strategic focus of China's scientific and technological development. The Ministry of Science and Technology has formulated the Special Plan for the Development of Medical Device Science and Technology Industry (2011-2015), established a strategic alliance for technological innovation in the medical device industry, initiated and implemented the Key Specialities of Medical Devices, and has invested 1.2 billion yuan in national funds. This is the case. Focusing on the three directions of "upgrading at the grass-roots level, breaking through at the high end and innovating at the frontier", the "Key Specialized Medical Devices" highlights the urgent need for the construction of the current grass-roots medical and health system, focuses on solving the problem that China's high-end medical equipment products mainly rely on imports, prospectively deploys the frontier direction of future industrial development, and emphasizes on the basis of top-level design. Point layout of 20 major strategic products, 10 frontier technologies and 10 grassroots application solutions.
After more than two years of research and development, with the promotion of the key scientific and technological projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, major products in the field of medical devices in China have made continuous breakthroughs, and innovative achievements have emerged intensively. A series of important breakthroughs have been made, such as "independent originality", "from scratch" and "from low to high". A number of digital, intelligent and convenient products have been made. The application of portable innovative medical device products to grass-roots medical institutions has greatly enhanced the endogenous motive force and innovative vitality of independent innovation in the field of medical devices in China. The practice of "innovation-driven development" in the field of medical devices has taken the lead in breaking through, and the localization of medical devices has entered a new phase of great development.
At present, the strategic objectives of the 12th Five-Year Plan set by the key scientific and technological projects of medical devices are gradually being realized. X-ray machine, ultrasound, biochemistry and other grass-roots new "three big pieces" all-line technology upgrade, MRI, color Doppler ultrasound, CT, PET/CT and other high-end products have been successfully localized. The average purchase cost of domestic medical devices is 30% cheaper than that of imported brands, which provides important support for the popularization and upgrading of high-end medical imaging equipment in medical institutions at all levels, and provides equipment support for the smooth progress of China's medical reform.
In the process of promoting the organization and implementation of key items of medical devices, the Ministry of Science and Technology has continuously improved its organizational system, work system and research and development system on the basis of system thinking and top-level design. Organizationally, we should strive to promote the in-depth integration of industry, university, research and medicine, fully mobilize the initiative of multi-innovative subjects; implement enterprise as the main body, establish an effective benefit-driven mechanism, optimize the task layout and resource allocation; highlight the key points in management, and focus on the process management of 20 major strategic products with outstanding demand. At present, it has basically formed an organizational promotion and management mechanism with enterprises as the main body, industry, University and medicine as the cooperative promotion, graded responsibility of experts in various fields, projects and major product responsibilities, and tracing the whole process. The implementation of the special project is progressing smoothly, which is stimulating innovation vitality, gathering innovation elements, building innovation teams and perfecting innovation chain. To optimize the innovation environment and other aspects of initial results, showing a good momentum of development.

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