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Biogen Idec - China You have been here in China for about a year. What were your assumptions about China before you arrived and were things more or less what you thought they would be or were you surprised about the reality on the ground? We conducted extensive research and scouting before setting up…

China Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association First, let me briefly introduce myself. I used to work in Fuxin, a small city in the industrially advanced province of Liaoning which is equivalent to a state in the US. I worked in a company’s pharmaceutical factory for twenty years holding various positions such as technology director, factory head,…

China Association of Traditional Chinese Medi You started the Chinese operations and have been working in the country for many years but recently moved up to running all operations in Asia Pacific. Are you still closely involved with what’s happening in China? I started the operations in China almost 16 years ago, and I started them…

Array Liam Condon, Managing Director of Bayer Healthcare China discusses the  government’s recent announcements regarding its much-anticipated healthcare reform plan, the future benefits of investing in rural healthcare, and the company’s main ambitions in China over the next five years.         It has been a rollercoaster four years…

China In the last decade the medical device sector has undergone a lot of change; China has become a net importer to a net exporter of these devices. What is your outlook as to how this happened so quickly and what the key factors that revolutionized the industry? During the first…

HUYA Bioscience International - China Your business is very much relationship based here in China. You’ve now established a number of relationships with institutes, universities and companies, but I can imagine that breaking into this market and building those relationships was a challenge. How did you grow this business in the early days? The early…

Novo Nordisk China We found a Capital Markets Day presentation from Novo Nordisk that talked about the “rule of halves” – that of all people with diabetes, 50% of diagnosed, and of those 50% have access to care, and of those 50% get decent care, and finally 50% of those reach their targets.…