In the first quarter of medical health materials import and export growth fell back

Since this year, the world medical health materials appear some positive signs of economic operation, the United States, Japan's economic performance better than expected, employment,consumption, and improvements in industrial production, the European debt crisis is a degree of control, emerging economies to promote economic growth, policy efforts.But the deep impact of the financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis still in fermentation, medical health materials has not changed the trend of the overall growth of the world economy. the economic recovery is still a hard and tortuous process for a long time, to our country foreign trade brings severe challenges.

According to customs statistics, China's first quarter medical equipment medical health materials exports was $6.25 billion, accounting for 33.69% of the total amount of medicine and health products import and export, up 14.54% from a year earlier.Among them,exports to $3.592 billion, up 11.26%;Imports of $2.657 billion, up 19.29%;The trade surplus of $935 million, down 6.6% year-on-year.In general, in the first quarter of medical apparatus and instruments while compared with the 7.3% increase in the national foreign trade of foreign trade was 7% higher, but the medical health materials situation still not optimistic.

1. The medical health materials import and export growth slowed markedly, the trade surplus narrowed

Quarter medical equipment import and export growth slowed markedly, medical health materials is only 14.54%, compared with 43.76% growth over the same period of last year, fell by nearly 30%, international market demand, the domestic cost rise is the main factor that leads to the growth of import and export.The trade surplus of $935 million in the first quarter, compared with last year ($1.328 billion) in the third quarter and fourth quarter ($1.282 billion) in the last two quarters.

2. Medical health materials export growth to Europe and the United States is lower than the overall growth, growing faster in the Middle East and Africa

The United States, Japan and Germany is China's traditional main export market of medical equipment medical health materials, exports reached us $1.493 billion in the quarter to the accumulation of the three countries, representing 41.57% of total exports of medical equipment,but the downturn in the export growth of 9.99%, 4.92% and 4.9% respectively.Notable is, our country exports to Africa and the Middle East is growing rapidly, 28.34% and 21.21% respectively compared to the same;Exports to Russia market growth rate reached 45.9%.

3 medical health materials. Medical equipment stable export growth, dressings and rehabilitation supplies export growth

Goods in the first quarter, strong export growth categories is medical health materials "disposable", "dental equipment and materials", and the hospital medical equipment.Medical equipment export quotas of the highest diagnostic equipment exports remain stable growth, an increase of 12.29%, among them, the colour to exceed, respirators, anaesthetic equipment and artificial joint products such as rapid export growth,growth rates above 20%.Health supplies and medical dressings is a trend of small decline in export, exports fell 0.71% and 0.34%, respectively.

4. Promoting export growth of private enterprises

Experienced the baptism of the international financial crisis, the acceleration of transformation and upgrading of China's private enterprises, medical health materials in the fierce competition market expansion ability and innovation consciousness distinct enhancement, export growth significantly faster than the other subject, export growth of 16.28% in the first quarter. become the mainstay of medical equipment export growth.Foreign investment enterprises to export growth of 10.32%, the state-owned enterprise exports fell 1.32%.

5. Medical equipment import growth, virtue, as the main source

From imported products structure, medical health materials in the first quarter of China's five major categories of medical equipment imported products, the number one cause of diagnosis and treatment equipment imports for $2.029 billion, accounting for 76.34% of the total imports of medical equipment, share from last year in the third quarter (75.27%) and in the fourth quarter (76.19%), the trend of sustained growth.

The United States, Germany and Japan are the main sources of clinical medical health materials equipment import in China, in the first quarter from the three countries imports totaled $1.457 billion, accounting for 71.8% of the medical equipment import.Notable is, from the United States and Germany imported medical devices is growing rapidly, the growth rate reached 31.56% and 31.56% respectively.Since the new reform, the central government has invested more than 600 one hundred million yuan to county hospital and medical and health service system at the grass-roots level standardization construction and equipment purchase, is the main reason for equipment import growth.

6. Foreign investment, private and state-owned share three cent world imports

And export enterprise structure, medical health materials import market share presents the foreign investment, private and three cent world situation of state-owned enterprises, three types of companies to import the amount of $1.079 billion, $868 million and $698 million respectively, accounted for 40.62%, 32.67% and 26.28%, respectively.

Lack of export growth in the first quarter is mainly affected by the delivery of season, medical health materials but look from a slowing trend, the current export still faces many problems, the export situation is not optimistic:

One is the external demand continued weakness.World economic growth momentum is insufficient, especially the European economy is in recession, the international market demand is shrinking.

The second is the enterprise production cost increase, especially labor costs continue to rise, over the past three years town worker average wage rose 33%, though they have callback raw material prices, but are still high stage, lead to China's manufacturing industry competitive advantage.

Three is tighter overall trade environment, medical health materials relevant departments such as Argentina, since February all Argentina importers before import all the goods need to fill in the declaration on the net, the importers only after approved by the government can buy used to import medical health materials, no doubt increased the export enterprise transaction uncertainty and difficulty.But from the point of import, with the deepening of the domestic health care medical health materials and the continuation of the state encourages the import policy measures, will continue to drive the growth of the medical equipment import.Considering comprehensive factors, therefore, medical apparatus and instruments export is facing multiple challenges, but the import is expected to steady growth, overall foreign trade growth to medical health materials present low stabilization, the trade balanced posture.