China Device Market Looks Set To Gain In 2013 As Health Care Reforms Favor Diagnostics
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
China’s medical device market is posed to overtake France as the third largest by 2020 and pull even domestically with pharmaceuticals in coming years as government health care reforms put emphasis on diagnostics and prevention.
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