From AI to IPOs, from access models to mobile payments, China’s biopharma sector increasingly became a global leader in biotech financing and digital health innovation in 2018. Here is Scrip's pick of eight key events that captured the major developments in China’s dynamic, highly fluid biopharma commercial scene throughout the year.

Biogen/Eisai’s US filing of aducanumab for Alzheimer’s has a ripple effect in China, where a leading biomedical researcher has publicly questioned data for the country’s first approved drug for the disease, GV971.

From cell therapy to digital health, from fast follower to innovator, China continues to gain traction with global health companies, underscored by its early emergence from the global pandemic and focus on certain technologies, with Boehringer Ingelheim the latest to be attracted.