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.

A surge in Chinese applications for clinical trials for coronavirus treatments, and a fall in patient numbers, are complicating recruitment efforts for the most promising drugs, prompting official moves to tighten study rules. 

In a shocking and revealing account, a primary investigator of the front-runner antiviral drug for the coronavirus in China expresses concerns over finding enough patients for the study Wuhan, the outbreak's epicenter.