Four key Asian markets witnessed nearly 200 life science company listings over the past 10 years, with China dominating the scene and expected to stay ahead, along with Hong Kong, for the foreseeable future. But India could prove a new contender over time as firms move up the value chain, a new report shows.

The China National Biotec Group has filed the first application in China for the broad use of a COVID-19 vaccine, days after the national regulatory agency released review guidelines for the conditional approval of such products.

Increasingly looking to China to commercialize their latest therapies, multinationals may be leaping into unknown waters to navigate an intellectual property judiciary and administrative maze, in a country where some copy drugs have been approved before patent expiry. With a government trying to balance innovation and access, two recent rulings involving AstraZeneca shed rare light onto China’s protections for innovation, with advisors pointing to challenges and success factors.