Winner Takes All: New China Bidding Scheme Marks Price Watershed?

With tens of millions of dollars in sales at stake, a number of mostly commonly used drugs are subject to the first-ever nationwide drug price bidding process in China, with foreign firms seeing the move as opening the floodgate to a potential downward price spiral in the world’s second-largest pharma market.

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Shanghai leads China's national "4+7" drug centralized procurement • Source: Shutterstock

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