healthcare

PROFESSOR MONIQUE SIMMONDS, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE AT THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AT KEW, TALKS TO GABRIELLE JAFFE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF TCM AND WHAT HER ORGANISATION IS DOING TO MAKE IT SAFER FOR USERS AND BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.   The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) industry is worth over £30 billion and is only set to grow as interest increases worldwide and the Chinese government heavily pushes …

In 2019, AstraZeneca China launched the I-Campus – a health-tech incubator – in collaboration with the Wuxi local government. Here Michael Lai, General Manager of AstraZeneca China, talks more about the project and China’s growing healthcare sector What is the I-Campus exactly? I·Campus is a one-stop incubation platform for life science innovation companies. It will land, incubate, accelerate, and scale up both domestic and overseas life science companies with support …

Yan Bin is Chairman of the Reignwood Group and a member of the 13th National Committee of CPPCC. Here he talks about his role as an advisor to the Chinese government   As a CPPCC committee member, what are your thoughts on the way the Chinese government has handled COVID-19 so far? The two sessions were delayed this year from March to May due to pandemic. When the Coronavirus disrupted …

Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt is the Minister for investment jointly at the Department for International Trade, and at the department for Business, energy and industrial strategy. He spoke to CBBC members about his role, his ambitions to support British business in China and the future of trade in a post virus world.  In his role as double minister, Lord Grimstone’s role is, he says, simply to attract investment into …

As China gets older, the country faces huge challenges but what could a booming senior services sector mean for British business? asks Amy Snelling Forecasts about China’s rapidly greying population paint an ailing picture of the country nicknamed the ‘World’s Factory’ largely for its seemingly infinite manufacturing workforce that both it and global markets have come to depend on. At the end of 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics put …

With technological and social changes transforming the food market in China, British business can thrive if marketed correctly, writes Tom Pattinson Retail in China, like much of the rest of the world, has been steadily moving online, and food retail is no exception with big players such as JD.com, Alibaba and Taobao now selling food. This has had an impact on traditional bricks and mortar food retail stores and a …

Healthcare reforms have improved China’s medical care significantly in recent years. An upcoming UK-China Oncology Congress will go a step further in helping cancer patients, writes Tom Pattinson Healthcare reform in China has helped improve the lives of millions in recent years. “Healthy China 2020” plans to provide universal healthcare and treatment for all by 2020, and in 2016, “Healthy China 2030” was launched to further promote healthy living and …

AstraZeneca has been in China now for 25 years, what have you learnt along the way? We are always learning as China is rapidly evolving. As new challenges and opportunities continually drive AstraZeneca’s objective to reshape healthcare in China, one important aspect we have learned is to lead change in tandem with our partners. While we continue to focus on understanding and tackling the critical unmet health needs in China, …

By Helen Roxburg With the fastest-ageing population in human history, China is heading into a demographic crisis. The country’s over-60 population reached 222 million in 2015 – 16.1 percent of the population – a rate predicted to grow by three percent annually. By 2050, one in three people in China will be aged over 65. This change has huge social, economic and political implications. Although younger generations have traditionally looked …