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In this book, an all-round analysis has been conducted on China’s pharmaceutical market, based on a series of solid collection of data, including the micro data on China’s pharmaceutical manufacturers between the years 2004 and 2008, provincial level data on medical resources between the years 2007 and 2010, the data on the balance sheet and income and expenditure of 385 public medical institutions in 3 prefecture level cities, and 150 public medical institutions in 8 counties between the years 2008 and 2010, and the purchasing data of hundreds of secondclass hospitals and third-class hospitals in 21 provinces between the years 2007 and 2011.

Estimation on the scale of China’s pharmaceutical market, the number of county level medical institutions, and the scale of pharmaceutical market of the township clinics has been made in the year of 2012, as well as a prospect on China’s pharmaceutical market in the year 2020.

A set of indicators on measuring the comprehensive situation of medical resources have been built up in this book, so as to conduct a comprehensive appraisal of the development and distribution of medical resources in each provinces, and a quantitative analysis of the regional difference and urban-rural difference of medical resource distribution.