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Beijing Daxing biomedical industry forges ahead

chinadaily.com.cn Updated: 2019-08-07

What kind of sparks will be made by combining advanced science and the pharmaceutical industry? To find out, the reporter visited the Tong Ren Tang Health " No 0" Store and its new retail super concept store in Beijing's Daxing district on Aug 2.

An automatic drug retail machine is displayed at Tong Ren Tang Health ' No 0 ' Store in Beijing’s Daxing district. [Photo by Li Tianyang / chinadaily.com.cn]

Services covering image observation, food, health maintenance and medical treatment are provided here. Through a variety of shopping and leisure services, a one-stop online and offline healthy life experience area is now available.

Real-time statistics of operational data of Tong Ren Tang [Photo by Li Tianyang / chinadaily.com.cn]

Tong Ren Tang aims to achieve online and offline connection with users' upgraded digital management data and to provide them with accurate 24-hour service.

For example, the user internet platform is equipped with face recognition, thermal imaging detection, an indirect hypoxic therapy device, AI face consultation, and Asia's first largest unmanned drug dispenser and many other cutting-edge technological resources.

Hotgen Biotech Co Ltd, another high-tech company in Zhongguancun Medical Instrument Park, has established a platform for gene recombination and monoclonal antibody development, UPT up-lighting reagents, and magnetic particle chemiluminescence reagents.

Sinovation specializes in medical robot technology and intelligent medical product innovation. It has already developed innovative products including various types of medical robots, medical navigation, medical software, medical lasers and other international and domestic technologies.

A staff member of Sinovation introduces its high-tech surgical robot. [Photo by Li Tianyang/ chinadaily.com.cn]

These representative enterprises reflect Zhongguancun Medical Instrument Park's status as a front runner development site in the capital's smart medical industry. It is dominated by the high-end medical equipment industry, and integrates research and development, incubation, production and service.

Daxing Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry Base, as its supporter, has a total planned area of 13.5 sq km, complete infrastructure and industrial development. It is the exclusive development space for the bio-pharmaceutical industry in Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone.

At present, there are more than 2,000 enterprises in the park, such as the world's top 500 companies Fresenius kabi, Tong Ren Tang and many other famous enterprises.

A batch of high-tech companies have formed the "1+4+2" industrial pattern with the core sector of research and development, biopharmaceuticals, modern Chinese medicine, innovative medicines and medical devices. It has developed into an important support region for the development of the high-end biomedical health industry in China.

At the same time, its scientific and technological innovation, exchange and cooperation capabilities have been significantly enhanced. A number of national drug testing and drug research institutions have been established in the park, such as the National Food and Drug Testing Institute, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, the National Veterinary Microbiology Center, and the China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center.

It has also established cooperative relations with multinational enterprises and institutions in countries such as the United States and France to improve its regional internationalization and brand influence.