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The Evolution of Modern Biotech in the Country Is Continuing at a Rapid Pace
Eliza Yibing Zhou

 

Eighteen years have passed since the first modern biotech firm, Shenzhen Kexing Biotech, was inaugurated in China. As China’s biotech pioneer, Kexing brought the first Chinese-developed protein therapeutic (recombinant human interferon a1b) to the market in the early 1990s. Nearly 200 modern biotech drug firms have followed, and they have launched 35 biotech drugs to the domestic market in recent years.

 

According to a newly released study “Top 60 Chinese-Owned Biopharmaceutical Companies” published by BioPlan Associates, with the further expansion of the Chinese biotech sector, a growing number of innovation-focused biopharmaceutical companies are emerging.