Invest early for a piece of the action in China
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Valued at $1,000 million in 1995 and growing at an estimated average of 30%, China's medical device market is the largest in Asia. However, most US firms doing business in China report that "the competition is stiff, that the multi-layered bureaucracy can be frustrating and expensive to deal with, and that profits are small", says US industry association HIMA in its newly-published 1996 Emerging Market Report.