At this year's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wu Mingjiang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former vice president of the Chinese Medical Association, submitted a proposal to comprehensively promote the improvement, innovation, and development of medical devices in China. This proposal proposes several suggestions around basic research on medical devices, construction of standard systems, effective integration of production and demand, and encouragement of the development of domestically produced medical devices.

Wu Mingjiang said that by the end of 2015, there were over 14000 medical device manufacturing enterprises in China, of which nearly 90% had a production scale of less than 20 million yuan, only over 300 had a production scale of over 100 million yuan, and more than 2600 were able to produce high-end products.

The relevant government departments will strengthen top-level design, build a platform for communication between production and demand, promote interaction and exchange among industry, academia, research, and medicine, and tackle scientific and technological challenges, so as to