The medical equipment export market maintained a rapid growth trend. The increase in 2006-2008 was relatively large, reaching around 30%. Affected by the financial crisis in 2009, the increase in export value decreased by only 4.28%, and the export amount was 377.109 million US dollars. In 2010, the export market recovered and the export value reached 47,516,400 US dollars, an increase of 26% year-on-year.
In addition, the proportion of medical equipment exports in the medical device industry in 2010 was 32.33%, which surpassed that of medical dressings and occupied the first place.
Table 4 China's Medical Device Exports 2006-2010
years
Export amount
Year-on-year growth
2010
475163.4
26.00
2009
377109.9
4.28
2008
361637.76
31.64
2007
274722.18
29.90
2006
211487.2
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