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News on Healthcare in China

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CANbridge underperforms after its recent IPO
Jan 14, 2022 (WiC 569)

The definition of a rare disease varies from country to country. In the US it is defined as a condition that affects fewer than 200,000 Americans, while in the European Union the threshold is set at an incidence of five in 10,000. The latest ...

Making a spectacle

Mingyue Optical Lens IPO surges 150%
Jan 7, 2022 (WiC 568)

Danyang in Jiangsu province is China’s leading producer of reading glasses. Yet until December last year none of the main eyewear companies in the county-level city – which is said to make 40% of the world’s lenses – had sold shares to ...

Dialysis machine maker SWS to go public
Nov 26, 2021 (WiC 565)

Over 600,000 Chinese citizens receive blood dialysis – a number that is is expected to rise substantially in the coming decades as the population ages. Almost all dialysis machines in China are foreign made. The only domestic firm to hold ...

Ocular IPO blinks

Investors buy into debut AI healthtech listing
Nov 19, 2021 (WiC 564)

China has a shortage of doctors and, as a natural consequence, a lack of medical specialists too. This means patients are often misdiagnosed or undiagnosed – at rates of more than 60% for some medical conditions and illnesses. One ...

Pills and platforms

Online healthcare sector to get new scrutiny
Nov 12, 2021 (WiC 563)

In April this year the owner of China’s largest gay dating app Blued was given the licences needed to open an ‘internet hospital’. “This essentially closes a glaring gap in the field of men’s health in China, itself a sector that is ...

Why rare disease drugs are hard to get in China
Oct 29, 2021 (WiC 561)

Watching 30 year-old Xu Wei in the lab that he built himself, it’s hard to believe he isn’t a trained scientist. In a white coat and sterile gloves, he uses an electronic pipette to measure out a chemical compound he will soon inject into his ...

Founder Sun Piaoyang comes home to struggling Hengrui
Sep 3, 2021 (WiC 554)

Starbucks might not be in the lofty position it is today were it not for the return of Howard Schultz as CEO in 2008 after an eight-year hiatus. “By 2007 Starbucks had begun to fail itself. Obsessed with growth, we took our eye off operations ...

Pandemic politics

Why Shanghai’s Covid expert is under attack
Aug 20, 2021 (WiC 552)

Chinese epidemiologist Zhang Wenhong divides public opinion. To some he is a straight-talking expert who eschews politics and tells it like it is – often with a dash of earthy humour (see WiC495 for an earlier profile). For others he is a ...

Moving the needle

Who is going to benefit from China’s approval of the BioNTech jab?
Jul 23, 2021 (WiC 550)

Pfizer, whose Covid-19 vaccines are protecting over half of the fully inoculated population in the US, has been trumpeting the need for a third booster dose. Meanwhile, Germany, Canada and the UK are all recommending a mixed regimen: if you ...

Capital injection

Cosmetics filler maker inks deal with Koreans ahead of Hong Kong IPO
Jul 9, 2021 (WiC 548)

Clostridium botulinum was first identified in 1895 after a botulism outbreak. Found in soil and the sediments of streams, lakes and coastal waters, the bacterium attacks the nerves, causing difficulty with breathing, muscle paralysis and even ...

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