CHINA MED 2012 Opens with Diversified High-quality Exhibits and More International Brands

Beijing, March 23, 2012 -- The 24th International Medical Instruments and Equipment Exhibition (CHINA MED 2012), organized by Health Department of General Logistics Department, Chinese People's Liberation Army, China World Trade Center Co., Ltd., Huitong Xingye International Exhibition (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and Messe Düsseldorf (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., opens today at China National Convention Center to bring together domestic and overseas medical equipment manufacturers, medical institutions, scholars and experts to this year's first grand international event of China's medical device industry.

Despite the global economy remains sluggish, China's medical device industry is maintaining a rapid growth. Plus the concerted efforts by the organizers, CHINA MED 2012 has proudly attracted more than 500 exhibitors from over 20 countries and regions to span over 30,000 square meters of exhibition space. Expectedly, the 3-day exhibition will have some 30,000 visitors, including representatives from some 200 well-known medical institutions across the world, in-Beijing medical professionals, potential users, medical school students and staff with health check-up centers and community hospitals.

Displaying the world's latest products, Exploring what's hot in the industry

"International, professional, high-quality and high-tech" are the key words you can find about CHINA MED 2012 that continues to serve as a high-profile business information platform for the medical device industry. GE, Philips, Siemens, Toshiba, Varian, Elekta, Carestream, Wandong, Biochem, Roche, Maquet, Ion Beam, Shinva, Johnson & Johnson, Mindray, Lepu, Wego, Yuyue and Aeonmed all present a wide range of innovative products and solutions to maintain their leading positions in the industry.
 
IntelliSpace Portal introduced by Philips is a multimodality workspace that uses advanced networking capabilities to provide solutions for advanced image review and analysis. Driven by the concept of "Imaging 2.0 – Sharing your vision and Advancing the science", this innovative 'medical networking' platform helps advance Philips' long years of clinical applications of CT.

Trilogy™ launched by Varian is the world's first image-guided radiation therapy system optimized for both conventional and stereotactic approaches to treating cancer with high-degree of intensity, flexibility and reliability.

Axesse™ from Elekta, a linear accelerator treatment machine for radiotherapy, is well integrated with Monaco® treatment planning system and MOSAIQ® patient information management system to deliver fast, efficient and accurate treatment

Companies from Germany, Japan, USA, Italy, Switzerland and China Taiwan continue to be present in pavilions. Together with the North American, European and Asian brand zones, they make CHINA MED 2012 a larger and more international trade show.

According to the product ranage, CHINA MED 2012 is basically divided into 8 blocks, namely Domestic Equipment, International Equipment, Medical Consumables, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation Devices, Overseas Brands, Laboratory and Press. They are designed to hit "what's hot" in the medical industry and enable visitors to have a fast overview of the results of perfect combination of forefront theories and technological advances with ease.
 
Academic conferences to lead medical advances, China's Market to remain sustainably attractive

Academic conferences during CHINA MED have always been another important attraction to the visitors. This year 9 conferences are to be held to explore the issues of orthopedics, ultrasound, radiotherapy, radiographic imaging, nuclear medicine, critical care medicine, laboratory, medical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation. In addition, China Medical Association and it branches, and Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering will host several seminars. Noteworthy is the fact that the Organizers of CHINA MED will, for the first time, join hands with the Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army to hold an academic conference, and have the received papers and in-depth feature stories published in the journal. Furthermore, the technical seminars and product releases presented by a number of exhibitors will certainly attract part of expected 5,000 audience. Naturally, CHINA MED has become an arena where representatives from international companies and medical scholars meet to explore the state-of-the-art technology and up-to-date medical developments.

In its "Forecast of China's Medical Device Market in 2012", China Business Research Network (cbresearch.com) says the world's increasing medical device market takes up 42% of the total for healthcare. In the next years, the global market of medical devices will foresee an increase of between 4 and 6 percent. For the first time in history, China manafactured more than RMB 100 billion worth of medical devices in 2010, being a top producer of many devices. The cost superiority, improving industry chain status through R & D, increasing expenditure on healthcare, fast-growing number of deep-pocketed consumers, enhancing sense of good health, plus the on-going healthcare reform all help to push up China's medical device industry at a compound annual rate of 20 to 30 percent.

CHINA MED has always kept pace with the world's latest developments on medical devices since its debut in 1989 by striving hard for a top-grade platform for both the product display and academic exchanges. The successes over the past 23 years have backed up its strong status as the first UFI-approved international medical instruments and equipment exhibition in China.

For more information, please visit: www.chinamed.net.cn.