Prospects for China's Pharmaceutical Industry Development During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period.

The pharmaceutical industry is a strategic sector bearing on national economy,development,and security.It represents one of the fields featuring highly active scientific innovation,fierce international competition,and high policy attention.Amidst profound adjustments in the global pharmaceutical landscape and the deep advancement of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation,the 15th Five-Year Plan period marks a critical stage for China's pharmaceutical industry to achieve high-quality development.This article systematically analyzes the characteristics and strategic positioning of the pharmaceutical industry,reviews the development landscape and trends of the global pharmaceutical industry,and objectively summarizes China's current status of this industry in terms of industrial scale,innovation capability,industrial clustering,and internationalization.The study suggests that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period,China's pharmaceutical industry faces five major new situations-new strategic positioning,new market demands,emerging technologies,fresh growth drivers,and a reshaped industrial landscape,with opportunities outweighing challenges.To achieve high-quality development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period,the industry should adhere to five principles:prioritizing scale-driven expansion to enlarge industrial footprint,boosting technological foundation to anchor innovation-led development,advancing business model innovation to foster new application scenarios,adhering to people-centered development to ramp up high-quality product supply,and optimizing the industrial ecosystem to refine supporting guarantee systems.