Dinner Meeting with EU Delegation Minister Counsellor for Health and Food Safety on Pharmaceutical Industry Developments in China

2019-02-20 | Beijing, Shanghai

On 20th February, Chairs of the Pharmaceutical working group of the European Chamber had a dinner meeting with Ms Gudrun Gallhoff, Minister Counsellor for Health and Food Safety at the EU Delegation to China. The Working Group's National Chair Ms Li Ye and Vice Chair Ms Daphne Richet-Cooper shared with Ms Gallhoff the industry's main concerns and challenges of doing business in China. These include but not limited to the volume-based procurement policy, drug reimbursement list updating, rare disease, and China's future role in ICH. Ms Gallhoff updated the working group representatives the latest development of EU-China Business Summit, the upcoming dialogues between China and EU on various topics and her observation of developmental trend of China's pharmaceutical industry.