Li Xiang, 45 years old this year, relied on his family connections to "buy" a large state-owned pharmaceutical factory in Tianjin and became his own boss.
Chen Xia is not the only smart person in the world, nor is he the only one who sees the huge profits from medicines. Others have seen it too.
Moreover, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry was almost a "seller's market." You didn't have to promote the drugs you produced; pharmaceutical companies or large hospitals would just come and buy them.
Haven’t you seen that there are dozens of trucks waiting in line in front of the Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Factory every day?
Others say that they want to reduce inventory in their warehouses, but Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceuticals has always had zero inventory. There is nothing we can do about it. The goods are taken away as soon as they come off the production line, and they are paid in cash on the spot, with no delays.
This phenomenon reflects that as the national economy develops, people have more money, pay more attention to their health, and have higher requirements for medicines.
It is no longer enough to just use some Chinese medicine such as Banlangen and Houttuynia cordata to deal with the problem. What they want is the efficacy.
As a result, various pharmaceutical companies have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.
Of course, these pharmaceutical companies do not have any "original research drugs". They either make some traditional Chinese medicine compound medicines to fool people, or, like the Indians later, they make generic drugs and do not pay patent fees.
Due to the backwardness of production lines and laboratories, they cannot imitate those high-end drugs even if they get the "original" ones.
So their target is some mid- and low-end drugs, such as... Omeprazole...
Omeprazole was the first medicine Chen Xia took out since his rebirth, and it was also with this medicine that he made his first fortune.
Even now, the patent is in the hands of Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceuticals (actually it should be Xiatian Company), and they have an exclusive monopoly in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.
So the monthly sales are amazing.
Who in China doesn't know this? If you have stomachache or stomach discomfort, take a "666 Weitai" or "Omeprazole Capsule".
The annual profit generated by just one medicine is calculated in billions.
If you make money, there will definitely be people who are jealous. Chen Xia is not the only one who can "copy" your products, others can do it too.
In the 1990s, generic Omeprazole drugs were released all over the country, which made the Pumpkin Vine Company very helpless.
These days, there is no patent protection law!
There is no protection for intellectual property rights!
There is no way to fight against counterfeiting without local cooperation. How can you do that?
You, Chen Xia, are the "King of Yuezhou." If you want to dominate, you should dominate within Zhijiang Province. Can you dominate the Northeast? Can you dominate Guangzhou? Can you dominate the capital?
Do you dare to go? You'll be beaten to death. Local protectionism is not just talk. This phenomenon will be difficult to eliminate even by 2020, let alone in 1991.
Therefore, the Pumpkin Vine Company has no way to deal with the "counterfeit and inferior drugs" everywhere and can only watch helplessly.
Fortunately, Chen Xia had foresight and launched so many advertisements, which firmly established a belief among the people of the country:
“Any medicine produced by Pumpkin Vine must be of high quality.”
In addition, in order to make money, those counterfeit manufacturers cut corners and the raw materials they extract are not pure enough, resulting in a therapeutic effect that is far inferior to that of pumpkin vine products.
This prevents sales from falling too much.
This incident also reminded Chen Xia that he must fully deploy "Longfeng Pharmacy" in the mainland as soon as possible and must take control of the sales channels in his own hands.
He has his own pharmacy, which sells medicines produced by his own company, and the product quality is absolutely authentic and reliable.
At a time when there is a huge shortage of counterfeit drugs across the country and patients are unable to guard against them, Longfeng Pharmacy, which only sells "genuine drugs", will definitely be sought after by consumers.
This will greatly enhance the brand of "Longfeng Pharmacy". This is an intangible asset and a golden signboard that cannot be bought with any amount of money.
Even if you make less money now, when people's sexual awareness improves in the future, that will be the time to make huge profits. Chen Xia knows the future trends and is planning for the future.
The factory that produces the largest number of counterfeit pumpkin vine medicines and operates on the largest scale is the Mingzhong Bio-Pharmaceutical Factory in Tianjin.
Li Jun's father, Li Jianming, has already started a conflict with Four Seasons Group.
You have ruined my young son, so I will cut off your supply of money, imitate all your medicines, occupy your market with low prices, follow your path, and leave you with no way out.
Within Zhijiang Province, we can’t do anything to your Four Seasons Group, but outside of Zhijiang Province, in the field of health care, the Li family has half the upper hand.
This is just like in fantasy novels, if you hit the smaller one, you will provoke the bigger one, which is very annoying. They have no martial ethics at all.
While Chen Xia was still basking in the sun on Nanfeng Island in the Indian Ocean, Li Xiang was already planning his plan to cut off Chen Xia's retreat.
Li Jianming and Qi Minghang, the dean of Peking University Third Hospital, are old friends. Li Jianming's eldest son, Li Xiang, went to work in the hospital after graduating from university and has a master-disciple relationship with Qi Minghang.
This relationship is unknown to outsiders.
The relationship between the Li and Qi families is very close, and to put it bluntly, they are a community of interests.
Qi Minghang knew clearly that Li Jun had suffered a defeat in Yuezhou;
The grudge between the Li and Chen families is well understood by an old fox like Qi Minghang.
This time he brought a group to visit Four Seasons Hospital for an inspection. It was like a weasel paying a New Year's visit to a chicken. He had no good intentions and was personally involved.
But outsiders don't know. Even Kang Chengde, the old president of Union Hospital, doesn't know the relationship between the "Li and Qi families".
Kang Chengde was originally the director of Huashan Hospital in Shanghai. He was transferred to Peking Union Medical College as the director after being promoted to academician.
In terms of circle, he is not from the "Beijing circle of the health system".
Until now, Vice President Kang still thinks that these are just old friends and colleagues who come to Four Seasons Hospital for a simple visit and tour, just like in other hospitals.
So there was no extra defense.
He personally led a delegation from the capital's medical community to visit key departments one by one.
One of the key departments they visited was the Burns Department.
The burn department is a severely affected area for infection, and a large number of patients could not be rescued because they could not overcome the infection.
During treatment, patients with extensive burns must lie in a "sterile ward" and must not have contact with the outside world to prevent infection.
In the 1980s and 1990s, due to the shortage of medical care, medicine, sterile wards and antibiotics, the mortality rate was very high.
The infection rate of burn patients in Four Seasons Hospital is only 20%, compared with the 60% infection rate in other hospitals, the difference is visible to the naked eye.
This also made Four Seasons Hospital become the burn center of the Yangtze River Delta in just a few months. Even big cities like Shanghai and Jinling, with patients with large-area burns, were transferred to Yuezhou if conditions allowed.
What makes the burn department so amazing is the use of a large number of advanced antibacterial drugs, which is also the focus of everyone's investigation.
This is also where Qi Minghang wants to take action.
Kang Chengde never dreamed that a friendly reception would unexpectedly lead to a wolf entering the house.
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