Several pharmaceutical companies are actively growing pipelines of their own in China, although at present the cumulative R&D expenditure of all Chinese pharma businesses amount to less than the spent of a single multinational corporation (MNC) in the West. Almost all the businesses to date started off as generics producers who used existing cash flows and pharma positioning to move into the local innovative sector. Furthermore, whilst previously 90% of all pharma were state-owned, today roughly 6 out of 10 are already private.
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