Life health industry cluster

Development ideas and goals

The Guangzhou Development District focuses on the key driving factors and goals of industrial development, and promotes advances in biotechnology drug, chemical drug and crude drug manufacturing, modern Chinese medicines and ethnic medicines, biomedical engineering, bio-manufacturing, biological services and high-end health service industries, attempting to create a life health industrial cluster worth 100 billion yuan.

Development priorities

Priorities in this area are biotechnology drug, chemical drug and crude drug manufacturing, modern Chinese medicines and ethnic medicines, biomedicines, medical equipment, bio-manufacturing, and life health services. Also emphasized are introducing high-end medical service resources and encouraging the development of health care, leisure, and health management services, as well as introducing high-end health service institutions and promoting personalized diagnosis and treatment services. These priorities should promote a new type of service for the aged.

In the biomedical industry, the Guangzhou Development District introduced GE, BeiGene, The Scripps Research Institute and other industry leaders, and cooperated with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory which cultivated eight Nobel Prize winners to build a research institute and a scientific and technological achievements transformation center and to form a complete industrial ecological chain covering production, learning, research and usage.