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A health seminar hosted by the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (BDA) took place in Beijing's Yizhuang Biomedical Park on May 14, 2014.
Gaoi Fu, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, foreign experts from the Clinton Foundation, leaders from the BDA and more than 150 bio-pharmaceutical enterprises attended the seminar.
Yizhuang, known as Beijing’s "pharma valley", has attracted more than 500 advanced enterprises to settle there, covering biological medicine, Chinese medicine, diagnostic reagents, outsourcing services and medicine circulation sales. The biopharmaceutical industry, as one of its four pillar industries, has won strong support from the government. The industry’s output value accounts for more than 40 percent of the city’s total biomedical output.
The Clinton Foundation is a non-profit foundation established by former President of the United States Bill Clinton with the stated mission of "strengthening the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence." The foundation, which enjoys high popularity in the world, is always focusing on AIDS treatment in developing countries and helping threatened patients in African countries with a low price.
The foundation had in-depth discussions with drug manufacturing enterprises in BDA on technological innovation, market development and technical cooperation, which will help those enterprises march towards the international market.
BDA plans to carry out ten similar activities for international exchange this year, in order to promote technological innovation of its enterprises and develop Beijing into a foreign exchange center, as well as a science and technology innovation center.
