Abstract
Recently medicine logistics has made apparent progress in China. Yet admittedly there still exist some major problems such as out-dated infrastructures and weak enterprise competitiveness. At present, the development of medicine logistics still has not adapted to the new requirements of the medical system reform and the market evolution. Thus, acceleration of medicine logistics development is of great significance to regulating the order of medicine production and circulation, achieving the scientific development of the medicine production and circulation industry, and ensuring the safety, reasonableness and convenience of medicines for the general populace.
This chapter comprises three parts. The first part introduces the characteristics, the operations subjects, the operations procedures, the operations network and the service modes of China’s medicine logistics. The second part explains the current development status of China’s medicine logistics, and the third part analyzes the problems and strategies of medicine logistics development in China.
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Li, L. (2014). Development of Medicine Logistics in China. In: Liu, Bl., Lee, Sj., Wang, L., Li, X., Xiao, Jh. (eds) Contemporary Logistics in China. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34525-8_10
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