Chapter 74 (1/2)
For a moment, the atmosphere among the three was dull.
Zhang Heng ignored Fang Hao's ideas. He took the lead in walking ahead. As soon as he left the airport, he saw two black cars not far away. Beside the car was a tall, thin man with golden glasses and a gray suit.
”Are you three people of Star Technology?” See Zhang Heng three people come, tall thin man asks quickly.
”I'm Li Yiru in touch with you. This is my boss, Mr. Zhang Heng and Mr. Zhang.” Li Yiru walked between the two people, according to the rules of the business community, skillfully introduced.
”Hello, Mr. Zhang. I'm really surprised. I didn't expect the boss of Star Technology to be so young. According to our Chinese saying, it's really a young hero.” The tall and thin man showed the color of exclamation and clapped Zhang Heng a horse soundlessly. ”I am Zhu Fugui, and my ancestors are also Chinese, Huaxia Changxi.”
”Where, I have heard of the famous entrepreneur Zhu Fugui for a long time.” Zhang Heng shook hands with each other and said, ”I still have a lot to learn. As a business elite, Mr. Zhu, you must point out my younger generation when you are free.”
”Where and where, it's right to point out to each other.”
They exchanged greetings for a while, then Zhu Fugui opened the door and invited Zhang Heng to get on the car, while Li Yiru and Fang Hao got on another car.
Zhu Fugui is the legal person and general manager of KangBo pharmaceutical company. When he was young, he immigrated to Singapore. After half his life's hard work, he finally established KangBo pharmaceutical company, a small enterprise. Originally, he thought that he could get along well, but he was too ambitious and touched the minefield of small companies - drug research and development.
With the development of modern medical technology, the development cost and technical requirements of new drugs are also higher and higher, and the research and development of drugs is becoming more and more difficult. It is not a small company with tens of millions of dollars like KangBo pharmaceutical company that is qualified to play.
The emergence of a new drug requires not only a lot of money, but also corresponding talents and luck. Pfizer group invests billions of dollars in research and development of new drugs every year, even though it is still a loss of money. From this, we can see the difficulties in medical research and development in the world today.
Because of this, most of the world's pharmaceutical giants have the ability to develop new drugs. However, the pharmaceutical industry is indeed a profiteering industry. Although R & D is difficult, once a patent new drug with great value is developed, its profit will be huge.
For example, Glivec, a star anti-cancer drug, is a first-line drug developed by Novartis for the treatment of leukemia, with an effective rate of 95%. It has been used in the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. The market price of Gleevec in China is 23500 yuan a box. A box can be used for about a month, and the annual cost is more than 280000 yuan! In fact, the production cost of Gleevec is only a few dollars a box, which is only 50 yuan!
The 50 yuan drug sold at a high price of more than 20000 yuan in China. Except that half of the cost is the patent fee charged by Novartis, the remaining profits are all seized by hospitals and dealers.
Before arriving at the hospital, Huaxia imported drugs have to go through at least three layers of dealers' exploitation, with an average premium of 5% - 7% in each layer. Moreover, due to the existence of the system of ”relying on medicine to support medicine”, Huaxia hospital also increased the price by 10% - 15% on the basis of the actual purchase price. These reasons overlapped each other and eventually led to the existence of high price drugs.
In the final analysis, the reason for all this is that Huaxia pharmaceutical enterprises dare not develop new drugs on their own, and prefer to spend a lot of patent fees to manufacture other people's drugs. Anyway, they are making money.
Therefore, after knowing that Zhu Fugui had taken the initiative to develop new drugs, Zhang Heng actually admired each other. No matter how capable he was, at least he dared to think and dare to do it.
Zhu Fugui seems to know that the man in front of him is definitely a gold master. He is very polite to Zhang Heng. He not only comes to the airport to meet the three people, but also book three standard rooms in a five-star hotel. Before visiting his company, he also gives Zhang Heng a reception banquet.
After dinner, Zhang Heng directly asked Zhu Fugui to take him to visit KangBo pharmaceutical company's laboratory, which is located in qiaobio pharmaceutical Park of Weiyi science and technology city. In addition, KangBo pharmaceutical company also has a pharmaceutical workshop, but the pharmaceutical workshop is far away, located on Jurong Island on the southwest coast of Singapore.
Jurong Island is an artificial island connected by reclamation in Singapore. It is about 10 kilometers away from the urban area, with a total area of 32 square kilometers. It is the gathering place of Singapore factories and a large number of chemical project factories.
After visiting the laboratory, Zhu Heng decided to take a tour of the laboratory.
The combination of Singapore, a country and a city, gives people a unique impression of being clean and tidy. Whether it is a forest of skyscrapers or a wide green road, it gives people a lively rhythm. Moreover, Singapore is also known as one of the best policing cities in the world, and the police are very efficient.