Online can sell things now is more and more, the pharmaceutical online retail market also began to untie recently, the State administration of Food and Drug Administration last month, 25th official reply, agreed to 1th stores to become the Internet third-party platform drugs online retail pilot enterprises.
Documents show that the State administration of Food and Drug Administration agreed with the Shanghai Food and Medicine Regulatory Bureau "to Niu E-commerce (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (Note: No. 1th) for the pilot units, the Internet Third-party platform for drug online retail work related to the pilot." This is also the first qualification for the integrated electric Business enterprise.
It is reported that at present, No. 1th Store has contracted good pharmacists, Deshendon, Huada Pharmacy, one medicine net, Kang's Home large pharmacy, jiading large pharmacy and more than 10 drug retail chain Brand Enterprises, will be in the original related category of shop, expanded to OTC over-the-counter Western medicine sales.
In addition, China and Hong News recently released data show: 2013, the Chinese online pharmacy sales of about 4.2 billion yuan, compared to 2012 twice times; and it is expected that in 2014, the size of China's pharmaceutical dealers will reach 6.8 billion yuan.
In the light of this rapid growth in market size and the promotion of private demand, according to China Securities Network news, the State Food and Drug Administration is embarking on a study to develop the first batch of online sales of drugs catalog. Online sales of prescription drug advice have also been completed, are under discussion.
This policy is expected to promote the pharmaceutical market in the future rapid development.