The prospect of pharmaceutical electric business, the industry to enter a rapid development period

From Alibaba to invest heavily into the pharmaceutical electricity business, to Wuhan to put 200 million yuan to support the development of pharmaceutical dealers, as well as the recent chain of pharmacies Allied Chongqing Drug Exchange to enter the pharmaceutical electrical business. With the various forces repeatedly overweight, will be expected to reshape the pharmaceutical electric industry pattern. People in the industry said that with logistics and distribution advantages of enterprises and have online sales qualifications of the major health products will be the first to benefit.

Prospect of pharmaceutical electric business

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2014, a news stirred up a pool of the pharmaceutical and electrical business. Citic Group Citic 21st Century Co., Ltd. announced that Alibaba joined hands with the Yunfeng fund for CITIC 21st century to carry out a total of 170 million U.S. dollars strategic investment.

Alibaba is the reason to invest heavily in 21st century, in order to get 21st century's Hebei Eye Medicine Technology Co., Ltd. 95095 medical platform online drug trading license. This is the first domestic third-party online drug trading qualification certificate. With the online trading platform qualification a card third party trading platform, can carry out business to business (business-to-business) cooperation, can also carry out business to customers (consumer) sales.

Subsequently, Kyushu Tong will join hands with Tencent to develop online medicine retail rumors, although the company has denied. But in the announcement in the future does not exclude with any Internet customer resources and in line with their strategic development direction of the company to cooperate. For the future development of online retail business leave suspense.

Compared to the offline retail pharmacies, there is a higher threshold for pharmaceutical dealers. According to the State administration of drug regulation, the sale of drugs on the internet must have "Internet Drug trading Service Certificate" and "Internet Drug Information Service certificate." The difference between the two certificates is that the former can sell drugs, and the latter companies can only provide drug information can not be sold online. such as the current cat, Beijing-east and other sites, just for offline businesses to provide information display platform. And Alibaba through the 21st century, became the 95095 Medicine website Indirect control, can for the cat's Day Medical museum to sell drugs to get through the road.

And for the internet, the big guy has been involved in the pharmaceutical electrical business, the most critical factor is that the industry has entered the rapid development period. According to the data released by the China Electronic Commerce Research Center, the entire pharmaceutical E-commerce market in 2010 is about 200 million yuan, and only three years, to 2013 online medicine market size reached 4 billion yuan.