Market Procurement Analysis of County Level Medical Community in China from January to August 2025
Promoting the construction of county-level medical communities is an important measure to deepen medical reform. As a key innovative model in the medical and health service system, county-level medical communities are gradually becoming an important means to improve the level of primary medical services and promote the balanced development of urban and rural medical resources.
This report aims to conduct an in-depth analysis of the overall market procurement scale, centralized procurement proportion, procurement types, localization rate, and other aspects of domestic county-level medical communities from January to August 2025.
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Overall situation
According to the data from the county-level medical community market monitoring dashboard, with the support of policies and supporting funds related to the construction of county-level medical communities, the procurement scale of domestic county-level medical communities from January to August 2025 has shown a rapid growth momentum, with a year-on-year increase of 175%. The procurement scale in just 8 months has already exceeded that of the entire year of 2024.
Breaking down the market change trends from January to August 2025, the procurement demand of county-level medical communities has shown a significant year-on-year growth, and presented a “blowout” situation in January and May.
In addition, with its excellent bargaining power, centralized procurement has gradually shifted more and more county-level medical communities from independent procurement to centralized procurement of medical equipment led by provincial and municipal health commissions.According to the data from the county-level medical community market monitoring dashboard, since 2024, the proportion of the centralized procurement scale of county-level medical communities in the county-level medical community procurement market has been rising steadily. In the second quarter of 2025, the proportion of the centralized procurement scale exceeded 66%.
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Types of Purchases
According to the data from the county-level medical community market monitoring dashboard, whether it is independent procurement or centralized procurement by county-level medical communities, medical imaging equipment remains the preferred procurement category for most primary medical institutions, and the concentration of procurement categories is gradually increasing.
In addition, compared to conventional procurement by county-level medical consortia, the categories of centralized procurement by county-level medical consortia are more concentrated, with the proportion of centralized procurement sales of medical imaging equipment approaching 90% by 2025.
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Localization rate in popular segmented fields
Among the largest medical imaging equipment categories in terms of procurement scale, products such as CT, MR, DR, DSA, and ultrasound imaging diagnostic equipment are the most popular subcategories within this category.
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Summary
On August 29, the State Council Executive Meeting reviewed and approved the “Implementation Plan for the Medical and Health Foundation-Strengthening Project”The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to place the strengthening of the functions of primary medical and health services in a more prominent position, further optimize the service content, strengthen the capacity building for chronic disease prevention and treatment, rehabilitation and nursing, improve the level of diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently-occurring diseases at the primary level, facilitate the masses to seek medical treatment nearby, and better meet the people’s needs for multi-level, diversified and high-quality health services.
It can be seen from the policies continuously issued in recent years and the active performance of the procurement market that the state’s support for the construction of county-level medical communities continues to increase, and the gap in relevant medical devices still needs to be urgently filled. It is foreseeable that in the subsequent years, county-level medical alliances will continue to release procurement demands, and the market scale of several key construction sectors of county-level medical alliances, such as chronic disease prevention and treatment, rehabilitation nursing, and mutual recognition of regional inspection results, is expected to further grow.
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Source：Joinchain Medical Devices
Translated & edited：Bradyknown
