I think I understand a little why the United States needs so many Chinese to study abroad to develop new drugs, and why there are so many drug patent attorneys in the United States. Its medical insurance system drives the entire industry chain, from universities, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, to Banking, law, economic strategy, and it all stems from one principle - drugs are commodities!
In many countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom mentioned in the film, drugs and medical aid cannot be commercialized, they are not commodities at all. Food is a commodity, but medicine is not.
So ironically, a large number of European pharmaceutical companies have built their pharmaceutical factories in China, because those drugs cannot be bought and sold locally in Europe, but they can be bought in China.
China is in some places surprisingly consistent with the world's leading capitalist countries - medicines are also commodities in China!
That's why we have so many pharmacy students to train, so many biomedical engineering students to train, and most of them go to the United States to learn advanced drug transformation technology, in order to continuously develop and manufacture new drugs as much as possible and as quickly as possible, so as to Form commercial competition in the pharmaceutical market. No matter from which point of view, China is a "gold mine", with cheap labor, cheap raw materials, and legal loopholes. Yes - here, the drug is a commodity.
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