Share of global biopharmaceutical licensing deals
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20%
China · 2025
Share of global biopharmaceutical licensing deals in China stood at 20% in 2025 (State Council).
- Publisher
- State Council
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- China to expand health insurance coverage for innovative drugs
- Retrieved
- 17 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
By 2025, China accounted for about 30 percent of the global biopharma pipeline, up from just 2 percent a decade earlier, and about one-fifth of global licensing deals, according to McKinsey research.
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- State Council of China. (2025). China to expand health insurance coverage for innovative drugs. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202609/04/content_WS6a9a7481c6d00ca5f9a0d02f.html. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_GXTAFX17EAE3M3M2YPSRA2GZVV
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- State Council of China. "China to expand health insurance coverage for innovative drugs." 2025, https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202609/04/content_WS6a9a7481c6d00ca5f9a0d02f.html. Accessed 17 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_GXTAFX17EAE3M3M2YPSRA2GZVV.
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- State Council of China. "China to expand health insurance coverage for innovative drugs." 2025. https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202609/04/content_WS6a9a7481c6d00ca5f9a0d02f.html. Accessed September 17, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_GXTAFX17EAE3M3M2YPSRA2GZVV.
- BibTeX
- @misc{statecouncil2025sharea2gzvv, author = {{State Council of China}}, title = {China to expand health insurance coverage for innovative drugs}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_GXTAFX17EAE3M3M2YPSRA2GZVV}, note = {Original source: https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202609/04/content\_WS6a9a7481c6d00ca5f9a0d02f.html. Accessed September 17, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- State Council of China · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- China to expand health insurance coverage for innovative drugs
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- China to expand health insurance coverage for innovative drugs
- Retrieved
- 17 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_GXTAFX17EAE3M3M2YPSRA2GZVV