China's medical exports fell 26.1% year-on-year in the first half of 2023, dragged down by weaker demand amid a sluggish global economic recovery and a high base for comparison.
Medicines and equipment hit by weak demand amid slow global recovery
Boxes of COVID-19 vaccines are seen at a packaging workshop inside the Beijing Institute of Biological Products of Sinopharm's China National Biotec Group in Beijing, February 26, 2021. © Reuters
China's medical exports fell 26.1% year-on-year in the first half of 2023, dragged down by weaker demand amid a sluggish global economic recovery and a high base for comparison.