Although the news of the plague in the New World affected the itinerary and determination of some immigrants, Li Ji and others also visited the research laboratories of the Institute of Infectious Diseases (the Institute of Infectious Diseases, the Institute of Viral Diseases, the Institute of Parasitic Diseases, the Center for Chronic Diseases, the Institute of Nutrition and Food, the Institute of Environment, the Institute of Occupational Health, the Center for Radiating Safety, the Center for Water Improvement, and the Center for Women and Children are the most important departments of several units directly under the Center for Disease Control and Prevention) at the newly established Imperial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Shenjing.

Qian Jin looked at Wang Xinyu with an unhappy look and teased, "Lao Wang, although your biological and chemical weapons research institute is closed, those researchers and equipment can be said to be still working, why do you look like you are losing money and being constipated?" ”

Liu Xin next to him frowned when he saw Wang Xinyu, who was even more unhappy, and hurriedly said, "Biological and chemical weapons, like nuclear weapons, are things that can only be studied and cannot be used, and they are good things with unlimited potential in terms of conversion into civilian use. Equipment that cannot produce virus bombs and bacteriological bombs can still be used to cultivate live attenuated viruses and antibiotics, and vaccines and antibiotics are not top-secret munitions that only consume appropriations and cannot generate profits. Aren't your other military-to-civilian enterprises and projects working well? ”

Wang Xinyu sighed: "Although the profit of municipal fire-fighting equipment is higher than that of general commodities such as the textile industry, it is still incomparable with munitions." Medical devices are subject to our own medical bills and consumer goods bills, and we can't make huge profits, but isn't the price of drugs too low, can't we use drug profits to subsidize other branches of the pharmaceutical industry? ”

"The price of drugs is high, and it is easy to overcapacity! I don't want to see too many people wallowing in this purely consumer industry, where all employees are parasitic on the cash flow of the people's health spending, and should be guarded as closely as the security and defense spending sector. Manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, especially profiteering chemical companies, should be closely monitored like arsenals that manufacture nuclear bombs and biological weapons. The best control of the upstream, the sales link also reduces unnecessary expenses under our strong direct sales means, these cheap drugs are actually not cheap, and we have earned 200% profit between the raw materials and the end consumer. Isn't that enough? Looking at Wang Xinyu's unhappy appearance, Wu Qi also explained.

"No one can be sure of the price of drugs, but the price of all drugs must be slowly declining with the expansion of production capacity. We do not interfere too much at all in the export of medicines, and the prices are completely in line with the laws of the market. There are no administrative and capital barriers in this industry, although we have a monopoly on more than 90% of the talent. But technology can be said to not have much of a monopoly. Many basic medicines and proprietary Chinese medicines have disclosed their formulas and processes, and national health care and various medical benefits are also very strong. This is just one of the many national welfare, according to the experience of the old time and space, the global market for the pharmaceutical industry in the post-industrial era is full of trillions of dollars in annual sales, and the niche drug of vaccines also has a 1% market! Lao Wang seems to be jealous of Wu Qi's huge profits in the pharmaceutical industry, where is the dislike of the low profits of the military-to-civilian industry?

Although Wu Qi has become the ancestor of modern medicine and the largest oligarch in the medical industry by word of mouth, he is honest. He really didn't make any money, although Imperial Pharmaceutical was his son as a legal person, but the largest shareholder was not their Wu family, but the Imperial Medical Insurance Fund managed by the Imperial Ministry of Health and the Imperial National Health Care Fund under the Senate Public Health and Wellness Committee. The national medical expenses of the empire were mainly paid from these two funds, and as soon as the price of drugs was high, the profits would increase, and the dividends on the shares held by the fund would increase, but the fund expenses would also increase even more. In the end, it is the shareholders outside the fund who make money, how can there be a reason for the major shareholders to lose their own money to the minority shareholders? Only the fund with low drug prices can get the benefits! At the beginning, Wu Qi painstakingly sold his hard work, the original shares of Imperial Pharmaceutical, to these two funds at a parity price, but he won a reputation for eternity!

Where are we, the people, and the minority shareholders such as our partners, qualified to determine the price of medicines? The shareholders' meeting and the board of directors are the final say of these two funds, and it is in our fundamental interest to maintain the price stability of all drugs in the empire! ”

"Nonsense, the Imperial Ministry of Health and the Senate Public Health and Health Committee are not all Wu Qi's disciples and grandchildren, and he is not a major shareholder if he changes his vest? Isn't he here to be lazy and to prevent his children and grandchildren from coming around? This New World plague is tantamount to telling the world. There is an emerging pharmaceutical market of tens of millions of people in Chizhou, and the market is larger than the local market that has been saturated, the local consumption of drugs a year is only about 300 million, and the consumption of the new continent is expected to be 100 million, if it is not for the local per capita income far more than the new continent dozens of times, the proportion of the new continent's drug market in the world will be more exaggerated! ”

"Relying on drugs to make money more than the average profit of the society is simply moral degradation, the vaccine is definitely a small market, a shot of lifelong immunity vaccine is not like the annual consumption of antibiotics and Chinese patent medicine so a steady stream of sales and profits, from the quality and importance of Xing is the king of drugs, many families in poor areas are vaccinated to avoid the tragedy of family ruin, if you use those expensive antibiotics and chemical extracts to die I don't know how many people have to go into debt. We can only afford basic medical care, and medical insurance only covers trauma and acute infectious diseases, and does not cover minor problems such as minor colds and malnutrition. The increase in the proportion of medical expenses in the cost of living will inevitably crowd out the expenditures of other production-oriented consumption, and the markets of those industries will be greatly hit by this uncertainty and expected risks, and may fall by 10%. Liu Jiao, director of the Bureau of Statistics, looked at the infectious disease bacteria culture greenhouse in front of him, and the miscellaneous bacteria in many petri dishes occupied almost no space for the main bacterial group, and couldn't help but sigh.

"So the plague in the New World has become a good opportunity for you to reshuffle the cards of the medical system reform?" Zhao Shouzhong asked.

"Lao Zhao, who knows me, is also." Li Ji patted Zhao Shouzhong on the shoulder, "Let's keep an eye on it now, there are too many stakes in the medical industry, so we must compress the profit margins of the intermediate process from the source, otherwise the national economy will consume too much wealth in the medical industry, which will drag down the capital supply of other industries."

The most important thing about the vaccine, in addition to whether the effect lasts or not, is the price. Vaccines are autoimmune preparations made by artificially attenuating, inactivating or using genetically modified methods to prevent infectious diseases. The vaccine retains the characteristic of pathogenic bacteria that stimulates the immune system of the animal body. When the animal body comes into contact with this non-harmful pathogenic bacteria, the immune system will produce certain protective substances, such as immune hormones, living physiological substances, special antibodies, etc.; When animals are exposed to this pathogen again. The animal's immune system will then rely on its original memory to produce more protective substances to prevent the damage of pathogenic bacteria. The vast majority of existing varieties are nationally developed varieties that are compulsorily vaccinated with a single vaccination and successful lifelong immunization. There is absolutely nothing to say about the effect staying power, but the price is a lot more boring. ”

"The discovery of a vaccine is a milestone event in the history of human development. Because in a sense, the history of human reproduction is the history of mankind's constant struggle against disease and natural disasters. Prevention is the most important means of controlling infectious diseases, and vaccination is considered to be the most effective measure. And it turned out to be true. The smallpox virus, which has threatened mankind for hundreds of years, was completely eradicated after the emergence of the vaccinia vaccine, and the empire is about to usher in the first victory of mankind against the virus with a vaccine, which also makes us believe in the role of vaccines in controlling and eradicating infectious diseases. As long as we continue to popularize the vaccinia vaccine in the New World, smallpox will disappear completely, but unfortunately there are always a few short-sighted people under us who are greedy and overcome reason.

The day before yesterday, inspectors in the New World discovered the reselling of vaccines and the collusion inside and outside the hospital to make too high prices, hoarding goods, and making a fortune from natural disasters. We can't always achieve those simple goals quietly. ”

"There are always endless rats in the ground, which is also one of the elements of ecological balance, as long as they have enough natural enemies. The number will not be so excessive that it threatens others. The number of vaccines is not sufficient, and speculation is the essence of human beings! We ourselves did not approve the vaccine industrial base three years ago, because we did not expect the new continent to open so quickly, and if we had approved this factory, the supply of vaccines would not be so scarce. Naturally, there is no room for prices to rise.

The vaccine industry has the characteristics of high technology, high investment, high risk, high return and long cycle, which are easy to achieve a high degree of monopoly, so in this time and space, 100% of the production capacity is monopolized by Imperial Pharmaceutical. Therefore, every trace of capacity growth can only rely on the company's new production line or new branch to start running, we have not approved is the only reason for insufficient capacity, so it is logical to assume some responsibility.

Pure technological and capital monopolies naturally belong to natural monopolies. If we hadn't stuck with this budget, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th phases of the project would have started and ended smoothly, and the vaccine would not have been so scarce. In the future, in addition to the promotion of health care knowledge and the construction of the health care system, the vaccine industry should be placed in the third position in the big health industry, ranking in front of the pharmaceutical industry such as Chinese patent medicine, antibiotics and chemical drugs. ”

"Lao Li said very well, from a technical point of view, it is also the most money-saving method, we can all benefit, Wu Qi will not be troubled by those guys under his hand who ask for money to expand production capacity every day. After the later phases of the project are launched, it will not only alleviate the current shortage situation, but also prepare for the future baby cháo. The vaccine industry spends a penny, just like the health care system, you can save a dollar in medical expenses, and we can arrange a place to go with the money saved. ”

"Yes, this institute is one of Lao Wu's achievements, and the best place for infectious disease research is the best place for the study of infectious diseases, except for the secret laboratory in the mountainous area of Lanzhou that we have established, which is closely monitored by the Secrecy Bureau, and it can be called first-class here. But who are you going to send to take the helm of the vaccine project of the third phase of the project? Although this project is planned, because it started early, the talent pool is even more scarce, who are you going to let carry this burden? Zhao Shouzhong asked

"What do you think of the fourth child of the Wu family?"

"Wu Jue? Didn't he just graduate from college? ”

"It's not a matter of being in charge of this project, just be a qualified leader of the top tank, the people below Lao Wu will naturally take care of it, and we don't give our children the opportunity to exercise, this project is not large, it doesn't cost much, but it's very important, it's just right to test him! Don't be careful, hasn't the right to appoint and dismiss personnel have been delegated, and you will let the personnel department of Imperial Pharmaceutical have a headache...... [End of Chapter]