Multinational pharmas go ever further to secure business in China

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2013-08-16

GSK's office building in Tianjin. (Photo/Xinhua)

Police in China probing four senior executives of British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have expanded their investigation to AstraZeneca, Sanofi and Eli Lilly as the scandal has exposed a general culture of corruption in the country's healthcare sector, the Chinese-language magazine Capital Week reports. The executives at GSK China, including legal director Zhao Hongyan and HR director Alex Cheung were summoned over allegations of paying bribes to doctors and hospital officials.

Multinational pharmaceutical companies have been in the Chinese market for more than 30 years, developing from initial joint ventures to wholly owned subsidiaries, setting up factories, establishing research and development centers, and appointing locals as their chief executives in the country. They now use other methods to introduce new products to doctors and hospitals.

To better ingratiate themselves with the government, multinational pharmaceutical companies have actively recruited the offspring of senior government officials. Pfizer hired Feng Danlong, granddaughter of the famous general Feng Yuxiang, as its director of China corporate affairs and the company's spokesperson. Feng formerly was a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Insiders say that relying on market operations alone does not guarantee a company's success as each province's procurement and standards are all affected by the central government's policies. Therefore, companies have sought to influence the policymaking process as part of their way of doing business, the unnamed insider said.

Multinational pharmaceuticals are more familiar with national laws and policies than even some government officials, and far more than some domestic rivals. In recent years, however, the multinationals have been increasingly negotiating with the government and domestic health insurance agents over bids to provide cheaper and more accessible medication.

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"Recalibration of Free Choice"–  Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth,  4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical)  8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…7 - Predictions (Big Pharma)

There are two more. Very recently we gave you a prophecy of prediction. We reiterate it now. Right now on the planet there's something in the works that is going to bring big pharma to its knees. Much like what happened to the tobacco industry, where there was a realization of a lack of integrity, there was alarm and outrage. You saw an industry that knowingly addicted the young and caused death, and this was revealed. And it didn't take that long, did it? And we said this not too long ago, and I repeat: When you see an entire industry that, for monetary reasons, is willing to keep people sick for profit, it's going to fall over. Sooner than later. You're going to see the rumblings of it very soon.

You're going to start to see Human Beings look at their health in a different way. Do you know what the real answer to long-term health care is? Not only in this country, but the earth? I will give you a hint. Don't get sick! And that, dear Human Being, is what I'm going to tell you is at hand. Coming is an understanding of the body in a way you have not understood it before. Your DNA is built to regenerate and last for hundreds of years. Right now, you're here for a moment and you die. The research is there. The beginning of extended life is there. Human Beings are going to search for things that are natural and processes that have always existed, and that will have an avenue of opening because of the demise of big pharma. And you'll wonder why you didn't know it before and you will look back and cringe, like you do today with the ads of the '50s with the doctor smiling, recommending a certain kind of tobacco.

I don't have a clock, dear one. I cannot tell you when. I can only guarantee you it is going to happen. It has to. You cannot have systems that are that large that have no integrity existing in the new energy. Do you understand? Then there are those who will say, "I hope it happens while I'm here." Oh, it will. Maybe you won't be who you are today, but you'll be here to see it, old soul. [Kryon smile] And that was number seven... ..."