Visitor Profiles

Domestic Visitors

* Administrative Departments of Population and Family Planning

* Administrative Department of Health

* Stations at all levels offering contraceptive drugs and devices
   management, organizations offering technical services, propaganda
   and training centers, R&D centers of population and family planning.

* Manufacturers, dealers and supermarket    groups dealing with reproductive health care    products, women's health care products,    products for infants and kids.

* Manufacturers, dealers and
   R&D organizations of medical
   equipment industry.

* National industry associations

* Consumers

International Visitors

* Relevant international organizations

* Administrative Councils or Departments of Population or Health

* Laboratories engaged in reproductive health products R&D

* Manufacturers searching for OEM on    reproductive health products, especially    those in the developed countries or those
   with advantages in certain industries.

* Trading companies dealing with reproductive    health products and products for pregnant    women and infants, especially those in    developing countries or those interested
   in traditional Chinese medicine.

* Maternity hospitals

* Hospitals engaged in treatment of infertility

Average expenses during the pre-natal period, according to the survey and statistics, in
2003, were RMB12,300 (equivalent to about US$2,000). The expenditure includes medical examination and care, nutrition for pregnant women, fetus education, personal health care products. For the past few years, the number of new-born babies remained stable at a rate
of about 16 million, of which about 30% are urban babies. Based on the consumption level
of 2003, the market demand was up to 60 billion RMB yuan (equal to about 7.5 billion US dollars).

During the post-natal period, there are 70 million
babies aged from 0-3 in China and 10.9 million of
them are urban babies whose consumption volume
is up to 10 billion RMB yuan (about 1.5 billion US dollars). The actual monthly expenses on the goods and articles
for infants and babies at the age of 0 - 3 amount to only 9 million RMB (over one million US dollars), including foods, health care products, toys, clothes and etc.

Individual Health Reproduction Market In China:

People in China are paying more and more attention to the individual health in reproduction and the life quality between husbands and wives. The expenditure on reproductive health care products in China has kept increasing at the rate of 15 - 30% which is much higher than the increase rate of 13% in developed countries. However, the rate of popularization for the use of these products, compared with developed countries, is a bit lower. Take the consumption on condom for instance, only 1.54 condoms per capita are used annually in China, while 12 are used in USA and European countries. And the average rate of using condom is 5.3% in China (19.5% in Shanghai). The demand of condom increases at a rate of 15% every year in China. Another example is that only 2.6% of women at the age of
15 - 45 in China take oral contraceptives, compared with 30 - 53% in developed countries.