A Survey on Chinese Medicine Industry Development in Hong Kong

To support further innovation, social and economic developments in Hong Kong, HKJCICM is conducting a survey on future developments of the Chinese medicine (CM) industry. With a few minutes of your precious time, you will be able to help HKJCICM better understand the needs and expectations for furthering CM and industry development in Hong Kong. HKJCICM will analyse the data collected with presentation of the survey on an anonymous basis. Personal information will be kept strictly confidential. Thank you for your cooperation. (Deadline: 30 June 2009)

Please answer each question by ticking the most crucial area(s) (multiple answers are allowed). If you do not want to answer a particular question, please tick the “No comment’ box.

A) Macro-Environment

1. Areas most crucial for advancing CM development?
Government policy and coordination
Encouraging industry investment in branding, quality, innovation and applied research
Funding availability and intensity of funding from public sector
Expediting high quality research and development (incl. basic & applied research)
Education and training
Technical intermediary and services
Promotion and public education
Comments / Others，please specify:
No comment

2. New CM facilities or set-ups required in Hong Kong?
CM Hospital
CM testing cum authentication centre
Herbal / botanical garden and eco-preservation centre
Comments / Others，please specify:
No comment

B) R&D, Innovation and Application

3. Types of CM R&D?
Basic research (medical practice)
Basic research (herbs and medicines)
Applied research and development (technologies, clinical research, product development and information services)
Applied research and development (medical instrumentation and devices)
Comments / Others，please specify:
No comment

4. Focus areas for CM applied research?
R&D of new drugs
R&D of health products
Clinical research (incl. integrative Chinese and western medicine)
Manufacturing / processing technology and support
Information : medicinal plants, evidence and safety
Information & technical intermediary: quality control & standardisation development
Information & advisory: regulatory and market
Comments / Others，please specify:
No comment

5. Areas for upgrading local CM industry?
CM quality control and technical support
Research of CMs on diseases with unmet medical needs
Access to information
Production, technologies, training and support
Intellectual property protection
Regulatory advisory
Comments / Others，please specify:
No comment

C) CM Education and Training

6. Areas requiring further development?
Curriculum (design & accreditation)
Specialty training
Professional status accreditation
Continuing education
Comments / Others，please specify:
No comment

D) Health Services

7. Types of CM health services required in Hong Kong?
Out-patient clinic
In-patient service
Specialty consultation
Integrative CM-western medical consultation
CM health-nurturing and maintenance service
Comments / Others，please specify:
No comment

E) Other comments，please specify：