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Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals

Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals: A leading Chinese pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, with corporate offices in Shanghai and a global presence including R&D centres in the US and Europe. It specialises in the research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of innovative drugs, primarily focusing on oncology, surgical medicines, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases. The company is recognised as China’s largest listed pharmaceutical firm and consistently ranks among the top global pharmaceutical companies. Its overall business focus is on innovation, significant R&D investment, and global expansion to address unmet medical needs.

Semaglutide generated about US$35 billion in global revenue last year. Photo: AFP

China’s private sector

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Patent expiry of blockbuster drug opens door for Chinese drug makers to challenge multinationals in booming weight-loss market.

26 Mar 2026 - 11:00AM

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There were more than 400 million overweight or obese adults in China in 2021, according to a study. Photo: Getty Images

Made in China 2025

Chinese biotechs strike a record US$136 billion in out-licensing deals in 2025

Chinese drug makers signed 157 out-licensing deals with global pharmaceutical firms last year versus 94 a year earlier.

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Science

China’s biopharma sector ‘in prime position to challenge US leadership’

American commission issues stark warning, as analytics firm Clarivate reports that Chinese innovative drug development has entered new phase.

3 Jan 2026 - 7:55AMvideocam

United States

Are Chinese biotechs what the doctor ordered as Big Pharma faces ‘patent cliff’?

US drug makers are racing to plug looming ‘patent cliff’ revenue gaps – and increasingly they are turning to China biotechs.

20 Dec 2025 - 8:57AM

US drugmakers are increasingly looking to Chinese biotechs as an answer to the revenue gaps left by the looming ‘patent cliff’. Illustration by Henry Wong

Made in China 2025

China’s pharmaceutical industry transforms into a global innovation powerhouse

The China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Invention Index, a new gauge, highlights top drug makers on the mainland for the first time.

19 Dec 2025 - 8:30AM

China stock market

FTSE’s rebalancing of China indexes to spur US$850 million fund flows: Goldman

Consumer retailers, carmakers and internet companies are expected to bear the brunt of fund outflows.

4 Dec 2025 - 3:01PM

China economy

Opinion | How China engineered the rapid rise of its drug innovation industry

A market once dominated by generics is now an AI-powered pharmaceutical hub drawing billion-dollar investments from the likes of Pfizer and GSK.

4 Dec 2025 - 10:51AMvideocam

A worker checks the position of a feeding tray in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility at the Hengrui Biomedical Industrial Park in Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, on December 13, 2021. Photo: Getty Images

New medical drugs

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China’s biotech renaissance is gathering pace as home-grown innovators strike billion-dollar licensing deals with global giants.

11 Dec 2025 - 10:09AM

United States

China’s pharmaceutical sector surges amid growth in sales, licensing income

Strong growth momentum and global push expected to continue, HSBC says.

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The Pfizer deal is not good news for Chinese firms developing weight-loss drugs with the aim of reducing injections, an analyst says. Photo: Shutterstock

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China’s Hengrui gets boost from fifth drug-licensing deal of year

Shares rise after Mumbai-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals strikes deal for cancer drug.

25 Sep 2025 - 5:43PM

A worker checks a machine at Hengrui Biomedical Industrial Park in Lianyungang, in East China’s Jiangsu province, on December 13, 2021. Photo: Future Publishing via Getty Images

Health in China

Beijing tackles drug price wars with new tendering rules in anti-involution push

China’s new drug procurement rules prioritise quality over price in a bid to curb cutthroat competition.

23 Sep 2025 - 7:30AM

Biomedicine: Companies

Ascletis trial shows drug candidate ASC47 boosts semaglutide weight loss effect

Chinese biotech firm is among dozens of mainland drug makers seeking to compete in the global market for diabetes and weight-loss drugs.

22 Sep 2025 - 5:21PM

Hong Kong stock market

Chinese biotechs get a shot in the arm from policy support, licensing deals

‘We are on an upcycle in the industry and sentiment is very strong,’ Xufunds Investment fund manager Wang Chen says.

19 Sep 2025 - 4:50PM

Shares of WuXi Biologics have more than doubled year to date. Photo: Shutterstock

IPO

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The company could raise more than US$3 billion and could start taking orders from other investors and the public as soon as Friday.

18 Sep 2025 - 6:25PM

Banking & finance

China’s healthcare segment eyes record fundraising amid global investor surge

China biotech remains a market bright spot with strong growth, driven by out-licensing, efficiency improvements and cost control.

10 Sep 2025 - 2:25PM

IPO

Hong Kong IPO pipeline swells as Chinese tech listings lure global investors

More than 200 companies await approval amid ‘strong global interest in China’s tech sector’, CEO of bourse operator says.

5 Sep 2025 - 3:30PM

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing CEO Bonnie Chan Yiting speaks the the bourse operator’s Future Tech Summit on September 5, 2025 in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Biomedicine: Companies

China’s Jiangsu Hengrui signs licensing deal with Braveheart Bio for heart drug

The licensing deal for the HRS-1893 innovative drug could fetch as much as US$1.01 billion in milestone payments.

5 Sep 2025 - 4:20PM

The headquarters of Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceutical in Lianyungang Economic and Technological Development Zone, in Jiangsu province. Photo: Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images

China Future Tech briefing

Biomedicine | China goes big on weight-loss drugs in Novo, Eli Lilly challenge

Demand for anti-obesity drugs has expanded along with people’s waistlines, and Chinese companies are seeking to cash in with new treatments.

2 Sep 2025 - 2:58PMvideocam

Biomedicine: Companies

Chinese pharma firms Hengrui, Hansoh expected to post strong first-half profits

Novel drug roll-outs and revenue from licensing buoy results.

18 Aug 2025 - 7:30AM

Biomedicine: Companies

Opinion | Biotech successes helping Chinese intellectual property go global

After years of buying licences for foreign-made medicines, Chinese biotech firms are now profiting handsomely from their own innovations.

5 Aug 2025 - 5:30AMvideocam

Visitors walk beside the booth of British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company AstraZeneca during the third China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on July 17. Photo: EPA

Wealth management

Shareholders of Chinese firms eye Hong Kong for family offices: asset manager

Chairman of Oakwise Capital says wealthy mainland Chinese will continue looking to Hong Kong as a home for their family offices.

21 Jul 2025 - 11:38AM

Wang Fengyu, founder and chairman of Hong Kong-based Oakwise Capital. Photo: Handout

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Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals

China’s obesity drug makers take on global giants as Novo Nordisk patent expires

Patent expiry of blockbuster drug opens door for Chinese drug makers to challenge multinationals in booming weight-loss market.

Hong Kong-listed Chinese drug firms set to turn corner on rising sales, deals

China could approve first AI-designed drug next year, Merck executive says

China’s weight-loss drug war: prices slashed up to 80% as obesity crisis worsens

Foreign, local firms fight for market share as number of overweight or obese adults could top 630 million by 2050, from 400 million in 2021.

Chinese biotechs strike a record US$136 billion in out-licensing deals in 2025

Chinese drug makers signed 157 out-licensing deals with global pharmaceutical firms last year versus 94 a year earlier.

China’s biopharma sector ‘in prime position to challenge US leadership’

American commission issues stark warning, as analytics firm Clarivate reports that Chinese innovative drug development has entered new phase.

Are Chinese biotechs what the doctor ordered as Big Pharma faces ‘patent cliff’?

US drug makers are racing to plug looming ‘patent cliff’ revenue gaps – and increasingly they are turning to China biotechs.

China’s pharmaceutical industry transforms into a global innovation powerhouse

The China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Invention Index, a new gauge, highlights top drug makers on the mainland for the first time.

FTSE’s rebalancing of China indexes to spur US$850 million fund flows: Goldman

Consumer retailers, carmakers and internet companies are expected to bear the brunt of fund outflows.

.css-1pcrwvc{color:#2aa191;}Opinion | How China engineered the rapid rise of its drug innovation industry

A market once dominated by generics is now an AI-powered pharmaceutical hub drawing billion-dollar investments from the likes of Pfizer and GSK.

6 of the best: the billion-dollar biotechs putting China on the map

China’s biotech renaissance is gathering pace as home-grown innovators strike billion-dollar licensing deals with global giants.

China’s pharmaceutical sector surges amid growth in sales, licensing income

Strong growth momentum and global push expected to continue, HSBC says.

China’s drug developers stretch to become a global force

Although a start-up’s recent triumph is seen as a ‘DeepSeek moment’, domestic players still trail world-beating pharma firms, experts say.

Pfizer’s Metsera acquisition to spur Chinese search for new weight drugs

The deal, worth up to US$7.3 billion, will encourage ongoing investment by mainland players but not draw in new rivals, analysts say.

China’s Hengrui gets boost from fifth drug-licensing deal of year

Shares rise after Mumbai-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals strikes deal for cancer drug.

Beijing tackles drug price wars with new tendering rules in anti-involution push

China’s new drug procurement rules prioritise quality over price in a bid to curb cutthroat competition.

Ascletis trial shows drug candidate ASC47 boosts semaglutide weight loss effect

Chinese biotech firm is among dozens of mainland drug makers seeking to compete in the global market for diabetes and weight-loss drugs.

Chinese biotechs get a shot in the arm from policy support, licensing deals

‘We are on an upcycle in the industry and sentiment is very strong,’ Xufunds Investment fund manager Wang Chen says.

Zijin Gold’s Hong Kong IPO draws GIC, Millennium and Hillhouse, sources say

The company could raise more than US$3 billion and could start taking orders from other investors and the public as soon as Friday.

China’s healthcare segment eyes record fundraising amid global investor surge

China biotech remains a market bright spot with strong growth, driven by out-licensing, efficiency improvements and cost control.

Hong Kong IPO pipeline swells as Chinese tech listings lure global investors

More than 200 companies await approval amid ‘strong global interest in China’s tech sector’, CEO of bourse operator says.

China’s Jiangsu Hengrui signs licensing deal with Braveheart Bio for heart drug

The licensing deal for the HRS-1893 innovative drug could fetch as much as US$1.01 billion in milestone payments.

.css-19im5qg{color:#c79a00;}Biomedicine | China goes big on weight-loss drugs in Novo, Eli Lilly challenge

Demand for anti-obesity drugs has expanded along with people’s waistlines, and Chinese companies are seeking to cash in with new treatments.

Chinese pharma firms Hengrui, Hansoh expected to post strong first-half profits

Novel drug roll-outs and revenue from licensing buoy results.

Opinion | Biotech successes helping Chinese intellectual property go global

After years of buying licences for foreign-made medicines, Chinese biotech firms are now profiting handsomely from their own innovations.

Shareholders of Chinese firms eye Hong Kong for family offices: asset manager

Chairman of Oakwise Capital says wealthy mainland Chinese will continue looking to Hong Kong as a home for their family offices.

Opinion | How China engineered the rapid rise of its drug innovation industry

Biomedicine | China goes big on weight-loss drugs in Novo, Eli Lilly challenge