VCs already eyeing potential in new Chinese health care reforms

VCs already eyeing potential in new Chinese health care reforms

Last week, China’s State Council approved sweeping reform of its health care system, infusing it with $125 billion to provide universal medical coverage by 2011. And already venture capitalists all over the world are anticipating the opportunities in life science fields — pharmaceuticals, device making, etc. — that this avalanche of new funding will make possible.

Medical care in China has been somewhat of a disaster since the demise of the state-run system of the 1980s…. Continue Reading