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On July 21, 2023, the National Health Commission jointly held a video conference with ten departments, including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Public Security, to deploy a one-year centralized rectification of corruption in the national medical field.

Three days later, the National Health and Health Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission and other six departments issued the Key Task of Deepening the reform of the medical and Health system in the second half of 2023, which listed the anti-corruption of the medical industry as the key task of medical reform in the second half of the year.

On July 25, the draft amendment (12) to the Criminal Law, which was reviewed for the first time, added a new clause to the provisions on bribery crimes, proposing that bribery in areas such as education and health care will be severely punished.

Then, on July 28, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection led the deployment of discipline inspection and supervision organs to cooperate with the centralized rectification of corruption in the national pharmaceutical field, and many high-level officials of the central and local discipline commissions and supervisory commissions attended or participated in the video conference, pushing the strategic status of the pharmaceutical anti-corruption to a higher place.

Over the next few days, storms swept into the provinces. On August 2, many provinces in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hainan and Hubei successively issued a notice to focus on the rectification of corruption and chaos in the pharmaceutical field in the province.

After the opening of the 31st, affected by multiple factors such as the pharmaceutical anti-corruption incident, the secondary market pharmaceutical sector as a whole fell, a number of pharmaceutical stocks opened down and continued to dive, the same day announced that the chairman of the suspected duty crime of Siren biology (688163.SH) once fell by more than 16%, pharmaceutical leader Hengrui Medicine (600276.SH) almost fell by the limit. Then came its local office as a whole was end, Hengrui had to urgently refute rumors.

Anti-corruption, for the past 20 years and especially for the past five years, has been a priority in the field of medicine, with documents and models every year, but there are signs that this time is especially different.