The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Jacques arrived in Chang'an City that day.

As an inland western metropolis, Chang'an has now become a center for scientific and technological innovation.

After Jacques arrived in Chang'an, he first talked with Wang Kejian, general manager of Roche's Qin Province Sales Company.

Wang Kejian is Chinese.

In order to better carry out sales work in China, Roche now basically employs all sales managers who are local Chinese.

This is because using foreigners to guide and manage sales work, even if this foreigner speaks excellent Chinese, it is still difficult for him to integrate into the local community and gain the trust of local doctors.

Jacques met Wang Kejian at the Qin Province branch of Roche.

"Wang, have you felt any major policy changes?" Jacques asked Wang Kejian.

Wang Kejian smiled bitterly and said, "There has been no change for the time being."

"But as long as the series of drugs from the Weimin Anti-Cancer Research Institute are put on the market, I believe that there will be a policy soon!"

"Domestic anti-cancer drugs will be recommended. If hospitals insist on vigorously promoting imported drugs, the person in charge will be in trouble."

"Also, their domestically produced anti-cancer drugs will surely be quickly included in medical insurance. By that time, the impact on us will be huge."

"It's the same as when it came to medical devices. The ropes will be tightened little by little, and eventually, the foreign brand market will shrink little by little. In short, the future is not good!"

The Chinese national policy on medical devices mentioned by Wang Kejian is actually being vigorously implemented now.

At present, with the strong support of the country, medical device companies in China are developing rapidly.

All medical devices can now be domestically produced.

Moreover, it is not just one company doing it, but many companies competing together.

The country’s current policy is very subtle, which is: to encourage hospitals to bid and use domestic medical devices!
If the hospital insists on purchasing foreign medical equipment, you must make a comprehensive explanation and prove that the medical equipment cannot be manufactured domestically or that there is some force majeure and that foreign medical equipment must be used.

The process of this proof is complicated.

No hospital director would dare to take such a big risk and insist on purchasing and using foreign medical equipment products.

This led to the collapse of foreign medical device giants in the Chinese market!
Originally, a high-end MRI machine cost tens of millions of RMB, but now? Domestic ones cost only a few million RMB, and their quality and functions are no worse than those of foreign ones.

Originally, a so-called top-level CT scanner cost 10 to 20 million RMB, but now, a domestically produced one only costs a few hundred thousand RMB, and the quality is not bad.

In the field of medical devices, domestic substitution is progressing rapidly.

The foreign brand market is collapsing at an accelerated pace.

China's medical device market is worth three to five hundred billion RMB per year.

Previously, these markets were almost entirely owned by foreign giants.

What now?
Chinese domestic medical devices have already occupied more than 90 percent of the market.

Even if foreign giant companies continue to expand their markets and sell their products in China, their prices have been slashed to rock-bottom prices.

This is also the main reason why Wang Kejian is so worried.

Jacques frowned and said, "King, then, do you have any good ideas to prevent our market from collapsing?"

Wang Kejian shook his head and said, "There is no better way."

Jacques said: "Can't our products be included in your medical insurance system?"

Wang Kejian said: "It's very difficult."

“Because our products are too expensive.”

"If you want to be included in the medical insurance, you have to be irreplaceable, and the price has to be low enough."

"But now, our products are not unique and are relatively easy to replace."

“So, we are really facing a major crisis now!”

Jacques' eyes flickered.

He was thinking.

“So what if we slashed the price?”

Wang Kejian shrugged: "How much do you plan to reduce it?"

Jacques said, "Let's talk to your medical insurance department. If they are willing to let us be included in your medical insurance, then the price of our entire product line can be significantly reduced to 10% of the original price or even lower!"

"We have to cut prices drastically to grab the market!"

"First kill that Weimin anti-cancer drug, and then raise the price!"

Wang Kejian didn't know what to say.

"Mr. Jacques, you may not know Zhang Zhipeng."

"Zhang Zhipeng publicly announced a few days ago that the anti-cancer drugs developed by his company will be promoted and sold in China in a non-profit model!"

“He wants to reduce the price of cancer drugs to one percent of the original price or even lower!”

Jacques almost jumped up from the sofa: "What? One percent? Is he crazy?"

"Could it be that a course of treatment for a special anti-cancer drug only costs a few thousand yuan? Then how do they make money?"

Jacques originally thought that the company's medicine was very expensive. Now, as long as the price was suddenly reduced to about 10% of the original price, China's medical insurance would definitely agree to include it, and patients would be happy to accept it.

Although a drop to 10% will seriously affect profits, it is better than zero sales, right?

What’s more, Roche’s drugs often cost only one thousandth of their selling price, or even less!
Their medicine may only cost 10 cents, but they can sell it to consumers for $100!

They originally earned excess profits of tens of thousands of percent in the Chinese market!

Of course, some of those excess profits will be shared with doctors, sales representatives, and some people in gray areas.

But the Luo family also accounts for the majority.

Wang Kejian shrugged and said, "Mr. Jacques, I have already said it: they said they want to make non-profit anti-cancer drugs, and only need a small amount of profit for sustainable development!"

Jacques murmured, "Hypocrisy! So hypocritical!"

"Even if the price is only one percent, there is still at least ten times the profit!"

Wang Kejian smiled bitterly and said nothing.

Jacques thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we use the media? We can spend a little money and ask all the media in China to help us promote our medicines, saying that our medicines are the most powerful anti-cancer drugs in the world and are good news for patients."

"If we adopt inappropriate methods to drive away special medicines from abroad, it would be irresponsible to patients."

"Well, let's do some charity work by the way, donate some medicine to some poor patients, and donate some medicine to the Red Cross."

"Then combine it with the patients and do a series of public welfare and charity reports."

Jacques thought of using the media to promote his company's drugs.

Wang Kejian nodded and said, "You can give it a try."

"In addition, I suggest that we must pay attention to self-media platforms. Weibo is now the largest self-media platform."

Jacques nodded and said, "That makes sense!"

"Then you will take care of this matter."

Wang Kejian said: "This will probably require a lot of money. You know, the media has a big appetite."

Jacques naturally knew that if he wanted to buy off the media and create public opinion that was favorable to him, it would require a lot of money.

"I'll give you 10 million RMB! But I require you to produce some results for me!"

"The first effect I require is to make the vast majority of patients and their families agree that Roche's drugs are the best drugs and the drugs that can save lives and cure diseases!"

“The second effect is to let the media create strong public opinion pressure so that the system will not dare to take action against us, the Roche.”

"The third effect is to strive to get Roche's most important drugs into the medical insurance system!"

"Can it be done?"

Wang Kejian thought, you want to do so many things with just 10 million?

Is that possible?

Don’t you know that Zhang Zhipeng, whom you are facing, is the most influential person in China?

Moreover, if you compare operations, do you have more resources than Zhang Zhipeng?

They have almost monopolized the Internet platform! Wang Kejian is under a lot of pressure.

At the same time, he felt that Luo's ship might be about to sink.

Now, it's time to do a little preparation.

Wang Kejian said: "Mr. Jacques, I cannot guarantee that these three good results can be achieved."

"Because the other party is Zhang Zhipeng!"

"Ten million resources are just drizzle in his eyes."

"He can even influence the highest levels if he wants to!"

Jacques sighed and said, "Do your best!"

“We may not be able to suppress the Weimin Cancer Research Institute at all.”

“But we have to try our best.”

"First, find some classic cases where the patients' conditions improved significantly or were even cured after using our Roche drugs."

“Let the patients speak out and let the media publicize it!”

"It will eventually form a positive public opinion."

"Then, we can use our connections to lobby and perhaps reverse the current crisis."

Wang Kejian nodded and said, "Then I will do this now, but the funds need to arrive as soon as possible."

Jacques said, "Don't worry, King. I will approve such an expense right away."

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The First Affiliated Hospital of Northwestern Polytechnical University is currently the best hospital in Chang'an.

Of course, originally Northwestern Polytechnical University did not even have a medical major.

Later, its school funding became too abundant, so it began to set up some liberal arts majors, and by the way, also started medical majors.

Their medical profession became unstoppable once it was established, because the money paid was high and the research funding was ample, so a large number of outstanding talents joined.

In the end, within just four or five years, Northwestern Polytechnical University's medical majors suddenly jumped to the top in the country.

Affiliated hospitals were also started.

Within five or six years, its First Affiliated Hospital quickly became the best hospital in Qin Province, surpassing the original Xijing Hospital and others.

Qin Fei is the owner of a private enterprise in Chang'an City.

His main business is the manufacturing of supporting products for various packaging.

After seven or eight years of hard work, he has now achieved some success, with assets worth hundreds of millions and annual revenue of more than 30 million.

He is a moderately wealthy man.

Unexpected things happen. Qin Fei was diagnosed with lung cancer a year ago.

At that time, the doctor said that the disease was discovered relatively early.

Therefore, as long as the surgery is performed and then chemotherapy is given for a few rounds, the chances of cure should be quite high.

Qin Fei is rich, so of course he will use the best medicine to treat the disease.

After the operation, Roche's chemotherapy drugs were used for treatment, and another Roche drug was taken as an auxiliary treatment.

After several rounds of chemotherapy, the doctor said there should be no problem.

As long as you observe regularly and take Roche's immunity-boosting drugs for a long time, there will be no problem.

Qin Fei also felt that he should be fine.

After all, he felt that he was in pretty good physical condition.

What's more, he has been taking Roche's drugs for a long time to maintain the therapeutic effect!

That kind of medicine costs 10 RMB per month!

If it were an ordinary person, they would have been unable to afford it long ago.

Qin Fei actually felt a little pain.

However, in order to save his life, he had no choice but to continue eating.

However, what he never expected was that when he went to the hospital for a follow-up examination due to extreme physical discomfort, the result of the follow-up examination was like a bolt from the blue!
His illness has relapsed! And it has reached the advanced stage!

What's even worse is that it has spread all over his body! This really scared Qin Fei.

He is still young, he is only 47 years old.

He wanted to continue living.

So he came to the First Affiliated Hospital of Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Here, he received precision treatment with a monoclonal antibody targeted drug provided by the Weimin Anti-Cancer Research Institute.

After all, he is no longer suitable for surgery!

He can only undergo chemotherapy.

However, chemotherapy drugs are also divided into different types.

General chemotherapy drugs kill both tumor cells and normal cells, which can easily cause patients to suffer pain, weakness and great damage.

Monoclonal antibodies, on the other hand, can only effectively kill certain tumor cells and will not harm healthy cells.

Therefore, monoclonal antibodies are more advanced chemotherapy drugs.

Qin Fei was originally still hesitating whether to accept the trial treatment of this monoclonal antibody drug from the Weimin Anti-Cancer Research Institute.

Because, testing drugs is like being a guinea pig.

He felt that as a rich man, he could afford better imported medicines, so why should he be a guinea pig?
He was reluctant and wanted to choose better imported medicine.

However, at this time, he heard the news that a patient who tried this medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital of Northwestern Polytechnical University had quickly recovered from the brink of death and would be discharged from the hospital to recuperate at home in the near future.

He hurried to find out what was going on.

Qin Fei finally decided to accept the free drug trial offer.

An agreement must be signed for drug testing.

If you volunteer to try the drug, if anything goes wrong in the future, you will have to bear the consequences yourself.

Qin Fei decided to sign it anyway.

Because he thought he should still trust Zhang Zhipeng.

Just like that, Qin Fei began to try the monoclonal antibody from Weimin Anti-Cancer Research Institute combined with other new drugs from Weimin Research Institute for treatment.

After just one week of taking the medicine, his condition was greatly alleviated.

After three weeks of taking the medicine, the lesions on Qin Fei's body had almost disappeared.

His health recovered quickly.

The doctor told him that his body might be more sensitive to this monoclonal antibody, so the treatment went well.

However, in order to consolidate the therapeutic effect, at least three more courses of treatment will be required, assisted by Weimin's immunity-enhancing drugs, which may effectively prolong life.

Of course, Qin Fei accepted the doctor's advice completely unconditionally.

He thought to himself, it seems that I was too superstitious about foreign medicine in the past.

It’s true that foreign medicines are extremely expensive, but their effects are really not as good as domestic ones!

Qin Fei no longer needs to be hospitalized.

He only needs to go to the hospital for treatment every other day and take medicine on weekdays.

You said he has fully recovered, so there is actually nothing wrong with him.

Just at this time, Wang Kejian, general manager of Roche's Qin Province Sales Company, came to visit him.

As soon as Qin Fei saw Wang Kejian, he felt very disgusted.

He had previously used Roche's medicine for treatment, and the total cost was over 10 million!
In the end, it relapsed and spread throughout the body!
Now, the Luo family’s people actually have the nerve to come to my house?
Qin Fei thought, then I'll just listen to whatever you say!
Wang Kejian smiled and said to Qin Fei: "Mr. Qin, I see you have recovered quite well." (End of this chapter)