Pharmaceutical intermediate is a fine chemical product...

Pharmaceutical intermediate is a fine chemical product in the production process from pharmaceutical chemical raw materials to API or drugs. The synthesis of chemical drugs depends on high-quality pharmaceutical intermediates. Pharmaceutical intermediates can be divided into antibiotic pharmaceutical intermediates, antipyretic and analgesic pharmaceutical intermediates, cardiovascular pharmaceutical intermediates, anticancer pharmaceutical intermediates and so on.

In recent years, under the influence of environmental protection and safety production supervision policies, pharmaceutical intermediates and downstream API production enterprises are facing certain environmental protection and governance pressure. Some enterprises in the market have been gradually eliminated or forced to relocate and stop production because they can not meet the requirements of green production or enterprise scale can not meet the requirements of "returning to the city and entering the park". Therefore, the overall scale of China's pharmaceutical intermediates industry has shown a short-term adjustment trend in recent years. According to statistics, the output of pharmaceutical intermediates in China was 10.21 million tons in 2019, a year-on-year decrease of 1.07%. In 2020, affected by the COVID-19, the global pharmaceutical market rose rapidly. It is expected that the output of pharmaceutical intermediates in China will reach 10.29 million tons in 2022.