CHINAMED, the international medical instruments and equipment exhibition, was inaugurated at Beijing International Exhibition Center on April 26, 2004.

The event is jointly organized by the Medical Department of the General Logistics Department, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China World Trade Center Co, Ltd., China Hui Tong (Group) Corporation, and Messe Düsseldorf China Ltd.

Since its debut in 1989, every year the event receives tens of thousands of professionals from trade companies, research institutions, governmental organizations, and hospital procurement and administration teams interested in the medical equipment industry, an official release said.

Recently, CHINAMED was approved as a member of UFI (Union des Foires Internationales).

Major groups from Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Finland are participating in the event. And exhibitors are coming from all the continents, covering countries and regions including China, U S, Germany, Japan, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, Malaysia, Italy, the Netherlands, South Korea, Belgium, Brazil, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), and Taiwan.

Leading enterprises including GE, Philips, Siemens, Toshiba, Madison Medical, Schiller, Olympus, Kodak, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Taiyo Koeki Co, Ltd., and Beijing Fukuda Denshi Medical Instruments Co, Ltd and Shengyang Neusoftdigital Medical System Co., Ltd are among the participants’ lists, the release stated.