These new policies indicate that consumption of China's domestic drugs will be on the steady increase in the future.

Many joint venture drugs are used to treat some difficult diseases, and though their prices are high, their volume is quite small.

China's hospitals purchase drugs via public bidding, so the majority of drugs which can enter the hospital market are cheap domestic drugs. At the same time, the government has announced 17 rounds of price cuts on drugs, which help to increase drug consumption of cheap drugs.

We hope that new progress will be made in the future under the framework of the six-party talks, although we know that there would be inevitable difficulties,

I will be meeting with Bruce and Frank Warren to discuss the future,

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.