The picture is somewhat confusing because of recent consolidation in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry. Shanghai Pharmaceuticals is China's biggest pharmaceutical commercial company. It is currently China's biggest producer of hormones as well as pharmaceuticals used in family planning and to combat tumors.
China has a big population and so there is a great future in the pharmaceutical field.
Hualian Pharamceutical has a great deal of room in which to grow. There are three companies in China that make RU-486. The market will grow, but since it is a family planning product, the product will be controlled to a certain extent by the government. Sales will grow steadily but not very rapidly. The PRC State Planning Commission Science and Technology Department named RU-486 as a medicine deserving high priority in development efforts.