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What industry does the pharmacy belong to?

Pharmacy belongs to the pharmaceutical industry.

He is the same as the medical industry, and pharmacies are also a small part of the medical industry. In the hospital, he is a drug supplier for hospital patients, while outside, he is just a drug retailer. His staff pharmacist is a professional pharmacist with pharmacist qualification certificate and wants to graduate from the medical department. Pharmacy can't operate without professional pharmacists, so it belongs to the medical industry.

Current situation of drug sales industry

In terms of sales amount, the data show that in 2020, the sales of public hospital terminals, public primary medical terminals and retail pharmacy terminals will be10512/1595/433 billion yuan respectively, with a year-on-year increase of-12.04%/-kl.

From the perspective of sales growth rate, since 20 13, with the gradual increase of sales scale, the sales growth rate of the three terminals has shown a downward trend as a whole, among which the sales growth rate of retail pharmacy terminals is the most stable and exceeds the sales growth rate of public hospital terminals in 20 16.