Beijing Xiangrui Import and Trade Technology Co., Ltd.

After Xiaocheng came to a university in Wuhan, China to study, he has been staying in China and traveling to and from India several times a year. He first purchased medicines for his friends, and gradually discovered the potential market benefits.
In fact, purchasing drugs on behalf of others is not that complicated. It is almost the same as buying bags and electronic products abroad. By chance, a friend asked Xiaocheng to help him purchase medicines. Only then did he learn that many domestic patients had such purchasing needs. It was the first time that Xiao Cheng helped someone buy medicines. He didn't understand the procedures here and didn't ask for relevant invoices. When going through customs, he changed his tactics several times and finally lied about bringing vitamins into China.
Xiaocheng learned that there is a huge profit margin for purchasing drugs in India. Some professional purchasing agents will increase the price of the drugs up to 100 times after bringing them back to China. Some institutions will provide formal purchase invoices and then bring them domestically via or direct mail. The price of such purchasing will be much higher.
Regular pharmacies in India also require you to book in advance with a prescription and the patient's ID. Of course, there are also pharmacies that sell medicines directly for the sake of sales without checking the relevant certificates of patients. Xiao Cheng said that when he works as a purchasing agent for others, he has to make reservations with pharmacies at least 30 days in advance before he can pick up medicines. Professional purchasing agencies will purchase large quantities of medicines in batches through private channels to meet the requirements of purchasing agents.
Searching for keywords such as Iressa in search engines such as Baidu [Weibo], the reporter found a large number of links containing purchasing information. Most of these purchasing information are found in some online posts asking questions, claiming that they are international students and can provide purchasing services between China and India. Xiaocheng said that some individual businessmen traveling between China and India or company employees with business dealings between the two countries have also become members of the purchasing agent army.
Even some drug dealers at the entrance of hospitals claim to have obtained counterfeit drugs through purchasing agents. You see, this is a photo of our purchasing invoice, as well as air tickets to and from India, passport documents, and the Indian newspaper of the day. It is absolutely guaranteed to be authentic. At the entrance of a tertiary hospital, the reporter met many such drug dealers.
In addition to purchasing agents, there are also local Indians who use their abundant resources to carry out direct mail purchasing services. The reporter searched for Iressa on multiple shopping websites, but the page showed that it could not be displayed according to relevant laws, regulations and policies. Xiaocheng told reporters that in order to ensure the efficacy and credibility of the medicine, some purchasing agents will allow demanders to use third-party payment methods and pay after receiving the medicine. Such products will not be sold directly, but will be changed to other products. Conduct transactions to create the illusion that the goods are on the shelves in the online store.
Cancer patients’ bet on counterfeit drugs
The undercurrent of generic drugs in India is due to the high cost of imported drugs and the astonishing profits of foreign pharmaceutical companies in China. Some media pointed out that Zheng Zongmei, a medical policy research analyst at Princeton University in the United States, said that a survey conducted in 2016 showed that the price of imported drugs sold in the Chinese market was twice as high as that in the UK on average. It is also reported that Herceptin, which has the same specifications for treating breast cancer, is sold in mainland China, while the lowest price quoted by pharmacies in Hong Kong is Hong Kong dollars (approximately RMB). But in fact, the cost of these imported drugs is not high. Taking the Iressa taken by Zhao Yue's mother as an example, the raw material cost is 1 yuan per gram, and a box of raw materials costs less than 1 yuan.