我国的医疗器械经历了从无到有、从小到大的发展过程，其主要发展期在1949年以后。新中国成立初期，我国医疗器械工业总产值很低，约192万元。经过50年的发展，全国医疗器械工业总产值1999年已达320亿元，年增长率约为15％。目前，全国已有医疗器械工业企业5 700多家，其中专营 China’s medical devices have experienced a development process from scratch and from small to large, with the main development period after 1949. In the early days of the founding of New China, the total output value of China’s medical device industry was very low, about 1.92 million yuan. After 50 years of development, the total output value of the national medical device industry reached 32 billion yuan in 1999, and the annual growth rate is about 15%. At present, there are more than 5,700 medical device industry enterprises in the country, including franchise