Medicine trade tops $100b in 2015

China's trade in medicines hit an all-time high of $102 billion last year.

The latest figures from the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products show the value was a 4.73 percent increase on 2014, and this year total export-import volumes are expected to rise again, by 3 to 5 percent.

Xu Ming, the chamber's deputy director, called the overall growth "healthy and stable", adding, however, that the Chinese export market had slowed.