A few days ago, the E-commerce Research Center of NetEase released the “2021 China Digital Health Market Data Report” (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”) to interpret the development of digital health in 2021 through data. Chen Liteng, a life service e-commerce analyst at the E-commerce Research Center of Netease, said that digital health is based on the Internet to realize the online and digitalization of multiple links such as medical care, medicine, and medical insurance, mainly including Internet medical care (online consultation, online registration) , health management, Internet medical beauty, maternal and child medical care, vaccination, Internet psychology, etc.), pharmaceutical e-commerce, sports fitness and other formats.
The “Report” shows that the digital health market size in 2021 will be 409.09 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41.06%. The market size (growth rate) from 2017 to 2020 was 102.37 billion yuan, 139.54 billion yuan (36.31%), 200.83 billion yuan (43.92%), and 290.01 billion yuan (44.41%).
Among them, the Internet medical market size in 2021 is about 223 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 43.87%. From 2017 to 2020, the market size (growth rate) was 56.6 billion yuan (29.81%), 73.8 billion yuan (30.38%), 104.4 billion yuan (41.46%), and 155 billion yuan (48.46%). In terms of users, the number of Internet medical users in 2021 will be 710 million, a year-on-year increase of 7.25%.
In terms of pharmaceutical e-commerce, the market size of pharmaceutical e-commerce in 2021 will be 185.09 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 37.09%. From 2017 to 2020, the market size (growth rate) was 45.77 billion yuan (70.91%), 65.74 billion yuan (43.63%), 96.43 billion yuan (46.68%), and 135.01 billion yuan (40%).
The “Report” shows that in 2021, China’s digital health financing totaled 18.41 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 40.32%, and the financing amount reached a record high; the total number of financings was 61, a year-on-year increase of 69.44%.
Among the 61 financing events for digital health in 2021, the top ten in terms of financing amount are: Miaoshou Doctor (3 billion yuan), WeDoctor (400 million US dollars), Keep (360 million US dollars), pharmacists Bang (270 million US dollars), Dingdang Kuaiyao (220 million US dollars), Shanghai Pharma Cloud Health (1.033 billion yuan), Lingjian (100 million US dollars), Jianhai Technology (500 million yuan), Zhuozheng Medical (6000 million US dollars), Yunkai Yamei (200 million yuan).
In addition, in terms of the monthly distribution of financing amount, the top three are: 7.093 billion yuan (38.51%) in February, 4.454 billion yuan (24.18%) in June, and 2.554 billion yuan (1.387 billion yuan) in January. %). In terms of provincial distribution, the top three are: Beijing with 17 cases (27.87%), Guangdong with 11 cases (18.03), Zhejiang and Shanghai tied for 10 cases (16.39%).
The “Report” also shows that active investors in digital health in 2021 include Huaying Securities, Matrix Partners China, Sequoia Fund, Shunwei Capital, Qiming Ventures, Plum Ventures, Baidu, IDG Capital, etc.