Overall drug price slashes resulted in declined pharmaceutical production value.

Ongoing drug price slashes along with the implementation of the actual purchase price reimbursement system have resulted in about 4% value plunge of the total pharmaceutical production in 2000.

Such a pharmaceutical production decline in value happened again since the IMF economic crisis in 1998 when a 2% negative growth recorded, largely owing to the massive price slash by 30.7% in Nov. 19...