While new legislation has pushed prescription drug pricing high up the political agenda for US lawmakers, the issue has also come into the spotlight again for Chinese regulators, which have just launched new investigations into two officials. While the two countries are taking drastically different routes to tackling pricing, the developments show compliance risks remain high in China.

The future fate of Jiangsu Hengrui’s new drug discovery and development subsidiary may provide some tips on what’s ahead for the Chinese biopharma sector.

Among the newer modalities to tackle cancer, antibody-drug conjugates are fast emerging to rival targeted antibodies and China is fast emerging as a world class source of innovation in the field, as evidenced by a string of recent deals.