China has not produced a new drug for theglobal market since artemisinin for malaria in the 1970s — a breakthrough forwhich chemist Tu Youyou was awarded a Nobel Prize last year — and even that wasnot adopted widely until its commercialisation by Novartis of Switzerland inthe 1990s.(中国自从1970年屠呦呦发明青蒿素之后,没有能为国际市场贡献一款新药!而即使是青蒿素,也是瑞士诺华公司在90年代推广起来的)