On December 22, 2023, the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation issued the Administrative Penalty Decision to four pharmaceutical companies. These four pharmaceutical companies are: Shanghai Shanghai Pharmaceutical First Biochemical Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. *** Wuhan Huihai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Wuhan Kede Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Hubei Minkang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The reason for the punishment is: these four companies used their market dominance position of polymyxin B sulfate for injection to increase the price of raw materials purchased from Denmark at 73-94 yuan to 18-3.50,000 g**. 
According to statistics, since 2017, in the United States, India, Russia and other countries, the same or similar specifications of pharmaceuticals** are about 47-183 yuan, but the Chinese market is as high as 2303-2978 yuan, which is 12-62 times that of foreign countries. The figure below shows the price list of some countries of the drug since 2017 (** from "Tiantian Finance"). 
Normally, when a drug enters a certain country's market, the selling price is usually related to the sales volume: the larger the sales volume, the lower the sales volumeThe smaller the sales, the higher the sales. In the above, the sales volume of the United States, India, and Russia is about the same as that in China, but not at the same level;Ranked 5th to 11th in the table above, the market is small and the sales volume is low, but ** is also very low. In Bangladesh, it's even as low as 23 yuan per stick. 
I am a layman in medicine, and I don't know what disease this drug is used for, but I know that the drug has a strong advantage over infectious diseases. In addition, logically, a drug can push ** to such a point, which obviously has its uniqueness and irreplaceability. Otherwise, if it's too high, no one will buy it. Therefore, it is certainly not an exaggeration to call this drug, called "polymyxin sulfate B". We have no way of knowing how many patients have been impoverished by medicines, and how many have lost their health and even their lives because they cannot afford it. There is no moral obstacle to characterizing the actions of these companies as "murder for money", at least from a moral point of view. Judging from the introduction in the "Administrative Penalty Decision", these companies gain control and dominance by sending "benefits", push the company dozens of times higher through mutual buying and selling, and then establish a sales network that is far more huge than pyramid schemes, and obtain ridiculously high monopoly profits. Looking back at their operation process, from procurement, production, distribution to finally into the patient's vein, every step is a conspiracy, every step is a crime, and every step is chilling down the spine. The most appropriate way to deal with this crime is to punish these four pharmaceutical companies to bankruptcy and send their decision-makers to prison. But even more shocking than their recklessness is the severity of the punishment. 
According to the Administrative Penalty Decision, "after comprehensive consideration", the punishment imposed by the Shanghai Municipal Supervision Bureau on Shanghai Shanghai Pharmaceutical First Biochemical Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is: stop the illegal acts and confiscate the illegal gains 33.8 billion and a fine of 3% of sales in 2022112.4 billion, a total of 46.2 billion. Compared with those old farmers and hawkers who have been fined tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars for selling a few catties of vegetables, the cost of some people doing evil is too low and too low - these pharmaceutical companies have been making illegal profits since at least 2017, but the punishment is limited to sales in 2023 - so low that there is almost no cost!No one is held accountable for such a crime. In this case, countless individuals with power made illegal profits, and only businesses – and not privately owned – were eventually fined symbolically. We know that the value of the law is not only in punishment, but also in guiding the value trend of society. From this point of view, such penalties – the use of administrative penalties to lightly pass away egregious crimes – are tantamount to helping them clear their hands and encourage companies to continue to do so. 
Some people often sigh that this industry is rotten, and that industry is rotten. In fact, any industry is in a holistic environment, like the water in a river, you very much point out which area the water has deteriorated, which area has clean water. Perhaps, we should think more seriously about who made this industry and that industry rotten one by one100 help plan