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National Medical Products Administration / Center for Drug Evaluation

aka NMPA, CDE, CFDA, China FDA

China's drug regulator and its review centre, whose reforms since 2015 turned China into the world's second-largest source of new cancer drugs and a leader in ADCs and bispecifics.

The National Medical Products Administration (formerly CFDA) and its Center for Drug Evaluation regulate medicines in China. Reforms beginning in 2015 cleared a backlog of applications, accepted overseas clinical data, introduced breakthrough, conditional and priority review pathways, and brought China into ICH in 2017, cutting approval times and enabling domestic companies to develop PD-1 antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, bispecifics and CAR-T at pace. The CDE publishes technical guidelines including those on single-arm trials and oncology endpoints, and its decisions on domestic PD-1s, ivonescimab and Chinese ADCs are followed closely by global companies licensing Chinese assets. Reimbursement is decided separately through the National Reimbursement Drug List negotiations.

Location
Beijing, CN
Type
government
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#123 · 32 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 32 from 16 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Breakthrough, conditional and priority review pathways
  • ICH implementation and acceptance of overseas data
  • Oncology endpoint and single-arm trial guidance
  • Cell and gene therapy regulation

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