If making a forecast of the market for APIs(active pharmaceutical ingredients)in 2009,there are not enough favorable factors tosay"optimistic",and it would be too pes-simistic to say"downslide".Perhaps it isproper to say that the competition will be"fiercer".The aggravation of the global eco-nomic crisis will have anegative impact on almost every traditionalsector.The capital shortage and the consump-tion contraction will at least affect the marketconsumption growth of medicines.As medi-cines are irreplaceable commodities.the phar-maceutical sector can be said to be a harbor of
