Primarily engages in the provision of examination, separation, matching and the storage services of haematopoietic stem cells, or blood stem cells. Such storage facilities are usually known as the Cord Blood Bank.
Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Storage Permit issued by the Ministry of Health in the PRC in late 2002
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Currently holds TWO of the FOUR Permits granted--Beijing and Guangdong Province
Storage
Facilities, or Cord Blood Banks ("CBBs")
Current (by 31 March 2007)
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The first one is in Beijing, which can store 100,000 units of blood stem cells. In May 2007, we expanded this service to Guangdong Province
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Beijing's CBB divides into Public Bank (that currently stores over 7,000 units of donated blood stem cells) and Private Bank (that currently stores over 23,000 units of blood stem cells of our fee-paying customers).
Pricing
Initial:
RMB 5,000 (including extraction and examination of blood stem cells)
Annual fee:
RMB 620 (including the medical insurance of the baby)
Lump sum fee (for 18 years of storage):20% discount