This year's provincial government work report proposed 'accelerating the cultivation of emerging and future industries.' Nuclear medicine, a trillion-yuan-scale industry with significant potential, has drawn considerable attention in Sichuan. The industry is primarily concentrated in Leshan, Chengdu, Mianyang, and Luzhou. How can an integrated industrial ecosystem be built and strengthened? Three local reporters discussed this issue.

Building an industrial ecosystem requires four key elements: Leshan's 'raw materials', Chengdu's 'pharmaceuticals', Mianyang's 'equipment', and Luzhou's clinical application and promotion. Jiajiang County in Leshan is the birthplace of China's first nuclear power plant and the R&D base for the country's first-generation nuclear submarines. It houses half of the nation's reactors capable of producing medical isotopes. A nuclear technology application industrial park is currently under construction there, with the potential to achieve large-scale domestic supply of critical isotopes in the future, enabling China to transition from an importer to a potential exporter.

Luzhou, leveraging Southwest Medical University, is establishing itself as a talent hub for nuclear medicine and boasts four 'firsts': the highest number of nuclear medicine patients treated nationwide, the greatest academic paper impact in the field nationally, the country's first nuclear medicine industry college, and Asia's largest nuclear medicine center. Efforts are now accelerating to cultivate talent and promote clinical applications, addressing the challenge of 'having personnel who know how to use these technologies'.

A provincial People's Congress delegate has recommended including new radioactive therapy procedures and drugs in the national medical insurance reimbursement list to alleviate patients' financial burdens and support the high-quality development of the industry.

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