Caixin
Nov 06, 2023 08:49 AM
BUSINESS

Cover Story: The Miracle and Mirage of Weight Loss Drugs

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Liu Ping, a 25-year-old living in Beijing, is queuing up outside the obesity clinic of the Peking University People’s Hospital early one morning, seeking a doctor’s prescription for the so-called “skinny jab” — a weight loss drug that has created a buying frenzy in China, where half the adults out of a total population of 1.4 billion are either overweight or obese.

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