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Segmented Information (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
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Schedule of Company's total assets by geographic location |
|  | December 31, 2012 |  | December 31, 2013 |
Assets |  |  |  |  |
Mainland China |  | $ | 164,174 |  | $ | 199,703 |
Hong Kong |  | 44,589 |  | 40,990 |
Total |  | $ | 208,763 |  | $ | 240,693 |
Schedule of Company's revenues by product |
|  | For the year ended December 31, |
|  | 2011 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |
Sales |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Inactivated hepatitis vaccines |  | $ | 26,939 |  | $ | 39,951 |  | $ | 47,202 |
Influenza vaccines |  | 8,113 |  | 9,191 |  | 12,156 |
H5N1 |  | 7,782 |  | — |  | 10,736 |
H1N1 |  | 14,008 |  | — |  | — |
Mumps |  | — |  | 24 |  | 1,680 |
Rabend |  | — |  | 50 |  | 750 |
Total |  | $ | 56,842 |  | $ | 49,216 |  | $ | 72,524 |
Schedule of Company's revenues attributed to geographic locations |
|  | For the year ended December 31, |
|  | 2011 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |
Sales |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Mainland China |  | $ | 56,407 |  | $ | 48,199 |  | $ | 71,397 |
Foreign countries |  | 435 |  | 1,017 |  | 1,127 |
Total |  | $ | 56,842 |  | $ | 49,216 |  | $ | 72,524 |

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