Abstract:As the speed-restricting phase in the medical research, clinical research is inevitable for the development of the drugs, medical devices and therapies. The main pathway to improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research is to cumulate the resources and actors, and to speed up the research process by organizing the clinical research networks. This study investigated and summarized the typical clinical research networks, i.e., the comprehensive and disease-specific clinical research networks in the UK and USA. Based on the analysis of current status and organization mode of the clinical research in China, we proposed 6 measures for the further improvement, i.e., improving the number and research capacity of medical centers (1st); combing the demands from the down-to-up clinical actors and the up-to-down strategic guidance (2nd), setting up the specific management institutes and the funds for the clinical research networks (3rd), the flexible combination of comprehensive and diseases-specific clinical research networks (4th), flatting the structure of clinical research networks and activating the research units (5th), and promoting synergy effect and the resource integration of actors within the research networks (6th).