The Medicine industry in Ningbo has a long history. Before liberation, there were many herbal medicine shops in the downtown area, the wholesale and retail business was booming at that time. After liberation, the medicine industry in Ningbo made a big progress step by step, several professional pharmaceutical factories were established. The main products are as follows: raw material, preparation, Chinese herbal medicine, herbal tablets, medical apparatus and instruments, sanitary material, pharmacy machinery and medical packing materials, altogether there are eight categories and more than 600 kinds of products.

The medicine industry in Ningbo has a good foundation, the categories are comparatively complete, which include the compound material medicine, western medicine preparation, Chinese herbal medicine, medicine extracted from the plants, herbal tablets and medical apparatus and instruments. The enterprises for material and preparation production are Ningbo Pharmaceutical Factory, Ningbo Second Pharmaceutical Factory, Ningbo Tian Heng Pharmaceutical Factory, etc; The enterprises for Chinese herbal medicine making are Ningbo Li Hua Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ningbo Chinese Herbal Factory; The enterprises for medical apparatus and instruments are Ningbo David Medical Apparatus and Instruments Co., Ltd., Ningbo Ya Tai Medical Apparatus and Instruments Co., Ltd. and Ningbo Medical Apparatus and Instruments factory.

During the fifth national five-year plan, the municipal government made a decision that the generic engineering and modern medical technology is one of the four hi-tech industries. The development of Ningbo medicine industry will focus on the biologic technology based on gene engineering: To develop the effective and high value added national grade one new medicine and its preparation, including levofloxacin hydrochloride, etc, to speed up the production technology and modernize the equipment, research and develop the new Chinese medicine for curing the cardiovascular/cerebral disease, cancer and virus disease; establish the research and production center of marine medicine like shark liver active peptide, etc; and based on the current micro-computerized baby culture box, analysis apparatus and orthopedics instruments these famous brand, to develop the high-tech equipments for diagnosis, treatment and medical check in cooperation with the institution and colleges.

Ningbo Medicine Holdings Group Co., Ltd
Add.: 202 South Jie Fang Road, 11/F Construction Building, Ningbo, P.R.C.
Post Code: 315000
Tel./Fax : 86-574-87190234