The Northeast Pharmacy Co (formerly the Northeast Pharmacy Plant) goes back to 1946 and is a large State-owned manufacturing enterprise with 11,000 employees, annual revenues of around 9 billion yuan and exports worth $100 million, and is a major exporting base for China.

It has its own research institute, design institute, quality inspection center and a postdoctoral research station, a large pool of experts and a renowned management team, which have developed a comprehensive research, manufacturing, and training system for technological innovations.

its main products are bulk drugs, pharmaceutical intermediates and preparations, including antibiotics, vitamins, cardio-cerebral-vascular drugs, digestive aids, and antiviral, natural, analgesic-antipyretic, AIDS, anesthetic, and birth-control drugs, as well as health protection medicines and diagnostic reagents, which sell in more than 100 countries and regions.

The company has 351 preparations with national approval and 244 medicines with a Class A or Class B listing in the National Drug Catalogue of Basic Medical Insurance, Employment Injury Insurance and Maternity Insurance, with 123 medicines awaiting national approval, and total assets of 7.63 billion yuan.

Its management and quality control allow the company to have complete-process controls in purchasing, manufacturing, warehousing, transporting and marketing And is products meet EP8 and USP36 standards and have GMP and GSP certification and QMS ISO9001:2008, EMS ISO14001:2004 and OHSMS GB/T28001-2011 certification.

For its future development, the company is concentrating on breakthroughs in chemical pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, and medical commerce and health care services to build a giant pharmaceutical group with Chinese leadership and an international reputation.