Pharmaceutical industry cluster

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the fields that enjoy the highest economic growth and the most vibrant development in Taizhou city, East China's Jiangsu province.

The sector's industrial scale continues to rank among the top among prefecture-level cities in China. Its products cover nine fields, including chemical raw materials, chemical preparations, proprietary Chinese medicine, biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical special equipment, medical auxiliary equipment, medical instruments and special medical food. The industry's comparative advantages lie in industrial agglomeration, market brands, independent innovation and talent.

It has three State-level corporate R&D centers, 52 provincial-level corporate R&D centers, 21 featured public service platforms and five cooperation platforms, with prestigious institutes and colleges.

In the pharma sector, Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has set up a national key laboratory for new technology in pharmaceutical preparations and a national enterprise technology center. Elsewhere, the Taizhou Medical High-tech Zone owns a vaccine engineering center, a safety evaluation center and provides a sharing service for large equipment and other featured public service platforms. The ICGEB-China Regional Research Center (International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology), DICP and other cooperation platforms with top universities and institutes has settled here.

Of these, the safety evaluation center is the first platform in China that can simultaneously carry out safety evaluations of GLP qualifications for human drugs, medical devices, special medical food and other products.

An aerial view of factories in Taizhou Medical High-tech Zone. [Photo/WeChat ID: tzfabu]