China to further optimize industrial chain for pharmaceutical sector2022-09-15
China will shore up weak links in the industrial chain for the pharmaceutical sector, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Wednesday.

China to further improve baby formula traceability system2022-09-15
China will continue to improve the traceability system of baby formula to cover more producers, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Wednesday.

AstraZeneca plans great leaps in respiratory medicine in China2022-08-16
Global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca will introduce a batch of innovative drugs into China by 2025 for the treatment of respiratory diseases, such as severe asthma, chronic cough and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to Lin Xiao, vice-president of the company's China branch.

Sinopharm has the Rx to realize high-quality development2022-08-16
China National Pharmaceutical Group, also known as Sinopharm, will step up efforts in innovation to propel high-quality development that is featured by further improvements in industrial, supply and value chains, according to senior company executives on Monday.

Domestically developed drug joins virus battle2022-08-13
China's first domestically developed COVID-19 antiviral, approved by the top drug regulator last month and added to the national COVID-19 treatment protocol this week, has been shipped to regions coping with virus flare-ups, according to drug developers.

Sinovac launches clinical trial for Omicron-specific vaccine2022-07-05
Sinovac on Monday kicked off a clinical trial in Hong Kong to assess the safety and immunogenicity of its Omicron-specific COVID-19 inactivated vaccine, which is intended to be used as a booster shot for healthy adults.

Ningxia dairy producer breaks global records2022-06-28
Wuzhong, a city irrigated by the Yellow River in the hinterlands of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, is rich with resources that have built one of the world's most productive dairy firms.

China's dairy output up 2.9 pct in May2022-06-27
The output of China's major dairy companies rose 2.9 percent year on year in May, bucking the trend of decline in April, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

China harvests first batch of self-bred deep-sea Atlantic salmons2022-06-17
About 15,000 Atlantic salmons in the net cage of a fully submersible deep-sea fish farming equipment were fished during the period from May 22 to June 9, which marks China's first successful harvest of self-bred deep-sea Atlantic salmons.

Pharmas lauded for aiding global pandemic fight2022-06-13
On May 12, Chinese bio-pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech began building a vaccine factory in Quilicura, Chile, with a designated annual production capacity of 50 million doses.

Chinese-made Omicron vaccine trials get going2022-05-03
China began clinical trials for a vaccine designed specifically against the Omicron variant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Sunday, making it the first vaccine of its kind to enter human trials in the world against the highly transmissible COVID-19 strain.

China's food industry posts steady growth in production, sales in Q12022-05-01
China's food industry saw stable expansion in terms of production and sales in the first quarter (Q1) of the year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed.

TCM proves effective in treatment of elderly COVID patients2022-04-28
Traditional Chinese medicine is playing an effective role in treating elderly COVID-19 patients in Shanghai by helping to prevent their cases from becoming severe and by reducing mortality, experts said.

Vaccines against Omicron approved for clinical trials2022-04-27
Two homegrown Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by Sinopharm and Sinovac Biotech have been approved for clinical trials by China's top drug regulator, the two companies said on Tuesday.