A hundred years of magnificent history, there are other worlds to change the world

In 1937, the Japanese invaders set foot on the land of China, and the war began to smoke.

The Japanese army's three-light policy of "killing all, grabbing all and burning all" almost swept the major national industries and commerce.

Drugs were in greatest demand during the war. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry is self-evident, and the eyes of the Japanese army will naturally not let go of the national pharmaceutical industry in its embryonic stage.

In the early days of the war of Resistance, the Japanese artillery almost blew up the entire national pharmaceutical industry.

The wildfire burns endlessly, the spring breeze blows again.

The soaring price of drugs has naturally attracted speculative capital from all walks of life in order to hoard for profit.

With the help of capital, the pharmaceutical industry quickly recovered. Some well-equipped pharmaceutical factories began to research and produce chemical apis, such as glucose for injection and various sulfonamide antibiotics.

On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and the eight years of Anti-Japanese War finally brought peace.

The heroic singing of "Returning Home in Triumph" resounded throughout the land of China.

All walks of life are gearing up to do a great job and relieve eight years of oppression.

However, for the national pharmaceutical industry, the bigger test is still to come.

The Pacific War came to an abrupt end with the rapid defeat of Japan. The military medicine stockpiled by the US-led Allies had no use for it and had to be piled up in ports in the Far East.

The exquisite self-interest of capitalism is aimed at China, which is still in a state of ruin.

Surplus military drugs flooded into the Chinese pharmaceutical market, and domestic bureaucratic capital also took the opportunity to fan the fire, advocating the import of Western drugs, at one point 80% of the drugs on the market were imported.

In today's terms, this is naked dumping.

At the time, however, China was unable to anti-dumping.

Unable to compete, the national pharmaceutical companies are rapidly declining and closing down one after another. More than 70% of national pharmaceutical companies have been removed from the list, leaving less than 200 pharmaceutical factories, and survivors can only be at a semi-standstill.

The Chinese pharmaceutical industry, which survived the war of resistance, was hit hard by Allied dumping.

At this time, the medical community realized that living to death can be more tenacious, even if the road ahead is full of difficulties and dangers, have the confidence to get out of the trough, and have the courage to move forward fearlessly, is the real fighter.

4. Self-reliance and self-sufficiency

In 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded, the mountains and rivers were rebuilt, and the national industry beat the waters and the waves stopped the flying boats, but it was blocked by Western imperialism.

The greatest "achievement" of the Western imperialist policy of blockade and embargo is to force the new China to establish a complete, systematic, comprehensive and independent industrial system.

This is one of the important roots of the formation of the new China's independent, self-reliant and self-sufficient industrial system and economic development strategy, and the re-formal start of China's pharmaceutical industry is in this context.

After the devastation of the war and the dumping of the Allies, the lack of medicine is the true portrayal of the new China when it was founded.

Raw material shortage, backward technology, outdated equipment, weak foundation...

At this time of new China, medicine is more expensive than gold, and a medicine is difficult to find, folk spread: gold has a price and a drug is priceless.

It is with this wisdom and confidence that the Chinese pharmaceutical industry has launched a national plan.

In 1950, the National Pharmaceutical industry professional conference established the policy: "The development of raw materials, preparations as a supplement", the research and development of antibiotics, sulfonamides and other epidemic drugs as a focus.

"Self-reliance, hard work" has always been the glorious tradition of the Communist Party, with the transformation of enemy and counterfeit pharmaceutical factories, dilapidated factories, only three years of economic recovery period will produce more than 90 major chemical raw materials, the annual output of 99 tons.

We are familiar with the story: Shanghai Pharmaceutical factory auto repair plant trial produced the first batch of crystalline penicillin, the cradle of the chemical pharmaceutical industry, Northeast pharmaceutical produced a batch of rodenticides, insecticides and drinking water disinfectants such as 66, Qingshuilong... Set up one monument after another for later pharmaceutical people.

In 1953, with the beginning of the "First Five-Year Plan", the focus of pharmaceutical industry construction was shifted to antibiotics, chemical synthetic special drugs and related chemical intermediates.

Once the largest antibiotic production factory in Asia - North China Pharmaceutical Factory was completed and put into operation, completely ending the history of penicillin and streptomycin in China's dependence on imports.