Construction of a pharmaceutical industrial park was launched in the Urumqi high-tech Industrial Zone on Oct 16.

The industrial park, an outcome of cooperation between Urumqi and Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co, is Urumqi’s major construction project this year.

It will occupy an area of 5.73 hectares with an investment of 250 million yuan ($37 million). 

The park will be a comprehensive body which integrates modern medicine logistics, an e-commerce entrepreneurship and incubating platform, herbal medicine processing and trade.

The park will help raise the annual governmental tax revenue by 60 million yuan ($9 million) and create over a thousand jobs.

“The project can not only extend Urumqi’s medicine industrial chain but also create a demonstration zone for the modernization and informationization of modern medicine logistics,” said Liu Chengyuan, deputy mayor of Urumqi.

He added that governments at all levels should go all out to support the construction of the project and construction organizations should strictly meet the construction demands and finish them with high efficiency and quality.

Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co is China’s biggest private pharmaceutical distribution enterprise with 18-years’ experience in the businesses of medicine distribution, hospital marketing and wholesale marketing of medical instruments and herbal medicine.

Urumqi is cooperating with Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co to build a pharmaceutical industrial park in the Urumqi high-tech industrial zone. [www.uhdz.gov.cn]

The ground-breaking ceremony for the pharmaceutical industrial park in the Urumqi high-tech industrial zone. [www.uhdz.gov.cn]

Officials at the opening ceremony for construction of a pharmaceutical industrial park in the Urumqi high-tech industrial zone. [www.uhdz.gov.cn]

By Qiu Guizhen and edited by Peter Nordinger