The first Chinese pharmaceutical company to set up joint ventures with foreign companies
The pharmaceutical company with the most successful joint ventures
The pharmaceutical company with the most numerous joint ventures

Ms. Tran Thi Trung Chien, Minister of Ministry of Health,Vietnam, and Mr. Qi Jianguo, Ambassador of China to Vietnam, attending the Groundbreaking Ceremony of Vietnam-China Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.
Since China's reform and opening up, SINOPHARM's affiliated companies have launched extensive international cooperation with key international pharmaceutical companies. Advanced technology, capital and management experience have been introduced into China and more than twenty joint venture companies were born out of the cooperation. SINOPHARM's global trading and cooperation network spans more than 100 countries of the world with a total import and export volume of USD 450 million in 2003.