Zhejiang Medicines and Health Products Import and Export Co. ltd (hereinafter briefly called ZMC) is a professional foreign trade company at provincial level, founded in June, 1999 on the basis of former Zhejiang Medicines and Health products Import and Export Corporation restructured as a unit. ZMC belongs to Zhejiang International Business Group Co., Ltd (hereinafter briefly called ZIB), which is the major shareholder of ZMC and controlled in fact by Zhejiang State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission .By the end of August, 2012, the registered capital of ZMC is RMB 80 million, staff member of 293, total asset of RMB 1.08 billion and net asset of RMB 287 million, respectively.
Ever since the restructuring, all staffs of ZMC work together with one heart .In the team spirit of“ putting people in the foremost place , keeping on forging ahead” and through the adoption of a series of measures in property right reform, incentive mechanism innovation, regulatory management improvement, business scope expansion ZMC has achieved a stable development over a decade featured with a multi-winning pattern of a year-on-year expansion of business scale ,solid increase of economic results and effects, consecutive value addition to the stated-owned asset and an apparent income growth for the staff members. The running mechanisms of clear property right, independent operation, self-responsible for losses and gains, self development and discipline are now in place.
ZMC handles the import and export and wholesale businesses for the commodities of the following categories: Western Medicines, such as Pharmaceutical Raw Materials and Intermediates ,Western Medicines and Biochemical Products; Medical Instruments including hospital diagnostic Devises, Pharmaceutical Machinery, Surgical and Dressing Materials, Disposable Supplies and Medical Textiles; Traditional Chinese Medicines including Chinese Medicinal Materials , Prepared Slices of Chinese Crude Drugs and Chinese Patent Medicines, Foodstuffs and Ingredients; Nutrition and Health Food including Plant and Animate Extracts, Health Products, Dietary Supplements ,Foodstuff and Feed Additives; Fine Chemicals including Agrochemicals, Dyestuffs and Pigments, Chemical Auxiliaries and Additives, Basic (Bulk) Chemicals, Special and Custom Synthesis.
ZMC has been improving constantly its management systems and standardizing business operational procedures so as to raise the quality of service and the products handled. In early 2001 ZMC had ISO9001:2000 quality system certified, obtained GSP Certificate, business licenses for medicines, medical instruments and dangerous chemicals as well as foreign licenses for some of our export products, laying a solid foundation for business development. The business philosophy of “attach great importance to contract, abide by commercial integrity, raise work efficiency and dedicatedly provide our customers with premium service” has taken root in the minds of all the staffs, and the performance of which has gained a good corporate image for ZMC.
Through years of hardworking, ZMC has set up a long-term and close cooperative relationship with many companies at home and our products are sold to over 100 countries around the globe. In recent years, according to the needs of our business development, extension of supply chain and strategic objectives, ZMC has invested in over 10 related manufactures in the form of share holding or share purchasing, thus boosting the marketing abroad for the related export products.
ZMC has, guided by the plan of ZIB along with its own features, determined the general development route to be followed with the efforts for the implementation of “shifts from three perspectives”: First, shift towards the export of high –end chemical and pharmaceutical products. Efforts will be focused on the structure adjustment for the export product, expanding market and enlarging our main business of export so as to shape our company’s comparative and competitive advantages. While consolidating and expanding the export of pharmaceutical raw materials and fine chemicals we will enhance the export magnitude on high value added products of Chinese and Western Finished Drugs, Bio and Biochemical Products , medical instruments, traditional Chinese medicinal materials, Chinese medicinal decoction pieces, extracts taken from animals and plants and health food;. Second, shift towards the combination of import and export and the simultaneous handling of domestic and foreign businesses. We will explore domestic business by using our import and export resources available. Third, shift towards the integration of production, supply and sales. We will make further industrial investments based on our viable financial strength and the export needs, and gradually raise the purchasing portion for export from our invested companies. At the same time, we will make it an important item on our agenda in cultivating famous export products and brands that will uplift our core competitiveness.
ZMC will make further efforts and keep on forging ahead under the guidance of core value of development with scientific outlook and “putting people in the foremost place”, and on the basis of making the existing business strong and large, energetically develop new products ,open up new market, adopt creative ideas for a coordinated development among our import and export , domestic business and industrial investments , and our company the leading exporter in the line of Zhejiang chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries.
