The National Engineering Technology Research Center for Chinese Patent Medicines (hereinafter referred to as the Center) is a national engineering center approved by the State Science and Technology Commission 1994 and officially accepted by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 200 1. Established by Shenyang Pharmaceutical University and Benxi No.3 Pharmaceutical Factory (now Liaoning Benxi No.3 Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.), it is also the technical service center of enterprises in Liaoning Province. Up to now, there are four Chinese patent medicine engineering technology research centers approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the "center" is one of them and the only one in the three northeastern provinces. The center covers an area of 2 1000 square meters, with a building area of more than 8,000 square meters. The center currently has 45 employees (including 38 full-time employees and 7 visiting researchers), 30 with bachelor degree or above, including 6 doctors, 2 masters and 0/8 senior engineers. The research direction of "Center" is to face the modernization and internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine, and carry out modern, automated and integrated engineering technology research around key technical issues such as quality standards of traditional Chinese medicine, extraction and purification technology and preparation technology.
Center "Center" has six laboratories with advanced facilities, including basic research laboratory, engineering laboratory, dosage form laboratory, quality testing laboratory and natural medicine laboratory, and a solid preparation pilot plant meeting GMP standards, and has domestic first-class equipment for extraction, separation, purification and preparation of traditional Chinese medicine and large-scale testing instruments. Around the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, more than a dozen domestic leading research and development achievements have been developed, such as direct preparation technology of traditional Chinese medicine extract powder, broad-spectrum spray drying technology, efficient one-step granulation technology, moisture-proof technology of traditional Chinese medicine preparation, β-CD inclusion technology, pellet coating, film coating and particle coating technology.
The "Center" has initially formed a new R&D Chinese patent medicine base integrating Chinese patent medicine research, engineering technology development, personnel training, technical services and achievements transformation. At present, it has become a distribution center and radiation source for the research and transformation of modern Chinese medicine engineering technology.