The newly-built National Engineering Research Center for New Compound Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Beijing Tongrentang Research Institute are one of the first four national engineering centers in the field of traditional Chinese medicine approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, and they are models of organic combination of scientific research institutions and enterprises. It is jointly established by Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Tongrentang (Group) Co., Ltd., Beijing Huayu Anran Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. and Harbin Cihang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., focusing on the research and development of new compound Chinese medicine. In order to further integrate the internal and external scientific and technological resources of enterprises, give full play to the advantages of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Beijing in scientific research, medical care and talents, and the influence of Tongrentang in brand and market, Tongrentang, with the full promotion of Beijing, established the Beijing Tongrentang Research Institute, which consists of two research institutes, a postdoctoral workstation and an engineering center, and established the scientific and technological innovation system of Tongrentang Group. It has realized the effective docking of scientific and technological resources of traditional Chinese medicine and industrial capital in Beijing. It will be driven by scientific research, market-oriented and enterprise-based, and develop, research and innovate to form a complete R&D system in which scientific research results are transformed into products.
Tongrentang Research Institute has a total investment of 1 100 million yuan and a construction area of10.6 million square meters. The main research building has four floors, one of which is Tongrentang Pilot Workshop (multi-dose trial production center). On the second floor is the Pharmacy Department and Postdoctoral Research Center of Tongrentang Research Institute; The third floor is the National Engineering Research Center for New Chinese Medicine (Compound) Development (Beijing Zhongyan Tongrentang Pharmaceutical R&D Co., Ltd.), including modern phytochemistry laboratory, general preparation laboratory, transdermal drug delivery laboratory, instrument analysis room and pharmacology laboratory; The fourth floor is an experimental animal room, a new drug clinical laboratory, a Chinese medicine research and development information laboratory, a training center, a conference room and an academic lecture hall designed according to GLP requirements.