1938 Ciba Company set up an office in Shanghai.
1979 Ciba-Cargill set up an office in Beijing.
1987 Beijing Novartis Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. was established (formerly Beijing Ciba-Jiaji Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
1990 Shanghai Novartis Animal Health Care Co., Ltd. was established (formerly Shanghai Ciba-Jiaji Livestock Health Care Co., Ltd.)
1997 Novartis China headquarters was established in Beijing.
Novartis China Talent Development Center was established in 2005.
Sandoz (Novartis Generic Drugs Division) entered China in 2006.
In 2006, Suzhou Novartis Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. laid the foundation stone in Changshu, Jiangsu.
Novartis (China) Biomedical Research Co., Ltd. was established in Shanghai in 2006.
In 2006, the original Beijing representative office of Kairong Vaccine was renamed Beijing representative office of Novartis Vaccine Company, and Novartis Vaccine landed in China.
In 2007, Sandoz acquired Zhongshan Pharmaceutical Factory and established a high-quality production base; Novartis (China) Biomedical Research Co., Ltd. started to operate in Zhangjiang Medicine Valley; The experimental building of Suzhou Novartis Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. was put into use.
In 2008, Novartis (China) Biomedical Research Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a permanent research base in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, and announced that it would carry out innovative cooperative research focusing on cancer with Shanghai Academy of Biomedical Sciences.