Interview with David Yang, General Manager, Biogen Idec – China
You have been here in China for about a year. What were your assumptions about China before you arrived and were things more or less what you thought they would…
Yunnan Baiyao Group Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells Chinese pharmaceutical products in China and internationally. The company provides Yunnan Baiyao series of products, including powders, capsules, plasters, woundplasts, and aerosols for activating blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis, reducing swelling, and relieving pain, as well as to treat traumatic injuries, rheumatic paralysis, pains in bones, muscle aches, and cold injuries. It also offers phytobiological medicines in the forms of oral liquids, tablets, powders, flower-leave granules, and capsules; and health products consisting of toothpastes, itching-relieving and smoothing essential skin cares, shower and foot bath effervescent tablets, shoe disinfectant and deodorize aerosols, and first aid kits. In addition, the company provides medicines, such as paracetamol, aminophenazone, caffeine, and chlorphenamine maleate tablets, as well as oxytetracycline tablets and norfloxacin capsules. Yunnan Baiyao Group Co., Ltd. is based in Kunming, China.
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