Buildings of Jilin Wantong Pharmacy Group Co in Tonghua, Jilin province [Photo/wtyy.com.cn]

Founded in November 1997, Jilin Wantong Pharmacy Group Co is a large modern company that integrates medicine production, research, and sales. Its headquarters is located in Tonghua, North China's Jilin province.

After 22 years of development, the group currently boasts multiple medicine, energy, wine, cosmetics, and bio-engineering businesses, with its medicine business being most successful.

Wantong Pharmacy ranks among China's top 100 medicine firms and is recognized as a national key high-tech enterprise, a national corporate technology center, and an outstanding private tech company in China.

Pan Shoude, chairman of Wantong Pharmacy, is also the founder of the company.

The company is committed to attracting talent and has invested 26 million yuan ($3.9 million) into building talent apartments. It has also worked with local higher education institutions in many talent cultivation programs.

Another focus of the group is charity. Since 1997, Wantong Pharmacy has donated 160 million yuan in drugs to people in need, and has paid 3 billion yuan in taxes.

The company has also decided to invest 150 -200 million yuan every year in new drug research to boost technological innovation in medicine.