Sinopharm (company)

This article is about the pharmaceutical company. For the COVID-19 vaccine that it developed, see Sinopharm BIBP COVID-19 vaccine.

For other uses, see Sinopharm (disambiguation).

"Sinopharm" redirects here. Not to be confused with Sinovac Biotech.

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China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation

Headquarters
Trade name	Sinopharm
Company type	State-owned enterprise
Industry	Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Founded	November 26, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-11-26)
Headquarters	20 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing , China
Area served	China, exported worldwide
Key people	Liu Jingzhen (chairman & Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary)[1][2]
Products	Pharmaceutical drugs vaccines
Revenue	US$ 96.1 billion (2023)[3]
Net income	US$ 1.1 billion (2023)[3]
Total assets	US$ 82.8 billion (2023)[3]
Owner	Chinese central government (100%)
Number of employees	202,426 (2023)[3]
Subsidiaries	Sinopharm Industrial Investment (51%) → Sinopharm Group (56.79%) Trad. Chinese Medicine (37.59%) Shyndec Pharma. (41.62%) China National Biotec Group (95%) → Tiantan Biological (53.30%)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	中国医药集团总公司
Traditional Chinese	中國醫藥集團總公司
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó yīyào jítuán zǒng gōngsī
short Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	国药集团
Traditional Chinese	國藥集團
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guóyào jítuán
Footnotes / references in a consolidated basis; equity and profit excluded minority interests; in Chinese Accounting Standards[4]

China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (CNPGC), commonly referred to as Sinopharm, is a Chinese state-owned enterprise. The corporation was the indirect major shareholder of publicly traded companies Sinopharm Group (SEHK: 1099, via a 51–49 joint venture, Sinopharm Industrial Investment, with Fosun Pharmaceutical), China Traditional Chinese Medicine [zh] (SEHK: 570, mostly via Sinopharm Group Hongkong Co., Ltd.),^[5] Shanghai Shyndec Pharmaceutical (SSE: 600420, via a wholly owned research institute based in Shanghai), and Beijing Tiantan Biological Products (SSE: 600161, via China National Biotec Group).

China National Pharmaceutical Group was supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.^[6]

Sinopharm was ranked 109th in the 2021 Fortune Global 500 list.^[7]

History

Sinopharm was founded as China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (Chinese: 中国医药集团总公司) on November 26, 1998, as a holding company for China National Pharmaceutical Corporation, China National Pharmaceutical Industry Corporation (Chinese: 中国医药工业公司), China National Pharmaceutical Foreign Trade Corp. (Chinese: 中国医药对外贸易公司) and China National Medical Device (Chinese: 中国医疗器械工业公司). In 2009 it was merged with China National Biotec Group (Chinese: 中国生物技术集团公司).^{[citation needed]}

Its subsidiary Wuhan Institute of Biological Products was fined for selling 400,520 ineffective DPT vaccines in November 2017.^[8]

Pfizer announced the signing of a cooperation pact with Sinopharm Group in April 2023, with plans to seep approval for 12 drugs in China through 2025.^[9]

COVID-19 vaccines

Main articles: Sinopharm BIBP COVID-19 vaccine, Sinopharm WIBP COVID-19 vaccine, and Sinopharm CNBG COVID-19 vaccine

The Sinopharm BIBP COVID-19 vaccine, also known as BBIBP-CorV,^[10] the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine,^[11] or BIBP vaccine,^[11][12][13] is one of two inactivated virus COVID-19 vaccines developed by Sinopharm. It completed Phase III trials in Argentina, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with over 60,000 participants.^[14] BBIBP-CorV shares similar technology with CoronaVac and BBV152, other inactivated virus vaccines for COVID-19.^[15]

Peer-reviewed results published in JAMA of Phase III trials in United Arab Emirates and Bahrain showed BBIBP-CorV 78.1% effective against symptomatic cases and 100% against severe cases (21 cases in vaccinated group vs. 95 cases in placebo group).^[16] In December 2020, the UAE previously announced interim results showing 86% efficacy.^[17] While mRNA vaccines like the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and mRNA-1273 showed higher efficacy of over 90%, those present distribution challenges for some nations as they require deep-freeze facilities and trucks. BIBP-CorV could be transported and stored at normal refrigerated temperatures.^[18]

BBIBP-CorV is being used in vaccination campaigns by certain countries in Asia,^[19][20][21] Africa,^[22][23][24] South America,^[25][26][27] and Europe.^[28][29][30] Sinopharm expects to produce one billion doses of BBIBP-CorV in 2021.^[31] On 7 May 2021, the World Health Organization approved the vaccine for emergency use^[32] and Sinopharm later signed purchase agreements for 170 million doses from COVAX.^[33]

The similarly named Sinopharm WIBP COVID-19 vaccine is also an inactivated virus vaccine.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• CanSino Biologics
• Sinovac

References

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External links

• Official website