Visit to Tongretang

Today we had our last field trip to Tongretang, a more traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical company. It was interesting to compare and contrast between Tasly, the more modern TCM company. We first took a quick tour of the facilities. We saw the quality control area, the medicine preparation areas, the packaging facilities, and the warehouse. It was a good tour.

The group in the Tongretang lobby

Then we had a quick introduction to the company from one of the workers followed by a video about the company. This was very interesting. Tongretang is a very old company, about 340 years old. It was orginally started as a supplier of TCM for the royal family of China and evolved with the surroundings to become the TCM factory that it is today. It was awesome to be in a place that was so deep in history. After the video we had a quick question and answer session and then we all had a chance to sign the Tongretang guest book. It was a very nice field trip and we were all very grateful.

Manas signing the Tongretang guest book

Zai jian!