Background Information

In recent years, the scale of China's pharmaceutical market has grown rapidly, and there is an ever growing demand for quality medicines. The release of many pharmaceutical industry policies and regulations, as well as the continuous innovation and progress of pharmaceutical engineering technology have provided a solid guarantee for the healthy development of the Chinese pharmaceutical market and the improvement of pharmaceutical quality. However, under the circumstance that the country's enhances the management and control over the safety and quality of medicine, regulation over generic drugs becomes increasingly strict, drug approval procedure has been accelerated, renewal cycle has been shortened, and profit margin has kept shrinking, China's pharmaceutical industry is in urgent need of transformation and upgrading, and actively pursuing pharmaceutical technology innovation practices. The pharmaceutical industry is vigorously developing new pharmaceutical preparations; Change the status quo of high pollution, high energy consumption and low added value in the pharmaceutical industry; Actively promote the in-depth integration of informatization and pharmaceutical industrialization, and strive to improve the quality and efficiency of the pharmaceutical industry; Continuously explore pharmaceutical equipment upgrades and launching into applications; Get in-depth understanding and make practice of pharmaceutical engineering project construction process, pharmaceutical project management, practice risk management, and upgrade of pharmaceutical technology; Cultivate professional technical personnel; Getting in-depth understanding of domestic and foreign regulations such as GMP has become a key measure for the transformation and development of China's pharmaceutical industry.

In this context, the authoritative high-end brand conference in the field of pharmaceutical engineering - " The 10th Vogel Pharmaceutical Engineering International Forum 2018 and the 15^th Anniversary Celebration of Pharma•TEC China" is scheduled to be held in Jinan Shandong Hotel from September 17 to September 19. This forum is sponsored by Vogel Industry Media which is a joint-venture company of Germany Vogel Business Media Group and China Machinery Information Institute and Publication (China Machine Press),and Jinan Innovation Zone Management Committee. It is co-organized by Tasly Group, Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and Jinan High-tech Business Incubator (JNBI). The forum will be held in the form of a main forum and six sub-forums for facing the field of sterile preparations, solid preparations, biological drugs, botanical drugs, smart manufacturing and downstream packaging, as well as environmental protection, discussing the hot topics such as policy and regulation, generic drug quality consistency evaluation, Pharmaceutical engineering design and management, pharmaceutical production technology, control strategy, modern Chinese medicine production engineering, quality management system, enterprise quality system, pharmaceutical GMP, etc., and the drug supervision department, Chinese and foreign experts and representatives of well-known enterprises will be invited to give a wonderful speech and discussion. The forum will also invite senior executives from pharmaceutical enterprises and pharmaceutical equipment enterprises, pharmaceutical GMP implementers, and officials from the pharmaceutical regulatory department to attend the conference to jointly discuss the latest policies of the pharmaceutical industry and the advanced concepts of international pharmaceutical engineering, share the current innovative applications of China and foreign latest core process equipment, explore the source and power of innovation in pharmaceutical technology and equipment manufacturing. At the same time, On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of its founding and the 10th anniversary of the Vogel Pharmaceutical Engineering International Forum, Pharma•TEC China will host the " The 15^th Anniversary Celebration and Pharmaceutical Industry Awards Ceremony"

The Vogel Pharmaceutical Engineering International Forum will be held for 10 consecutive years from its first establishment in 2009 to September 17 this year. Over the past 10 years, Vogel Pharmaceutical Engineering International Forum not only has witnessed the development of China's pharmaceutical engineering, but also has grown into the annual grand gathering of China's and even the world’s pharmaceutical industry with the development of China's pharmaceutical industry. The Vogel Pharmaceutical Engineering International Forum has always upheld its original aspiration and keeps forging ahead, and is committed to the mission of making media communication in China's pharmaceutical industry powerful and prosperous.: Summarize and pass on the latest innovative ideas and practices of industry experts at home and abroad; Sharing advanced technologies and successful cases in the design, operation, verification, management, and production process technology optimization and quality control of pharmaceutical engineering projects, etc.; Explore the road of transformation and upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry; Have made new contributions to strengthening the close integration of medical research and production, promoting the research and development of new medical products, new technologies and new equipment, publicizing and implementing the relevant national medical guidelines and policies, promoting the innovation and sustainable development of pharmaceutical engineering technology, and accelerating the improvement of China's pharmaceutical industry.

Founded in 1996, Vogel Industry Media is a joint-venture company of Germany Vogel Media Group and China Machinery Information Institute & publication with more than 60 years of heavy cultural heritage, which is one of the world top 500 media publishers. Now, Vogel China has owned many professional marketing communication service brands, including MM China, Automobile Industry China (AI), PROCESS China(PS), PharmaTEC China (PHT), FoodTEC China (FT) , LaborPraxis China (LP), Plastics Technology China (PT), Brewing and Beverage Industry China (BBI), etc. Besides, based on the professional industry segmentation from 5-billion reader database, it creates the unique paper  media (a magazine is published on average every two working days), digital media, conference activities and services in the integration of full media platform.

China Machinery Information Institute and Publication (China Machine Press) was founded in 1952.With 65-year development, it has become a comprehensive large-scale information platform which integrates research, publishing, training, printing and distribution. As a full-range supplier of multimedia options including print, online and audio-visual media, our major business also contains book publishing, periodical publication, information consultation and book distribution, which make us become the largest information consultancy in China industry sector and one of the largest comprehensive science and technology publisher in China.

Founded in 1891, Vogel Business Media is a world-wide famous publishing company. Vogel is currently one of the largest industry technical media groups in the world. It publishes over 100 B2B magazines and books all over the world in the range of mechanics, automobile, chemical industry, computer, communication and management industry. Vogel has 28 branches, including joint venture and cooperation. Its market spreads more than 20 countries in Asia, America and Europe, etc..

Founded in 1928 (as Gardner Publications, Inc.) in Cincinnati, Ohio . Gardner Business Media is the premier publisher for the heart of manufacturing in North America – providing unique, one-of-a-kind, relevant information of keen interest to the people who power plants, shops, and factories. They provide clients with a variety of promotional services like publishing, website, consulting, and character event interview. Gardner Business Media started to work with Vogel industry media in 2006; they provide advanced manufacturing technologies from Europe and America to Chinese readers by the resources of MMS-Modern Machine Shop, MMT-MoldMaking Technology and Plastics Technology.

Pharmaceutical Industry takes the manufacture requirement of pharmaceutical industry as the starting point to share advanced technology and successful cases in these areas of design, operation, verification, management, process optimization of production process and quality control of current domestic and international pharmaceutical engineering projects, enhance the overall level of local pharmaceutical industry and promote inter-international technological exchanges. With the years of experience in pharmaceutical industry, we have sheer confidence to create a new
brand in China’s pharmaceutical industry. The purpose of Pharmacy Industry is to“serve China’s pharmaceutical industry”, so as to serve the insiders more accurately with integrated resources and better fulfll the media mission.

Jinan Innovation Zone was the first batch of state-level high-tech zones approved by the State Council in March 1991. At present, it has formed five major districts with a total of 318 square kilometers in the central area, including the Central District, Gaoxin East District, Gaoxin North District, Zhangjin District and Innovation Valley Area. The total area is 318 square kilometers, with 5 sub-district offices and over 400,000 permanent residents.