杭州民生药厂创建于1926年。当时,国人自办西药厂者寥若晨星,民生药厂的兴起,引起医药界的极大关注,被誉为我国自办的四大西药厂之一,在国内和东南亚地区,都具有一定的影响。杭州解放时,“民生”是全市唯一保存下来的药厂,第一个五年计划期间已成为浙江省医药工业的骨干企业。1958年与浙江制药 Hangzhou Minsheng Pharmaceutical Factory was founded in 1926. At that time, the few people who run Western medicine factory owned by Morningstar and the rise of Minsheng Medicine Factory caused great concern of the pharmaceutical industry. It was praised as one of the four largest western pharmaceutical companies run by China and had certain influences both in China and in Southeast Asia. When Hangzhou was liberated, “Livelihood ” was the only preserved pharmaceutical factory in the city. During the first five-year plan, it became the backbone enterprise of Zhejiang’s pharmaceutical industry. 1958 and Zhejiang Pharmaceuticals