PITDC

The pharmaceutical industry, with its high levels of investment and value-added production, long periods of return and close integration with other technology-intensive industries, has found it difficult to focus on R&D, due to a lack of both funding and qualified personnel. With these problems in mind, the 4th National Science Council meeting in 1991 saw the ROC government set up the Pharmaceutical Industry Technology and Development Center (PITDC) with the aim of assisting the domestic pharmaceutical industry in upgrading all levels of its business. U-Liang Pharmaceuticals Company director Liu Chiu-Shen set out to raise NT 40 million dollars in donations from various industries and NT 20 million from the Industrial Development Bureau to establish the Pharmaceutical Industry Technology Development Center (PITDC). On January 15th, 1993, the Ministry of Economic Affairs approved the PITDC's establishment as a non-profit organization, and Mr. Liu was given the honor to serve as its first director. As director, Mr. Liu guided the PITDC in raising the quality of its products in the domestic market, and in improving and developing its manufacturing technology.