Pharmacy refers to the retail point of drugs. The first government-run pharmacy in the history of traditional Chinese medicine was born in the ninth year of Xining (AD 1076) and was approved by the famous reformer Wang Anshi.

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The first government-run pharmacy in the history of traditional Chinese medicine was born in the ninth year of Xining (AD 1076) and was approved by the famous reformer Wang Anshi. At that time, due to the internal division of the reformists, Wang Anshi decided to resign and retire from the mountains, and his beloved son Wang Wenying died young in, especially after a long illness.

When he left politics, he ordered people to set up the "Taiyi Bureau Cooked Medicine Institute" in Kaifeng, the capital, also known as the "drugstore". It can be said that it is the predecessor of modern Chinese medicine shops.

During Wang Anshi's political reform, natural disasters occurred many times in various places. Although he said that "death is nothing to fear", he was often deeply disturbed to see so many suffering patients. Especially when he learned that patients were short of medicine and some people took the opportunity to manufacture and sell counterfeit drugs, he had mixed feelings.

At this time, it was suggested to set up a special organization. On the one hand, various dosage forms of traditional Chinese medicine with certain specifications, such as pills, powders, ointments, pills, etc., should be developed and sold by national patents, and individuals or other departments are not allowed to manufacture them privately. On the one hand, when floods, droughts and plagues occur, medicines are distributed to the people. Wang Anshi was overjoyed and immediately adopted the opinion and organized a special person to implement it.