To open a pharmacy, you need a drug business license, a medical device business license, a business license, a tax registration certificate, a hygiene license, a health certificate, and GSP certification. If the pharmacy you operate contains health food, you also need to apply to the Drug Administration for a Health Food Business License.

1. Pharmaceutical Trading License

To apply for the establishment of a pharmaceutical trading entity, an application shall be submitted to the pharmaceutical supervisory and administrative department of the people's government of the province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government where it is located, and the pharmaceutical supervisory and administrative department of the people's government of the province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government shall submit it to the Food and Drug Administration for examination and approval after preliminary examination.

2. Medical device business license

is a necessary document for medical device business enterprises. To start a second type of medical device business enterprise, it shall be filed with the pharmaceutical supervisory and administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.

3. Business license

is a certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in a certain production and business activities.

4. The tax registration certificate

is a registration certificate issued by a taxpayer engaged in production or business operation when applying for tax registration with the competent tax authorities in the place where the production or business operation or tax obligation occurs.

5. Hygiene license

refers to the hygiene license certificate issued by units and individuals engaged in food production and business activities of restaurants after examination and approval by the health administrative department, with the license number for registration.

6. GSP certification

is the abbreviation of English Good Supply Practice, which means product supply specification. It is a set of management procedures to control all factors that may cause quality accidents in the circulation of medical commodities, so as to prevent quality accidents.

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia -GSP