Xinhuanet Hangzhou, November 12th On November 11th, 2022 Zhejiang Chinese Herbal Medicine Expo and the 15th Pan ‘an Chinese Herbal Medicine Expo opened in Pan ‘an County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. Zhejiang is a big province of traditional medicine, known as the “treasure house of medicinal plants in Southeast China” and one of the key producing areas of Chinese herbal medicines in China. Pan ‘an, known as the “hometown of medicinal materials in China”, is a typical mountainous county in Zhejiang.
A survey by the team of “Focus on High-quality Development” of Xinhuanet found that the county took “traditional Chinese medicine” as the starting point, made good use of digital means, improved the layout of industrial chain, and made a good integration of “three industries” ….. and made unremitting efforts to promote the high-quality development of the industry, so that the medicinal incense in the depths of the mountains could float further and longer, and explored the “prescription” for enriching the people and strengthening the county.
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Pan ‘an, Zhejiang, Dapanshan National Nature Reserve, takes wild medicinal plant germplasm resources as the main protection object. Xinhuanet issued a photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Pan’ an County Committee
Digital “Helping Agriculture” and Creating a New Development Model
In Pan ‘an, “every household grows medicinal materials, and towns and villages smell medicinal incense”.
According to reports, there are 1219 species of wild medicinal plants in Pan ‘an County. Among the “Zhejiang Eight Flavors”, Pan ‘an accounts for five flavors, which is called “Pan Five Flavors”. Good basic conditions make Chinese herbal medicines a characteristic and advantageous industry in Pan ‘an.
The annual planting area of medicinal materials in Pan ‘an County is 80,000 mu, with an annual output of 21,000 tons, accounting for 8.7% of Zhejiang Province, with an annual output value of more than 600 million yuan. There are 48,000 Chinese herbal medicine growers and 68,000 employees in the county, accounting for about one third of the total population.
“Although Pan ‘an drug farmers have planted medicinal materials from generation to generation, the methods have changed a lot.” According to Yang Dingsheng, president of Pan ‘an Chinese Herbal Medicine Industry Association, digital technology is the best “helper” for the change of planting methods. Walking into the planting base of Chinese herbal medicines in Pan ‘an County, information and digital means can be seen everywhere, such as the supervision of fertilizer use behavior of 5G high-altitude goggles, environmental soil detectors, insect forecasting instruments and so on. Zheng Wenliang, a drug farmer, said: “In the past, growing drugs depended on experience, but now it depends on technology.”
“We are using digital means and modern agricultural whole-process service system to trace the whole life cycle of Chinese herbal medicines.” The relevant person in charge of Zhejiang Supply and Marketing Co., Ltd. said that the subordinate enterprises of Zhejiang Supply and Marketing Co., Ltd. have carried out pilot projects for the development of the whole industrial chain on products such as Pan ‘an Fritillaria and Yuanhu.
In 2021, Pan ‘an reshaped the ecological planting mechanism of local Chinese herbal medicines through data collection, storage, linking, standardization and structuring, which reduced the use of pesticides and fertilizers by more than 60% and increased the effective components of Chinese herbal medicines by more than 15%.
It is understood that Zhejiang Bawei Medicinal Materials Market is the largest distribution center of Chinese medicinal materials with the most complete facilities and facilities in the Yangtze River Delta region. The market has developed an online trading module for matching medicinal materials transactions, providing third-party services for the release, trading and related value-added information of Chinese medicinal materials.
Under the “watering” of digital technology, Pan ‘an Chinese herbal medicine has opened up a new path of “planting in the ground, growing in the cloud and selling on the Internet”, which has opened up a new channel for drug dealers to grow and sell drugs.
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Zhejiang bawei specialty market. Xinhuanet issued a photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Pan’ an County Committee
Platform blessing, stimulate new kinetic energy of the industry
In Zhejiang, the high-quality development and construction of the demonstration zone of common prosperity, mountainous counties are the breakthrough and key point, while the development of mountainous counties and industries is the “ballast stone”.
In recent years, Pan ‘an adheres to the high-quality development of Chinese herbal medicine industry as the main line, and accelerates the revitalization and development of Chinese herbal medicine industry. It has successively issued the Plan for the Revitalization and Development of Chinese herbal medicine industry and the Five-year Action Plan for the Revitalization and Development of Chinese herbal medicine industry, and issued the Opinions on Accelerating the Support for the Revitalization and Development of Chinese herbal medicine industry, set up special funds, and continuously increased industrial support.
At the same time, taking Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Town as the main platform, Pan ‘an has built a 1,000-acre Chinese medicine industrial park and a Chinese medicine health industry incubator, and introduced and cultivated pharmaceutical companies such as Kang Enbei Group, Zhejiang Yifang Pharmaceutical and Dasheng Pharmaceutical. “Pan’ an has initially formed a Chinese medicine manufacturing industrial system integrating Chinese medicine decoction pieces, formula granules, Chinese patent medicines and health care products, realizing the transformation and upgrading from single Chinese medicine planting to extended processing and value-added.” Lv Jianjun, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xinwu Sub-district Office in Pan ‘an County and director of the New Town Development and Construction Center, said.
Zhejiang Dasheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a modern and innovative Chinese medicine enterprise integrating planting, research and development, production, sales and tourism services. It is the first pharmaceutical company to settle in Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Town. It has built a 50,000-square-meter modern Chinese herbal medicine deep processing factory, with five production lines, including Chinese herbal medicine decoction pieces, biological fermentation, automatic Chinese herbal medicine extraction, full-dosage health food and intelligent cultivation of Cordyceps sinensis, and the whole factory’s industrial tourism tour line.
Recently, the project of “Nano-industrialization Development of Supercritical Chinese Herbal Medicine and Intelligent Manufacturing of High-end Equipment” with a total investment of 3.6 billion yuan was signed and settled in Pan ‘an. The project includes the construction of pesticide residue removal and nano-processing of Chinese herbal medicines, intelligent manufacturing of supercritical high-end equipment, and characteristic nano-high-end tonic production line. After the project is put into production, the annual output value will reach 3.5 billion yuan, and the tax revenue is expected to exceed 100 million yuan. This is one of the examples of Pan ‘an extending the industrial chain of Chinese herbal medicines to high-end processing.
In March this year, the TCM Health Industry Incubation Park was completed and accepted. At present, it has settled in 8 characteristic Chinese medicine enterprises such as Qingquan Biotechnology and Tianjing Medicinal Materials, with an estimated annual output value of over 50 million yuan. Lv Jianjun said that the Incubation Park is dominated by start-up enterprises, focusing on the development of Chinese herbal pieces, proprietary Chinese medicines, Chinese medicine health food, Chinese medicine daily use, Chinese medicine medical devices and other industries, and striving to build it into an important manufacturing base of Chinese medicine industry in central Zhejiang.
It is reported that there are currently 249 Chinese medicine production enterprises in Pan ‘an, including 3 regulated enterprises, 5 high-tech enterprises and 7 enterprises that have passed GMP certification of Chinese herbal pieces.
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Aerial photography of Jiangnan Medicine Town. Xinhuanet issued a photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Pan’ an County Committee
Blending “Flowering” to Draw a Good Picture of Medicine Town
Jiangnan Medicine Town, located in Pan ‘an New Town, is a characteristic town relying on Chinese herbal medicine industry. According to Dong Yu, deputy head of Pan ‘an County, Jiangnan Medicine Town is an industrial platform for Pan ‘an Chinese herbal medicines to leap from extensive to intensive and from primary to advanced. After seven years’ development, Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Town has gradually transformed Pan ‘an’s natural resources into economic resources, accelerated the high-quality integrated development of the whole industrial chain of “one, two, three productions”, built a tens of billions of Chinese medicine health industrial clusters, and made the “flowers of integration” bloom in Pan ‘an mountainous area.
Experience a deep sleep with a Chinese herbal medicine pillow, eat a famous local chef to cook medicinal food, and buy Chinese medicine products as a gift in the hotel … In July this year, the first Chinese medicine culture theme hotel in Pan ‘an was settled, and various Chinese medicine elements were integrated into the daily living experience, becoming a “flower” for the mutual promotion and integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries.
The project of Sinopharm Cultural City, which integrates the development of characteristic blocks, famous yiguang, traditional Chinese medicine health preservation, professional medicated diet and health travel, landed in Jiangnan Medicine Town. Tong Sihe, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Xuefeng Group Co., Ltd., said that the first phase of the project, Jiangnan Medicine Town Health Exhibition Hall, National Medicine Exhibition Hall, Zhongke Medical Research Institute and Miao Medicine Research Institute, has been put into use.
Bao Jiajin, Chairman of Zhejiang Jibaichuan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., introduced that the company is building a cultural tourism base integrating “tourism, cultural publicity and education, physical fitness testing and management, participatory Chinese medicine processing and production, tea and medicinal food tasting, and health care”, in which the Oriental Ganoderma Cultural Center opened during the 2022 Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Expo.
Woye is full of gold, and the Millennium medicine town has a new look. At present, the medicine towns in the south of the Yangtze River have formed four cards of “medicine”, “medicine”, “nutrition” and “travel”, which is a beautiful picture of the medicine towns in the future. At present, Pan ‘an is empowering the high-quality development of the Chinese medicine industry with the innovation of integrity, and contributing to the construction of a strong province of Chinese medicine in Zhejiang. (Zhou Xinxin, Zhang Ling, Liu Jiayu)
Editor in charge: Song Yue