China's trade surplus of traditional Chinese medicine continues

Since 2010, the global economy has shown obvious signs of recovery The global economy has entered the "post crisis" era, and the international market demand has further increased China's foreign trade of traditional Chinese medicine products has continued the growth trend since 2009, showing a significant increase In the first quarter of this year, China's import and export of traditional Chinese medicine products reached US $870 million, a year-on-year increase of 33.5%; of which, export reached US $690 million, a year-on-year increase of 40%; import reached US $180 million, a year-on-year increase of 12.3% In different seasons, the foreign trade of traditional Chinese medicine continued to maintain a surplus, with a surplus of 510 million US dollars In each single commodity, the export growth of extract and traditional Chinese medicine trade is about 44%, which is a large surplus, while the trade of traditional Chinese medicine only has a small surplus, and the export of extract accounts for 63% of the total export of traditional Chinese medicine products, ranking first; the export of Chinese medicine Pieces accounts for 23% of the total export of traditional Chinese medicine products, ranking second; the trade of health care products has been in deficit since 2003, 2009 is the deficit In the year with the highest volume, the deficit continued in the first quarter of this year From the perspective of trade mode, general trade is still the main mode of import and export of traditional Chinese medicine, among which, the products of traditional Chinese medicine exported by general trade mode account for 91% of the total export of traditional Chinese medicine; the products of traditional Chinese medicine imported by general trade mode account for 74% of the total import of traditional Chinese medicine In the import trade, the proportion of processing trade is 16%; in the export trade, the proportion of processing trade is 4% The warehousing and entrepot trade of goods in the bonded area is another characteristic way of importing traditional Chinese medicine In the first quarter, the volume of imported traditional Chinese medicine goods in this way reached 744 tons Border small trade is another feature of traditional Chinese medicine export In the first quarter, the export volume of traditional Chinese medicine products reached 6671 tons, which is the most export mode except general trade In the first quarter of this year, there were 2474 export enterprises of traditional Chinese medicine products Private enterprises became the main force of export, accounting for 51% of the total export amount; foreign-funded enterprises accounted for 23% of the total export amount; state-owned enterprises only accounted for 26% of the total export amount It is worth noting that the proportion of private enterprises exporting traditional Chinese medicine is increasing In the first quarter of this year, there were 837 enterprises engaged in the import of traditional Chinese medicine products The import volume of foreign-funded enterprises decreased compared with the same period of last year, with the import volume of US $81.88 million, accounting for 45%; the import volume of private enterprises was US $80.44 million, accounting for 45%, with a year-on-year growth of 50%, with a strong growth trend; the import volume of state-owned enterprises was US $16.12 million, accounting for only 9% Link > > > trade characteristics of various major categories of commodities: the overall scale of import and export of Chinese herbal medicines showed an upward trend In the first quarter of this year, the import and export volume of Chinese herbal medicines reached 400 million US dollars, an increase of 60% year on year Among them, the export value is 340 million US dollars, an increase of 67% year-on-year; the import value is 66.27 million US dollars, an increase of 34% year-on-year It is expected that this year's overall import and export scale of Chinese herbal medicines and decoction pieces will reach a new level The export volume of Chinese medicinal materials and pieces of decoction has a large increase year on year The export volume of chrysanthemum and tuckahoe increased by more than 50% However, the growth rate of Lycium barbarum is larger, the export volume and the export volume have doubled The main export market of Chinese herbal medicines in China is Asia Among them, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam are the main regions, and the total exports of the four regions account for about 59% of the total exports Some of the Chinese herbal medicines exported to Hong Kong are used to process Chinese patent medicines, while most of them are exported to other countries and regions, such as the United States, Taiwan and Japan Guangdong and Guangxi are the major export provinces of Chinese herbal pieces These two provinces have been occupying the top two export provinces in recent years by virtue of their geographical advantages In the first quarter, Guangdong and Guangxi accounted for 49% of China's total exports of Chinese herbal medicines and decoction pieces As Guangdong is adjacent to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, it is the main export market of Chinese herbal medicine pieces; Guangxi is close to Vietnam, with a unique geographical location, most of the Chinese herbal medicine pieces are exported to Vietnam through border trade; Bozhou, Anhui Province, aims at the Korean Chinese herbal medicine pieces market, with the largest export growth in the first quarter of 2010, with a year-on-year growth of 88% In the first quarter, there were more than 700 enterprises exporting Chinese herbal medicine and decoction pieces, and only 9 enterprises with an export volume of more than US $2 million The top five enterprises were Guangxi Ningming import and Export Trade Corporation, China Pharmaceutical and Health Products Corporation, Shandong Shenshi Food Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Jincun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd and Zhejiang medical insurance company Plant extract: the strong growth momentum boosted the export performance of traditional Chinese medicine in the first quarter The export volume of plant extract was US $440 million, a year-on-year increase of 44.3%, accounting for 63.7% of the export volume of traditional Chinese medicine The export volume of plant extracts was 27000 tons, up 52.3% year on year At present, the application of extract has become more and more extensive, involving food, health care products, cosmetics, drugs and many other fields The global demand in each field is different, and there is a certain gap in the export volume In general, the global demand for extracts from food additives has grown rapidly in recent years, with the largest export volume, while the export volume of extracts for medicinal and health products is relatively small The export growth of enterprises dealing in medicinal and health products plant extracts is stable, with few big fluctuations The export ranking in the first quarter is basically the same as that in 2009 The top 5 enterprises in the export volume of medical health products extract enterprises are Shanghai Jincun pharmaceutical, Ningbo lvzhijian pharmaceutical, Beijing Green Jinke company, Shaanxi Jiahe plant company and Zhejiang Shaoxing Dongling health products company In recent years, the market demand of natural plant pigment, stevia extract and other food additive plant extracts has been growing rapidly, and the export volume of enterprises operating a large number of such products has increased geometrically The top 5 export enterprises of food additive extract enterprises are Chenguang Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd., Ganzhou Julong high tech Industry Co., Ltd., Zibo Qianqian international trade company, Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone Maifu biological products company and Anhui Jinhe industry company In the first quarter, the export market of extracts changed significantly compared with last year For the first time, the Indian market has become the second largest market for China's extract export; while Malaysia is the market with the fastest growth year-on-year in the first quarter, with an increase of 105.9% compared with the same period last year The sharp increase in the export volume of these two markets is due to the rapid growth of demand for food additive plant extract products Chinese patent medicine: the trade deficit continued to increase in the first quarter The import and export volume of Chinese patent medicine reached 100 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 25% The import and export volume of Chinese patent medicine accounted for 12% of the import and export volume of traditional Chinese medicine products Chinese patent medicine imports US $51.32 million, a year-on-year increase of 35%; exports US $54.33 million, a year-on-year increase of 18% Among the 379 enterprises with export business, state-owned enterprises account for 45% and private enterprises account for 32%; the main export provinces and cities are Guangdong and Shanghai; there are only 11 enterprises with export volume exceeding US $1 million, and the top five export enterprises are Beijing Tongrentang, Zhangzhou pianzehuang, Zhejiang medical insurance company, Kunming Pharmaceutical and Tianjin ZHONGXIN PHARMACEUTICAL Health care products: the import and export increased steadily, the export volume increased 98% year-on-year in the first quarter, the import and export volume of health care products in China reached 71 million US dollars, an increase of 16% year-on-year, and the import and export volume of proprietary Chinese medicine accounted for 8% of the total import and export volume of traditional Chinese medicine products The import of Chinese patent medicine was US $35.87 million, a year-on-year increase of 14%; the export was US $35.15 million, a year-on-year increase of 19% In the first quarter, there were 258 export enterprises of health care products in China, 58% of which were private enterprises, 30% of which were foreign-funded enterprises The main export provinces and cities were Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong and Shanghai In the first quarter, the export of health care products in these four regions accounted for more than 60% of the total in China, and only 6 enterprises with the export volume of more than 1 million US dollars The top 5 export enterprises were Haotian pharmaceutical and Guangguang Dongxianle Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shandong Yuwang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Jiangshan hengliangfeng Products Co., Ltd., and Anhui langkun Technology Development Co., Ltd In the first quarter, the main export products of China's health care products are fish oil, fat and its separation products, inositol and other commodities in addition to cod liver oil, and the main export markets are the United States and Japan.