Dingxi's traditional Chinese medicine has become a "cash cow"

Recently, it was learned from the Municipal Agricultural Bureau that this year, the total output of traditional Chinese medicine in Dingxi City reached about 168600 tons, with a total output value of 1.697 billion yuan This figure makes the total annual output value of the city's traditional Chinese medicine industry increase by nearly 200 million yuan on the basis of 1.5 billion yuan in 2008, which is another step forward from the target of raising the total output value to 3.8 billion yuan five years later The per capita net income of farmers in the city is 456 yuan, accounting for 18.8% of the per capita net income of farmers The traditional Chinese medicine industry has become a characteristic advantage industry for farmers in Dingxi City Dingxi City, known as "Millennium medicine town", is one of the main production areas of traditional Chinese medicine in the country In recent years, through the vigorous development of traditional Chinese medicine industry, the planting area of traditional Chinese medicine in the city has been stable at about 1.1 million mu, accounting for 49% of the province, ranking first among the prefecture level cities in the country Among the 363 main varieties of traditional Chinese medicine, nearly 40% of them are in Dingxi City, and nearly 80% of them are in Dingxi City The planting area of traditional Chinese medicine in the city has been kept at about 1 million mu for 7 consecutive years According to the introduction, there are 93 large-scale processing enterprises of traditional Chinese medicine in Dingxi City, which process 79700 tons of traditional Chinese medicine this year, accounting for 47.2% of the total output of traditional Chinese medicine, realizing the processing output value of 860 million yuan The product type has developed into a variety of products such as Chinese herbal pieces, semi-finished products of traditional Chinese medicine (standard extract), traditional Chinese medicine, series health care, etc Five large and medium-sized professional markets for traditional Chinese medicine have been established, including Wenfeng and Shouyang in Longxi, Huichuan in Weiyuan, Chengjiao and Meichuan in Minxian, as well as Longxi logistics park for traditional Chinese medicine and Danggui city in Minxian The static storage capacity of traditional Chinese medicine reaches 200000 tons, the annual trading volume of traditional Chinese medicine reaches 306000 tons, and the trading volume is 2.94 billion yuan In particular, there are more than 500 varieties of traditional Chinese medicine traded in Longxi Wenfeng and Shouyang markets all the year round, among which there are more than 130 bulk varieties, with an annual trading volume of 180000 tons and a trading volume of 2 billion yuan It has developed into the national wholesale trading market of large and medium-sized medicinal materials second only to Bozhou, Anhui Province, and the price formation center of bulk medicinal materials in the north It has become the "Qingqing" of the prices of Dangshen, huangqi and Angelica in China Rain watch In Dingxi, which used to be "hard and barren" in the world, the traditional Chinese medicine industry is marching forward with great strides against the clarion call of the western development.