my country's plant extract industry needs to increase "gold content"

A worldwide "return to nature" boom has made plant extract, a new industry, grow rapidly and become a global market with annual sales of nearly 100 billion US dollars At the 2010 Forum on improving the international competitiveness of China's plant extract industry held in Beijing on October 28, participants agreed that if China wants to make greater achievements in this emerging market, it must change the traditional development mode that only relies on exports, start from controlling product quality, and realize the sustainable development of the whole industry It is reported that plant extracts refer to the substances with active ingredients extracted from natural plants Plant extract is the main raw material of plant medicine preparation, and can be used in nutrition supplement, health food, cosmetics and other industries It is the core product of natural medicine health product market "The increase of trade barriers brought by the improvement of agricultural residues, heavy metals, microorganisms and other requirements; the new demand for enterprise product certification; the increase of enterprise operating costs such as labor costs and high prices of medicinal materials, as well as the new requirements of the state for environmental protection of production enterprises, are all new challenges for the next development of China's plant extract industry." Liu Zhanglin, vice president of China Chamber of Commerce for the import and export of pharmaceutical and health care products, said that the biggest challenge for the development of China's plant extraction industry is the industry itself, which includes both the external environment for industrial development and the problems faced by the industry itself Plant extraction is a new industry Although some European countries began to produce and apply plant extracts in the early 19th century, it was still in its infancy, not on a scale, let alone an industry The real rise of plant extracts was after the promulgation of dietary supplement health and education act in 1994 in the United States The United States Food and Drug Administration officially accepted plant extracts as a food supplement, which made the development of plant extracts truly upgraded Liu Zhanglin said that the key to the development of plant extracts in China is the control of product quality If the product quality is not up to standard and the fake and inferior products cannot be eliminated, it will have a fatal threat to the industrial development Because the product quality problem is a fatal damage to consumer confidence, and from the perspective of international development trend, the quality supervision of plant extract products in the United States and other western countries also shows a more stringent trend At present, the global plant extract market is developing at an amazing speed Statistics show that the global market size of many fields of herbal medicine or plant products has reached US $83 billion, and the growth of each field is relatively stable, ranging from 3% to 12% Among them, the market share of herbal health products accounts for 1 / 3, including herbal dietary supplements and herbal functional foods; the global herbal products industry contributes US $44 billion; and herbal beauty products account for the remaining US $14 billion The global market for plant products is huge Yu Xiaodong, director of the center for public nutrition and development of the macro institute of the national development and Reform Commission, believes that the health industry known as the fifth technological and industrial revolution is sweeping the world, and China will become the core of the global health industry The core of health industry is nutrition industry Plant extract is an important guarantee for the development of nutrition industry, because plant extract is the key to improve the nutritional function of products Traditional Chinese medicine has laid a solid theoretical and practical foundation for the development of plant extract products and nutrition industry According to the statistics of China Chamber of Commerce for the import and export of medical and health products, plant extracts are the main force in the export of Chinese traditional medicine, accounting for more than 40% From January to August this year, the export of plant extracts showed a steady growth trend, with the export volume of 510 million US dollars, up 16.5% year on year "It should be noted that plant extract products are now more developed countries doing, it is more as raw materials to be provided to enterprises in developed countries, and developed countries are more in doing finished products with higher added value On the one hand, there is a gap in the product quality and R & D level of finished products in these countries " Zhang Bengang, deputy director of the Research Center for the protection and evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine resources, Institute of medicinal plants, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said The participants believed that the development of China's plant extract industry should strive to improve product quality, expand influence and improve international competitiveness The quality problem is the biggest obstacle to the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine The Chinese extract industry should speed up the standardization process of traditional Chinese medicine production and strictly control the quality Establish the production management standard of extract, promote its quality standardization and further expand the market by standardizing and institutionalizing the production of extract It is understood that the standard construction of plant extracts in China has made good progress In the Pharmacopoeia of the people's Republic of China, in addition to 31 kinds of Chinese herbal extracts included in the 2005 edition, 16 kinds of extracts have also been added In addition, seven industrial standards for foreign trade of plant extracts have been formulated and issued, and 13 industrial standards for foreign trade of plant extracts are being drafted "Necessary industry regulation and policy support and guidance, establishment of standardized planting base, cultivation of sustainable development of product operation mode, improvement of quality with standards, and strengthening of industry self-discipline through product and industry integration are the healthy and orderly development of the whole industry." Zhang Chengcheng, President of China plant extract association and general manager of Xi'an Haotian Biotechnology Co., Ltd.