Hangzhou Chinese herbal medicine set foot on the export "Chaoyang Road"

Plant extract is a new high-tech product, which is made of natural plants, through extraction and separation, to obtain one or more effective ingredients As of March 10, in 2014, the export of extracts from medicinal plants under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Hangzhou inspection and quarantine bureau reached 26.5 tons, with a value of US $5.276 million, with a year-on-year decrease of 53.7% in weight and a year-on-year increase of 59.9%, becoming the leader in foreign exchange earning in the pharmaceutical industry With the help of the inspection and quarantine department, Hangzhou's traditional herbal medicine export industry, through active transformation and upgrading and continuous development and innovation, has a bright future, which is a new sunrise industry This issue focuses on a change: small powder is very popular When entering the sample room of Zhejiang huisong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., only a bag of powder with simple packaging and different specifications is placed on the display rack, showing different colors, some are light green, some are lilac, more are beige and pure white "Although these powders are not impressive, they are very valuable The most expensive one costs more than $600 per kilogram." Said the head of the enterprise proudly "The green tea extract, the blueberry extract, the ginseng extract and the yam extract are widely used in the world at present." The person in charge of huisong pharmaceutical company introduced to us In recent years, China's traditional herbal medicine export is facing the dual challenges of domestic resource shortage and increasing foreign access threshold, so the transformation and upgrading is imminent Compared with traditional Chinese medicine, medicinal plant extract has two advantages, which makes it the first choice for self-improvement of traditional Chinese medicine First, medicinal plant extracts conform to the trend of "green consumption" in the world, and are the carrier of advanced technology of modern plant medicine Compared with the disadvantages of chemical drugs, such as large side effects and drug resistance, they have incomparable advantages The second is that medicinal plant extracts have a wide range of applications and strong adaptability Because of the known and quantifiable effective ingredients, medicinal plant extracts are relatively more easily accepted by countries around the world, thus becoming a common language for the global application of traditional herbal medicines, and also an effective "stepping stone" for Chinese herbal medicines to enter the international market The head of Hangzhou Tiancao science and Technology Co., Ltd., another enterprise exporting plant extracts, told us that Ginkgo biloba extract has also been exported to Germany in large quantities in recent years, which has been made into cardiovascular drugs and favored by foreign patients; the extracts of ginseng, Rhodiola, Lycium barbarum and blueberry are widely used in foreign health care products industry The export of plant extracts has greatly changed the proportion of traditional export market In the past, Zhejiang huisong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd mainly exported traditional herbal medicines to Japan and Southeast Asia, with a relatively narrow market scope Since the transformation and export of medicinal plant extracts, it has greatly expanded the markets of EU, America, Australia, etc It can be said that the transformation and upgrading of traditional herbal medicine export in Hangzhou has taken a successful step Two flowers blooming: the promotion and production are facing challenges Although there are many advantages of medicinal plant extracts, in addition to the above two advantages, they also have the characteristics of high technology content, great added value, and large development space, there are still some difficulties in the promotion and production in China The main reason, Ma said, is that the production mode of traditional Chinese medicine differs greatly from that of plant extracts It is understood that the production and processing of traditional Chinese medicine is characterized by manual selection or simple machine selection, and the investment in scientific research and production line is relatively small, which is in the low-end chain of the medicine industry; the pharmaceutical plant extract is different, which is characterized by assembly line mechanized production, with large investment in scientific research, which is in the high-end chain of the medicine industry, and the technical content is very exquisite There is also a considerable consumption of raw materials for the extraction of medicinal plants Generally speaking, the extraction ratio of blueberry is 100:1, ginkgo is 50:1, and ginseng is relatively good, 10:1, which means that the investment in production is very large, and the enterprise needs to have strong capital strength and storage capacity According to rough estimates, Zhejiang huisong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd consumes 4500 tons of various traditional Chinese medicine materials every year, and the final extract is only two or three hundred tons Therefore, if the domestic traditional herbal medicine enterprises want to successfully explore and share the international market cake of medicinal plant extracts, they should not only have a long-term strategic vision, have a common vision with foreign customers, but also invest in scientific research and production equipment for a long time Draw inferences from one example: Inspection and enterprise cooperation conspire for the future In order to promote the domestic medicinal plant extracts to the whole world, help the traditional herbal medicine enterprises in their jurisdiction to successfully develop the international market of medicinal plant extracts In recent years, Hangzhou Bureau mainly guides and serves this sunrise industry through the following three measures The first is to collect, sort out and release the technical information about the management of medicinal plant extracts in time, so that enterprises can avoid detours in the transformation and upgrading Second, according to the actual situation of the enterprise, combined with the requirements of quarantine supervision and food safety, provide personalized quality management system services for the enterprise Third, by using risk analysis, the supervision mode has changed from traditional micro, batch inspection and one size fits all universal management to macro quality system management and dynamic classification management mode, which not only facilitates the enterprise, but also improves the scientificity of inspection and supervision In particular, export enterprises and products shall be classified and graded, and different levels of enterprises shall implement different sampling rates Through the stable operation of the quality system, the sampling rate shall be reduced, so that the enterprises can get benefits, and the enterprises shall be urged to form a virtuous cycle of promoting production with quality and actively grasping quality In order to develop the plant extract industry healthily, it is not enough to help the inspection and quarantine department How to break through the existing bottleneck, we need to clarify our thinking and draw inferences from one example According to the director of the animal and plant Department of Hangzhou Bureau, there are several bottlenecks in the development of plant extract industry First, the lack of industry standards and poor self-discipline limit the sustainable development of the industry Second, with the increase of the international market of plant extracts, countries in the world, especially the developed countries and regions in Europe and the United States, are increasingly tightening the quality supervision of plant extracts products, and more and more attention is paid to the quality and safety issues such as pesticide residues and solvent residues exceeding the standard, which will bring about increasing technical barriers to international trade Therefore, in a word, if we want to break through the technical barriers of developed countries, we must formulate and strictly implement the export standards of plant extracts, and win a broader market by standardizing production, improving product quality and promoting deeper transformation and upgrading Zhejiang is a big province in the production of traditional Chinese medicine, among which "eight flavors of Zhejiang" is the most famous Li Shizhen, a famous pharmacist in Ming Dynasty, said in compendium of Materia Medica that "Baishu produces Hangzhou and Yue." It can be seen that "eight flavors of Zhejiang" have long been famous at home and abroad Yuanhu, also known as yanhusuo, is one of the "eight flavors of Zhejiang" It is especially famous for its analgesic effect Today, the traditional Chinese medicine from Zhejiang Province has been widely used in the West as an oral or injectable analgesic in the form of plant extracts When it comes to plant extract, we can see it in every aspect of our daily life: plant pharmaceutical preparations, nutritional supplements, health food, cosmetics, etc Plant extract is a new type of high-tech product, which takes the whole or part of natural plants as raw materials, according to the needs of the final product use, through the physical or chemical extraction and separation process, directionally obtains and concentrates one or more effective ingredients in plants without changing the structure of their effective ingredients.