Market prospect forecast of Chinese plant extracts in 2018: market scale will exceed 25 billion yuan

Plant extracts refer to substances extracted or processed from plants (all or part of plants) by appropriate solvents or methods, which can be used in pharmaceutical industry, food industry, health industry, beauty industry and other industries China's plant extract industry is a new industry in general and is in the development stage In recent years, the voice of "returning to nature" has been increasing all over the world Plant extracts have attracted more and more attention from the pharmaceutical and food industry It has become one of the fastest growing industries in China The market scale has leaped forward, showing great potential for internal development According to the Research Report on the development prospects and investment opportunities of China's plant extract industry in 2018-2023 released by China Business Industry Research Institute, the sales revenue in 2016 reached 20.167 billion yuan, an increase of 18.35% year on year The market prospect of Chinese plant extract predicts that the export volume of Chinese plant extract industry accounts for more than 80% of the total industry revenue, and export is the main way to drive the development of the industry In 2001, the export volume of Chinese plant extract was only US $191 million, and by 2010, the export volume had reached US $815 million In 2011, the export volume of plant extracts in China was US $1.13 billion, an increase of 47% year on year, becoming the first commodity category with more than US $1 billion in exports of traditional Chinese medicine and the main driving force for the export growth of traditional Chinese medicine products It can be seen that the market has a high degree of preference for natural drugs or food materials, and China's plant extract export prospects are good With the continuous introduction of favorable industrial support policies, the industry will continue to maintain a high-speed development state It is estimated that the market scale of China's plant extract industry will reach 24.9 billion yuan in 2018, and the industry scale will break through 34.1 billion yuan by 2022 Data source: open information, China Business Industry Research Institute sort out the industrialization development strategy of plant extracts 1 Cater to the market in advance, and the determination of plant extracts in the later cultivation market should be consistent with the trend of the other market at the beginning, and then cultivate the market in the later period That is to say, first of all, we should start with the popular foreign and Chinese varieties, which are ginkgo, ginseng, garlic, evening primrose oil and green tea extract Grape seeds, Hypericum perforatum, valerian, ephedra, and then selected from more than 100 varieties sold abroad but not forming a large market, such as angelica, motherwort, cohosh, Polygonum cuspidatum, eucommia, gastrodia, hawthorn, Pueraria, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, honeysuckle, Silybum, mint, plantain, acanthopanax senticosus, mushrooms, Ganoderma lucidum, cassia seed, as well as Rhodiola, Salvia miltiorrhiza 。 2 To improve the process technology and increase the added value of science and technology, the requirements for the production conditions and technology of Chinese herbal extracts are high Many advanced extraction, separation, purification and drying equipment and technology are applied to the production of Chinese herbal extracts The application of these technologies and equipment greatly improves the engineering technology and equipment level of Chinese herbal medicine, so as to improve the added value of products At present, plant extracts are extracted by organic solvents, directly concentrated or dried by spray drying tower Most varieties must be separated by column The type of resin should be determined according to the principle of phytochemistry 3 To improve the detection technology and product quality, quantitative analysis should be carried out for the effective standard components and harmful substances, or compared with the standard products, or fingerprint identification should be used, and strict detection should be carried out for raw materials, production process and finished products Reduce heavy metal and pesticide residues 4 The problem of sustainable utilization of traditional Chinese medicine resources is becoming increasingly prominent In recent years, plant raw materials have become the new favorite of the world API market, which has promoted the development upsurge of the world plant raw materials Some international pharmaceutical multinational companies have turned their attention to the resource countries.