Talk to Lao Bi about traditional Chinese medicine -- if you want to be a county magistrate, you need to set up a pharmaceutical factory

In old China, the traditional Chinese medicine industry was basically blank, and in the early days of the people's Republic of China, it was basically in the state of "small workshops" in front of shops and behind factories By 1980, the output value of Chinese patent medicine in China was 871.32 million yuan (the total output value of chemical pharmacy in the same period was 5.134 billion yuan), but the number of Chinese patent medicine factories had grown to more than 660, and the average output value of each factory was about 1.3 million yuan, small, scattered, disorderly and poor "If you want to be a county head, you need to run a pharmaceutical factory" is a very popular slogan at the beginning of reform and opening up I once asked a county magistrate why he was keen on running a pharmaceutical factory He said vividly that the common people were frying medicine in casseroles, and we were boiling it in big pots In essence, there was no difference There is not much investment in running a traditional Chinese medicine factory, and it does not need any technology There is no other business that is simpler and faster than running a traditional Chinese medicine factory Local drug factories, school drug factories, hospital drug factories, military drug factories At that time, no one was allowed to run a pharmaceutical factory In 1979, when the state saw a mess, it instructed the Ministry of health to work with eight departments to rectify the drug factories nationwide By the end of the rectification in April 1983, 478 Chinese patent medicine factories had been kept in 662 nationwide and 184 had been shut down and transferred More than 30 years ago, China's Chinese patent medicine industry started under the condition that there was no technical threshold or technological content "Modern Chinese medicine" has not attached a rigorous scientific label to itself from the beginning, and has not established a sacred dignity for itself With the development of market economy, the trend of running pharmaceutical factories was not restrained, but it was more and more fierce In the peak period, the number of Chinese pharmaceutical factories was at least four times of that in 1983, and the "volume" of production capacity was even more unknown To run a pharmaceutical factory, we need a birth certificate Because of the resource advantages of Chinese patent medicine prescription sources (as mentioned above, from 1956 to 1959, as many as tens of millions of secret prescriptions and test prescriptions were collected in a single order) and the new drug approval authority delegated to the local government, the first wave of innovation of traditional Chinese medicine came, unstoppable The "clinical summary report" of new drug approval that I have seen is a two page square paper with 400 words In calligraphy, one or several Chinese doctors described that they have cured many patients with this medicine, and one of them is particularly typical of "rejuvenation with wonderful hands" and so on It is said that in the 1970s and early 1980s, when a new drug certificate of traditional Chinese medicine was obtained, it was less than three digits of RMB, generally four digits, and rarely heard that it exceeded five digits As soon as it is released, there are more drug factories, more new drugs and problems Since 1986, the Ministry of health has had to spend 10 years "cleaning up" nearly half of the approval numbers, leaving more than 4000 After the establishment of SFDA, under the guidance of the enterprise's "voice" and "supervision and promotion" concept, a number of approval numbers were restored through "unified renewal" Another wave of innovation of traditional Chinese medicine comes from another idea: the crux of China's pharmaceutical industry is not "inferior to people in skill", but "inferior to people in medicine" This just caters to the market demand that enterprises form "exclusive varieties" by changing specifications and dosage forms Therefore, the fire takes advantage of the wind to help the fire The South Koreans give people plastic surgery, and the Chinese give drugs for plastic surgery The ancient Chinese patent medicine has been dragged into the modern "cosmetic hospital" of the modified dosage form, only what you can't think of, without what I can't "change" In the past few years, a "Banlangen" has produced more than 1200 document numbers in more than a dozen dosage forms.