Xinhua News Agency issued an article: About 100 new Chinese medicine varieties were discovered

According to the latest 2019 annual report of TCM resource census compiled by the national TCM resource census project team of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, by the end of 2019, TCM resource census has been carried out in more than 2600 county-level administrative divisions in 31 provinces nationwide, and about 100 new species have been found The report shows that nearly 60% of these new species have potential medicinal value through preliminary analysis There are many new discoveries in the general survey, including new taxa, new records, new cognition, etc for example, the new genera of Orchidaceae, primordium and Urticaceae, symptomatology, are found According to the report, up to now, based on the information management system of the national survey of traditional Chinese medicine resources, the information on the types and distribution of nearly 13000 kinds of wild medicinal resources in the country has been summarized, with a total number of about 20 million records There are 3150 unique species of medicinal plants in China, the most abundant of which is in Southwest China Based on the survey data of more than one million sample prescriptions, the reserves of 563 kinds of Chinese medicinal materials collected in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia can be estimated Traditional Chinese medicine resources are the material basis for the development of traditional Chinese medicine industry The state attaches great importance to the protection and sustainable utilization of traditional Chinese medicine resources Since the third national survey of traditional Chinese medicine resources was completed in the 1980s, with the increasing demand for traditional Chinese medicine resources, the situation of traditional Chinese medicine resources in China has changed dramatically, so it is urgent to "find out the background" It is understood that since 2011, the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine has been carrying out the investigation of traditional Chinese medicine resources with county as the basic unit In June 2018, the fourth national survey of traditional Chinese medicine resources was fully launched, and 531 counties were surveyed in 2019 It is planned to complete the field survey with counties as the basic unit in 2020 (BIOON Com)