Improving the Quality of Medicinal Materials Cross-Strait Collaboration to Improve the Quality of Chinese Medicinal Materials

Business Club January 28 News January 13th, the Chinese Medicine Association of Chinese herbal medicine planting and breeding professional committee (hereinafter referred to as the "secondary school") and the Taiwan Chinese Federation of Chinese Traditional Medicine Merchants Federation (hereinafter referred to as "the Federation") again joined forces In Beijing, a signing ceremony was held for production materials and application demonstration companies for pollution-free planting bases. As a further deepening and implementation of the first cooperation between the two parties in Lishui, Zhejiang in September last year, this meeting has more substantive significance. Not only has the two parties signed the “Agreement on Strategic Cooperation in Cross-Strait Chinese Medicinal Materials” but also from Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Sixteen units in 10 provinces (districts) including Fujian, Yunnan, Liaoning, Jilin, Shandong and Henan witnessed by the relevant officials of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Forestry Administration and the State Administration of Mines Management. The company signed a cooperation agreement for a pollution-free planting base.

On this day, it was just 23 days after the signing of the Agreement on Medical Cooperation between the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits and 20 days before the Spring Festival. “The reason for signing the contract before the Spring Festival is to allow the southern Chinese herbal medicine planting base to conduct spring plowing after the holidays,” Wang Weiquan, chairman of the Chinese Medicine Association's planting and breeding committee, told the reporter.

Speed ​​up strategic cooperation

"For compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the Chinese medicine industry, this is a major event and it is also a good thing," said Fang Shuting, president of the Chinese Medicine Association, saying that cross-strait development of demonstration bases for the development of pollution-free medicinal materials will continue to promote this work. Greatly improved the quality of Chinese herbal medicines in the mainland, and at the same time set off an upsurge in Chinese herbal medicines to pay attention to the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines.

It is understood that there are about 870 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine resources in Taiwan, but there are shortages of resources on the island, and some are in the extreme. At least 70% to 80% of Chinese herbal medicines in the Taiwan market come from the mainland of the motherland. According to statistics from the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products, from January to July 2010, the mainland's exports to Taiwan had reached 37.17 million U.S. dollars, ranking eighth in the world’s exports of Chinese medicines, and an increase of 48.43% year-on-year. Among them, Chinese herbal medicines accounted for the largest amount of pieces, reaching 28.10 million US dollars, an increase of 48%, accounting for 76%. In the same period, Chinese herbal medicines were exported to 100 countries and regions, and Taiwan ranked fifth.

"In recent years, Taiwan's drug administration has increasingly tightened its management of traditional Chinese medicines. Since most Chinese herbal medicines rely on imports, their quality depends on the quality of Chinese medicine preparations. Therefore, there are requirements for pesticide residues, heavy metals, and aflatoxin limits. The herbs purchased by the factory must be sent for inspection before they are made into Chinese medicines.” A Taiwanese herbal trader said that mainland China places more emphasis on the detection of active ingredients or indicators in the testing of Chinese herbal medicines, while Taiwan is even more Pay attention to the control of safety indicators such as heavy metal pollution and pesticide residues.

Wang Ruizheng, chairman of the China Federation of Chinese Medicine and Trade Association, said that the Federation is the only association of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Taiwan. Its membership includes 12,000 Chinese herbalists and more than 70,000 practitioners, covering the entire Chinese herbal medicine market in Taiwan. The annual imports of Chinese herbal medicines from the mainland by the Federation are approximately 50,000 tons. "The establishment of the GAP base for Chinese herbal medicines by the mainland drug regulatory agencies and the standardized pollution-free cultivation by the industry will ensure the quality of Chinese herbal medicines in the Taiwan market."

In the strategic cooperation agreement on cross-strait Chinese herbal medicines signed by the two sides on the 13th, it was stipulated explicitly that the technical secondary school shall vigorously promote organic fertilizer and pollution-free cultivation and aquaculture in order to ensure that the trade of Chinese herbal medicines with Taiwan meets the standards and requirements required by Taiwan. Responsible for the purchase of medicinal materials in the mainland region, collaborate on related trade procedures, and further improve the traceability system for medicinal herbs as a powerful guarantee for cross-strait medicinal materials trade exchanges. The Federation promotes the lifting of cross-strait trade exchange barriers in accordance with relevant laws and regulations in Taiwan; it conducts multi-faceted cooperation and exchanges with the China Junior College, strives to exchange visits and exchanges each year, and tries to rely on the varieties of recommendations and quality provided by the Association. Guarantee the recommendation as a basis and priority condition for Taiwan trade. At the same time, the two sides have established information sharing resources for trade interoperability, interoperating with each other in production, prices, trade, etc., to make the information extensive, accurate, and authoritative so as to promote cross-strait trade cooperation.

Demonstration planting start

“The treatment of Chinese herbal medicines must ultimately start from the source.” At the meeting, the former deputy director of the State Food and Drug Administration, Hui Lusheng, proposed that standardized and large-scale production is an inevitable way for the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines, as well as the stable and controllable quality of medicinal materials. Important guarantee. "The demonstration bases must take advantage of Taiwan's planting technology to truly establish a fully traceable safety management system."

It is understood that there are more than 600 varieties of traditional Chinese medicines that are routinely used in China, more than 200 commonly used species have been successfully planted in large scale, and nearly 400 species rely on wild species. The country's planting area has reached nearly 25 million mu. Among them, there are more than 500 standardized and large-scale planting bases with a total area of ​​nearly 1 million mu, which can basically guarantee the needs of Chinese companies manufacturing Chinese medicines.

“China's traditional Chinese medicine planting modes include three types: company + farmer, farm type, and cooperative type.” Wang Weiquan said that at present, there are still some problems in the production of Chinese herbal medicines, which affects the development of Chinese herbal planting industry in the mainland to some extent. And improve the quality of medicinal herbs. For example, the scattered cultivation and chaos of Chinese herbal medicines are more prominent, and more extensive management is adopted; the concept of quality consciousness of growers is weak; the cultivation technology and information are backward; the blind development of production and the ability to resist risks are low.

To change this situation and promote the standardization, standardization, scale, and branding of Chinese herbal medicine bases, under the vigorous promotion of the technical secondary school, on January 13th, 16 planting bases in the mainland and Taiwan Hongfu Ecological Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and Fujian The Huaxia Baodao Ecological New Technology Co., Ltd. and the Chinese Medicine Association's Chinese Herbal Planting and Breeding Professional Committee signed a four-party agreement. “The technical secondary school strongly promotes the promotion and use of high-tech and pollution-free products and makes full use of the advantages of all parties. In the early stages of the demonstration, we strongly recommend the promotion and application of organic fertilizers in the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials.” Wang Weiquan said that the cooperation period is based on the growth of Chinese herbal medicine varieties. The period shall prevail and take effect from the date of signing.

In the field of cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines, Taiwan’s advanced agricultural technology has never been “excellent,” but the mainland has both mature varieties and certain planting bases and planting areas. If mature varieties are selected to promote planting in large areas, Taiwan’s technological applications will be improved. At the same time, it can also improve the quality and production efficiency of Chinese herbal medicines in the mainland. Therefore, according to the agreement, each planting base must be in strict accordance with the use methods and regulations in the cultivation of medicinal herbs in the areas under its jurisdiction. The organic fertilizer should be experimentally promoted in batches, and the continuity of the experimental application should be ensured. area. Hongfu Biotech Co., Ltd. ensures the technical reliability and maturity of the recommended products, provides necessary support and services for planting bases, and strengthens quality supervision, and is responsible for training the operational procedures for the use of organic fertilizers and solving the technical problems encountered in the operation process; At the end of the trial-to-test period, a comprehensive technical assessment of organic fertilizer application is submitted. During the trial period, Fujian Huaxia Baodao Co. provided free use of organic fertilizer for the planting base. The technical secondary school shall actively build a cross-strait trade platform, give full play to its advantages, coordinate and resolve relevant issues of various parties and provide technical support, so as to facilitate the use of Chinese herbal medicines with organic fertilizers to meet export standards and transfer matured new technological achievements to other areas. Base promotion.

"To grasp the origin of Chinese herbal medicines, we need to increase the promotion and application of pollution-free Chinese herbal medicine planting techniques. The secondary technical colleges must coordinate, focus on the selection and expansion of varieties, and periodically evaluate and summarize them in stages. Promote the results achieved." Hui Lusheng stressed.

Helping the development of the "12th Five-Year Plan"

At the signing date, experts from the Institute of Medicinal Plants of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, the Taiwan Agricultural Drugs and Toxicology Institute, and the technicians of Longhui High-tech Plants Co., Ltd. and Hongfu Biotech Co., Ltd. respectively bred seed seedlings, and planted Chinese herbal medicines. Testing seminars, the application of rapid plant propagation methods, and the implementation mode of pollution-free products in the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines were given lectures. Xiao Wenyong, general manager of Hongfu Biotech Co., Ltd. stated that with the development of modern agricultural technology, Taiwan has accumulated a lot of experience in this area. “Hongfu Company is willing to enhance the mainland’s experience by teaching modern agricultural techniques to be used in the cultivation of traditional Chinese herbal medicines. The technical level in the field will jointly promote the traditional Chinese medicine culture."

After the “Nuke” technical knowledge, the relevant officials of the Department of Pharmaceutical Products of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology explained the policies for the development of the Chinese medicinal material planting industry during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, and even more for many planting companies. . The official said that during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the country will focus on supporting the standardization of Chinese herbal medicines and the construction of large-scale planting bases.

According to sources close to authoritative departments, the target for the development of the Chinese herbal medicine planting industry during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period has been set: By 2015, some commonly used bulk medicinal materials required by the Chinese medicine industry will basically achieve stable supply, and some wild and scarce Chinese herbal medicines will basically be realized. Family farming; National large-scale, standardized, industrialization of Chinese herbal medicine planting area will expand development; medicine quality uniformity, quality stability has increased significantly, the level of production organization has increased significantly, the professional Chinese herbal medicine production companies become the main supplier of Chinese herbal medicine varieties. “The basic principle is to strengthen the supporting role of science and technology and information, so that the production of Chinese herbal medicines can be guaranteed, the quality can be traced back, and the price is stable.” The source said that in terms of financial support, it may “give key support for large-scale backbone medicinal planting projects. The total number will not exceed 'Eleventh Five-Year', but individual project support funds will increase exponentially; industrial dragon skull enterprises will be encouraged to build authentic Chinese herbal medicines and large-scale planting bases suitable for planting varieties in Chinese herbal medicine production areas; encouragement and implementation of company + farmers The main Chinese medicine production base construction model."

"In the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the state will successively introduce a lot of policies to support the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines, encourage and promote the development of Chinese herbal medicines in the direction of scale and standardization." Wang Weiquan said that following the country-led industrial development direction, the As soon as possible, we will guide and help enterprises and drug-agriculture development, and we will focus on improving the internal quality of Chinese medicinal materials on the basis of improving market supply capacity. Starting from standard demonstration planting, through the encouragement of establishing industrial alliances, optimizing the cooperation mode of raw material supply and industrial production; absorbing and promoting advanced technologies and production materials, and constantly improving the quality of medicinal materials; taking necessary measures to promote the quality improvement of medicinal materials and helping Chinese medicine Wood growers strive for support from various countries; increase information service, give full play to the information support role of planting frontiers, and rely on information service platforms from seeds, seedlings, planting scale, and market price changes to help production companies and drug farmers solve problems. All aspects of problems and difficulties and other measures have driven the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines to a new level.

“Upgrading the quality of Chinese herbal medicines is a requirement for the development of the cultivation industry of Chinese herbal medicines, and it is also a need for people’s living standards to increase. It is also a need for the inheritance of Chinese traditional Chinese medicine culture.” Wang Weiquan said that some large pharmaceutical companies in Taiwan have proposed demonstrations at the pollution-free cultivation base. After its success, it hopes to cooperate in establishing a coalition cooperation base. Wang Weiquan emphasized: “We will surely start from the source of traditional Chinese medicine based on the concept of safety, reassurance and health. We will cultivate and cultivate herbal medicines to ensure that they are safe, healthy and healthy."