Traditional Chinese medicine extract rising exports many foreign goods "shifted"

On October 18, 2013

        Business club on October 18

        Ginkgo biloba extract, cranberry extract, ginseng extract... Outside of a global phenomenon "plant extracts have recently the international business standards, and in the development of the listed company or will benefit, sales will be more" hand ".

        Statistics show that in the first quarter of 2013 plant extracts exports as much as $330 million, accounting for 47% of the Chinese traditional medicine merchandise exports, while the United States has for years been plant extracts in our country exports the first place.

        Exports: plant extracts

        Learned, plant extracts industry is a sunrise industry rapid development, in the field of traditional Chinese medicine of China's export, plant extracts quickly in recent years, the export growth rate is much higher than traditional Chinese medicinal materials, it's all related to favor more and more countries began to nutritional health products.

        In America, for example, in the United States and China traditional Chinese medicine trade, the main part is the extract of exports to the United States in our country. China's exports to the United States is the largest plant extracts products, licorice extract including liquorice extract, licorice products such as glycyrrhizic acid salt. Nutritional health products consumer market size in the United States, and this market is growing at 20% a year, and is influenced by factors such as farmers grow habits and production cost, the production of medicinal plants can meet the demand of the production of only 25%, the rest of the API is rely on imports.

        Plant extracts in China after entering the international market, the part for local plants as medicine or dietary supplements, some may also be processed into higher value-added "foreign Chinese medicine" back to domestic sales. "Like plant extracts of ginkgo health products, both at home and abroad are now gradually began to busy, Germany develops very fast in this aspect, some enterprises annual amount of ginkgo biloba raw material processing 800 tons." One industry observers said. Market: popular with the elderly

        Reporters visited guangzhou pharmacies and browse taobao [microblogging] shop found that all kinds of Chinese and western "traditional Chinese medicine health care products" are popular, especially with aloe, gingko, cranberry, grape seed, ginseng, rose hips, a variety of plants extraction compound and other categories of health care products more popular, and most of the price is expensive, mainstream price between 100 ~ 600 yuan/bottle.

        "Health care products of wind waves, such as deep sea fish oil, collagen, spirulina elements has been popular, and plant extracts indeed belong to the rare" sino-foreign passes kills "type." Guangzhou a drugstore, a marketing manager told our reporter, because the main plant and feel natural and less side effects, and many plants are indeed proven preventive care for a variety of diseases have certain effect, so the market feedback is good, sales is higher year by year, the elderly is the main consumer groups.

        But the industry also pointed out that in the emerging field of plant extracts health care products, domestic and foreign enterprises to fight fierce, a hand-to-hand combat, and the advantages of Chinese and foreign is very different: "a lot of foreign giants have advantages in technology and patent, because Chinese traditional medicine products or sensitive, while foreign companies can often in the extraction and separation technology, product function mechanism and safety evaluation went before him, the main disadvantage of this just is the domestic medicine companies; but our traditional Chinese medicine enterprises have 'location advantage, it is a pity that at present Chinese medicine enterprises in foreign countries" stage mode "or is not easy." He said.

(article source: guangzhou daily)