China plant extract market space

Plant extracts are the advanced technology of modern herbal carrier, is the main raw material of vegetable drug preparations. The relative chemical drug side effects, easy to produce drug resistance, plant extracts with there is nothing comparable to this natural advantage. At the same time, plant extracts both the development of less investment, high technology content, high added value, the extensive application of the market, the market space for development and etc.

Natural plant extract has been widely used in medicine, health products and cosmetics, world medicine market demand is very big, the majority of products in average export unit price in recent years all has different level to rise. Traditional Chinese medicine extracts more than 80 kinds of varieties, can be divided into 3 categories : single herbs extract, Schisandra, such as Ganoderma lucidum, Ciwujia, gingko biloba extract; compound Chinese herbal medicine extract, such as Buzhong Yiqi prescription extraction; purification of the extract, including the active site and the monomer compounds, such as soybean isoflavone, saponin, tea catechins.

At present, our plant extract exports to 88 countries and regions, the main export to the United States, Japan, China, Hongkong, South Korea and France, share of up to 66.73%, among them the United States accounted for 23.35% of Chinese exports of Hongkong, an increase of up to 640.97%. In 2005 1 ~ August, the export amount of Chinese plant extracts for $191000000, an increase of 34.12%, accounting for36.52% of total exports of Chinese medicine products.

On the century rise today hot

Plant extract in our country only has 10years of history, but in recent years to really heat up. Hunan nine Department of modern medicine Limited General Manager Ceng Jianguo said, extracts of the development in our country has experienced3 stages of development: one is to licorice, ephedra extract exports as the representative of the80's of the last century; the two is to go up century 90 time appeared in the middle of Ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort extracts even up export heat; three 2000although quality relative to the norm but the painful process of price of anarchy.

With the international natural plant medicine rise and scale unceasingly expands, the main raw materials plant extracts demand rising. Because our country in plant extracts industry has a unique advantage of the basic theory, plant extracts industry development is the future of modernization of Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine technology innovation the important link, is a traditional Chinese medicine into the international market in an effective manner.

At present, domestic plant extracts pharmaceutical aspects involved in the provinces of Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangxi etc.. The main extracts including Ginkgo biloba, fungus, antibiotic products, semi-synthetic antibiotics, such as extracts from Chinese herbal medicine. This year 1 ～ in June, China has 1085 enterprises engaged in plant extracts products import and export business activities, which are involved in the export of736 companies.

There are a lot of problems

Export price decline. In recent years, our country plant extracts products export volume rises considerably, but the export price is falling. In 1996 China plant extracts of the average export price is $20130/ mt, in 199915570dollars / ton, up from $14352 in 2001/ ton.

Low level competition. Industry concentration is small, scattered, business enterprise dimensions slants generally small, competition ability is not strong, the best-selling products on the market jump on the bandwagon, resulting in the low-level competition. Especially in the international market has its own brand of excellence. Most enterprise products is limited to the supply of raw materials, in the industry chain of low level. No quality assurance price competition, is likely to confuse the market, destroying Chinese brand.

Brand. Due to the raw material of the product technology content is low, it is difficult to produce brand effect. China plant extracts rise more than 10 years, in the international market is still not make noisy brand, to some extent, weakened our country product export potential.

The lack of industry standards. At present, most of the plant extracts have no national standards or industry standards, many enterprises to contract quality terms as product delivery basis. Product quality detection method is relatively confused, manage to production brought obstacles.

Backward technology and equipment. Plant extracts on production conditions, the production of higher technical requirements, advanced extraction, separation, purification and drying equipment and technology used in the production of plant extracts, which can greatly improve the plants pharmaceutical engineering progress and extract quality. But these techniques do not spread to each extract production enterprises, more small enterprises because of funding, personnel, a lack of information, technology and equipment are more backward.

Call the industry standard

Export brand

From the chamber of commerce information that, in recent years our country export of plant extracts the development speed is very quick, mainly for foreign medicine raw materials plant extracts, this class will be the future of China's export development focus. Extracts of industrialization will promote the production of proprietary Chinese medicine differentiation of raw materials for the production and preparation production part two, and the formation of Chinese raw extracts industry. Through the professional division of labor, is conducive to the improvement of Chinese medicine production and management standardization and intensive level. At the same time, in the export of traditional Chinese medicine for many years a stagnant situation, to medicinal plant extracts combination of new Chinese medicine compound form of export, is to promote the export of Chinese medicine is a good way.

Extracts of industrialization needs standard base. In February 16th this year, the Ministry of Commerce issued Hypericum perforatum, Angelica sinensis, Fructus aurantii Immaturus, red clover, valerian5extracts of Chinese medicine industry standards, earlier released new castigatory" medicinal plants and green industry standards for foreign trade agents". These standards to promote domestic enterprises to improve product quality to provide referential data, at the same time for enterprises to adopt advanced inspection technology and method, control products, pesticide residues and heavy metal content of microbial limit safety indicators, improve and standardize the quality standard system will play a role in promoting.

But in our country, extract outlet substantially in recent years behind the rapid growth, also highlighted the lack of brand. How in the fierce international competition promotes our country extract product brand, has become a pressing matter of the moment extracts industry. About expert proposal, the enterprises should be the long-term planning and the recent development of organic union rises, with high quality products in the international market, strive to build and nurture their own brands, and timely to his advantage products to the terminal consumers market extension, to enhance the industry's international competitiveness