China News Service, Changsha, October 12 (Reporter Tang Xiaoqing) On the 11th, the signing ceremony for the strategic cooperation in the international market development of the Xiangjiuwei and Wulingshan area characteristic Chinese medicinal materials industry was held in Changsha.

Li Weiwei, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended and witnessed the signing ceremony.

  "Xiangjiuwei" is the collective name of Hunan's "brand" medicinal materials, including lily, polygonatum odoratum, Polygonatum, Liceu, Citrus aurantium, Boluohui, Poria, Eucommia, and Xianglian.

At present, Hunan has a total of 4123 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine resources, and the total reserves of traditional Chinese medicine materials rank second in the country.

Among the 361 commonly used key Chinese medicinal materials in China, Hunan has 241.

  In recent years, Hunan has integrated the development of traditional Chinese medicine into the strategy of "three highs and four new", and has continued to exert efforts in various links such as Chinese medicinal material planting, Chinese medicine industry, and Chinese medicine cultural tourism to create a Chinese medicine industry of 100 billion yuan.

  Led by the CPPCC of Hunan Province, the first academician workstation in the field of traditional Chinese medicine in Hunan Province—Academician Liu Liang's Expert Workstation since it settled in Hunan in July last year, has actively carried out high-tech breeding, planting, and production, and has developed a number of national-level new drugs.

The workstation is based on Hunan Zhengqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., and is jointly built by Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Achievement transformation and technology promotion, and strive to build Hunan into a bridgehead for technological innovation, achievement transformation and industrial development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

  On the same day, Enmin Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong), Guangzhou Zhixin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Hunan Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry Association, Hunan Zhengqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., and Huaihua Municipal People’s Government jointly signed the five parties of Xiangjiuwei and Wuling A strategic cooperation agreement on the development of the international market for the characteristic Chinese medicinal materials industry in the mountain area.

This signing is a major achievement since the academician Liu Liang's expert workstation settled in Huaihua, Hunan.

On July 11, 2020, the awarding and launching ceremony of the Expert Workstation of Academician Liu Liang of Hunan Province was held in Changsha.

(Data map) Photo courtesy of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

  According to the agreement, the scientific and technological leading role of the Hunan-Guangdong-Macao cooperative science and technology platform such as Academician Liu Liang’s Expert Workstation and Qingfengteng Research Institute will be fully utilized. Experiments, new product development and international drug registration and other technical development cooperation, open up the export channels of Chinese medicinal materials and Chinese patent medicines, related products and services, seize the initiative in international trade, and create cooperation in the Hunan-Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, science, agriculture and industry The new model of trade linkage and accelerating the development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry with regional advantages and characteristics will drive the output value of the entire industrial chain of Chinese medicinal materials to tens of billions within five years, helping Hunan's strategy of strengthening the province of traditional Chinese medicine.

  Chen Fei, vice governor of the Hunan Provincial People’s Government, said that he hopes that all parties to the contract will use this signing as an opportunity to deepen communication, strengthen strategic coordination, and give full play to the scientific and technological platforms of Hunan, Guangdong and Macao such as the academician Liu Liang’s expert workstation and the Qingfengteng Research Institute. Leading role of science and technology, tap the resources of traditional Chinese medicine, promote the development and utilization of characteristic Chinese medicinal materials in Xiangjiuwei and Wulingshan area, establish ISO international standards for Chinese medicinal materials of Hunan medicine, and lead the technological innovation and industrial development of Chinese medicine with the international standards of Chinese medicine. Sales channels of traditional Chinese medicine products outside the province have accelerated the process of Hunan medicine going to sea and promoted the rapid development of Hunan traditional Chinese medicine international trade.

  Liu Liang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Honorary President of Macau University of Science and Technology, and the director of the State Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine Quality Research. He has been engaged in Chinese medicine research for a long time.

The establishment of the expert workstation of Academician Liu Liang in Huaihua, Hunan is of great significance to deepening the connection between Hunan Province and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and accelerating the construction of a strong province of traditional Chinese medicine.

  Hunan is rich in resources of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine science and technology talents are prominent. The development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry has excellent resource endowment conditions and humanistic foundations.

Liu Liang said that he hopes that Hunan will further increase the cultivation of key laboratories of traditional Chinese medicine, and further support the development of characteristic Chinese medicinal materials and related products in the Wuling Mountain area represented by "Huaiwuwei" including Qingfengteng and Houttuynia cordata. Scientific research and development and brand building, perfect and extend the related industry chain, support the ISO international standard construction of "Huaiwuwei" Chinese medicinal materials and the development of international trade market.

Academician Liu Liang's expert workstation will give full play to the advantages of the team and its platform, as always, support, participate in and promote the development of the hometown TCM industry.

  With the help of academician Liu Liang’s workstation and other scientific research platforms, and guided by ISO international standards, the cultivation of high-quality Chinese medicinal materials and the production of large varieties of Chinese medicine technology have enabled Zhengqing Group to achieve great development in all aspects of planting, processing, and sales. Zhengqing Fengtongning has been continuously in Hunan Province has ranked first in the ranking of the most technologically competitive traditional Chinese medicines, and the rheumatoid arthritis drugs ranked first in the country.

  "Under the vigorous promotion of Academician Liu Liang, Qingfengteng ISO international standard has been successfully passed the defense in August this year, and it is expected to become Hunan's first ISO international standard for Chinese medicinal materials in 2022." Academician Liu Liang, Director of Expert Workstation, Zhengqing, Hunan Wu Feichi, Chairman and President of Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., said that "Huajiu Flavours" and the "Huaiwu Flavours" created by the Huaihua Municipal Government will be guided by the international ISO standards for Chinese medicinal materials to create a high-quality Chinese medicine industry chain. Promote the internationalization of Hunan's traditional Chinese medicine industry.

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