[Explanation] Stepping into the medicinal material planting base in Niujiayingzi Town, Haraqin Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the fragrant scent of medicinal herbs is rushing to the nostrils, and the medicinal materials all over the mountains and plains are growing gratifyingly.

On August 10th, the 2nd National High-quality Development Conference of Chinese Medicinal Materials (Mongolian Medicinal Materials) Industry was held in Karaqin Banner. Pharmacists from all over the country came here to place orders for medicinal materials.

  [Concurrent] Hebei pharmaceutical merchant Liang Fengkui

  The medicinal materials of Karaqin Banner are of good quality and unique soil quality, and are deeply welcomed and loved by us. This time I came to purchase, and it is expected to purchase more than 500 tons.

  [Explanation] According to local conditions, the local Niujiayingzi Town has a history of more than 300 years of planting Chinese and Mongolian medicinal materials, and is known as "the hometown of Chinese northern ginseng and Campanulaceae".

Today, the medicinal materials planting, processing and other related industries here have become the pillar industries that drive farmers' income.

  [Explanation] Local farmer Yu Rong has been associated with medicinal materials for more than 50 years. The medicinal materials company he founded covers a variety of functions such as planting, deep processing, and product trading. The annual output value exceeds 100 million yuan, which not only helps the surrounding medicinal farmers "bring goods", but also drives Employment of local farmers.

  [Concurrent] Yu Rong, General Manager of Rongxingtang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

  The annual output value through our company should be more than 100 million yuan, driving more than 5,000 local farmers to engage in planting (medicine work), and arranging employment for more than 10,000 people.

  [Explanation] In Karaqin Banner, there are 25 medicinal material cultivation enterprises like Yu Rong, in addition to 226 individual industrial and commercial households and 274 professional cooperatives, distributing more than 100 kinds of medicinal materials every year, and 25 kinds of dried and fresh Chinese medicinal materials. tons.

Not only that, after the local people "get rich" by relying on medicinal herbs, they have sowed the "seeds of getting rich" all over the country.

  [Concurrent] Ma Jianmin, a villager in Niujiayingzi Town, Karaqin Banner

  I am Ma Jianmin, a villager in Niujiaying Town. I planted more than 100 mu of Atractylodiscensus in Jianping, Liaoning Province. After 3 years of planting, the benefits were considerable. The people followed me and planted more than 1,000 mu of land.

  [Explanation] In addition, the local medicinal material industry in Haraqin has also begun to transform and upgrade, and is moving towards high-quality development.

The Inner Mongolia-China-Mongolia Medicinal Materials Standardization Eco-Industrial Park, which is under construction locally, has a planned total area of ​​about 1,000 mu. It is a comprehensive industrial demonstration park integrating production and processing, product trading, warehousing and logistics, leisure tourism, health care, scientific research and training.

  [Concurrent] Wang Xian, Director of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau of Haraqin Banner

  Haraqin Banner will make full use of the advantages of the main producing areas of authentic medicinal materials, and will focus on building a whole industrial chain of traditional Chinese medicinal materials that integrates seed and seedling cultivation, medicinal material planting, production and processing and medicinal material trading.

  [Explanation] The fragrance of medicine in the "Medicine Township outside the Great Wall" drifts for thousands of miles.

Today, the medicinal materials of Haraqin Banner not only go to the whole country, but also go abroad. They are exported to South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries, and are deeply loved by domestic and foreign drug dealers.

The official of Karaqin Banner stated that the next step will be to promote the transformation of local medicinal materials to the diversified and refined direction of "TCM Mongolian medicinal materials +" research, practice, education, tourism, and food, so as to promote the overall upgrading of the traditional Chinese medicine and Mongolian medicinal materials industry as soon as possible.

  Reported by reporter Chen Feng and Chifeng

Responsible editor: [Liu Pai]