On the afternoon of July 14, Wei Zhaohui, Secretary of CPC Huaihua Municipal Committee, presided over a symposium on the construction of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) industry chain. She emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on traditional Chinese medicine, fully implement the deployment requirements of the CPC provincial committee and provincial government of Hunan, leverage resource endowments, focus on key areas, accelerate the creation of the "Southern China Traditional Chinese Medicine Valley”, and strive to promote the growth, strengthening, and excellence of the traditional Chinese medicine industry. He Zunqing, Deputy Secretary of CPC Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Municipal Political and Legal Committee, and municipal leaders Li Weilin and Xiang Rulian attended the meeting.
The meeting reported on the development of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) industry chain. Representatives from ten companies, including Hunan Zhengqing Pharmaceutical Co., Hunan Huai Ren Group, Butian Group, Jingzhou Guoling, Huaihua Zhenghao Pharmaceutical Co., Hunan Wuxi Pharmaceuticals Co., Hunan Dongxiang Rhizoma Polygonati Co., Xinhuang Peilin borneol Co., Huaihua Zhongxin Agricultural Industry Co., and Huaihua Neptunus Health Technology Co., spoke about the current state of industry development, pharmaceutical research and development, challenges faced, and suggestions for extending, supplementing, and strengthening the industry chain.
Wei Zhaohui pointed out that TCM is a treasure of Chinese civilization, an important support for building a healthy China, and a strategic sunrise industry and a wealth-generating industry for Huaihua to promote comprehensive rural revitalization and high-quality development. In recent years, the CPC municipal committee and government of Huaihua have attached great importance to the TCM industry, promoting its development with a positive trend of continuous expansion in scale, continuous extension of the industry chain, accelerated brand building, and steady improvement in efficiency. However, it is also important to recognize that the industry still faces weakneses such as an incomplete industry chain, less than strong leading enterprises, insufficient technological innovation capabilities, insufficient brand influence, and insufficient depth of industrial integration. Targeted measures and breakthroughs must be implemented to further advance the development of the TCM industry.
Wei Zhaohui emphasized the need to "strengthen the foundation”, focusing on improving seed and seedling breeding, promoting standardized and regulated planting, and establishing a number of high-quality seed breeding bases, ecological planting demonstration bases, and customized medicinal herb gardens to ensure the quality of medicinal materials from the source. She also stressed the importance of strengthening the quality traceability system and solidifying the "first workshop" of the industrial chain. Furthermore, she emphasized the need to "address weaknesses”, promoting the upgrading of local enterprises from small to large-scale and the tiered growth of listed companies. She called for targeted investment attraction by precisely targeting the top 100 companies and leading enterprises in the industry, vigorously developing deep-processed Chinese medicinal herbs, supporting startups to share production lines, promoting the clustered and collaborative development of processing enterprises, and enhancing the value level of the industrial chain. Finally, she stressed the need to "activate vitality”, building platforms for scientific and technological innovation, leveraging platforms such as the Academician Liu Liang’s Workstation, collaborating with institutions such as Hunan University of Medicine and Xiangya Medical College of Central South University to tackle core technologies, strengthening local talent cultivation, deepening university-enterprise collaboration, breaking through a number of "bottleneck" technologies, and empowering the transformation and upgrading of the industrial chain. We must emphasize "brand building", strengthening the regional brand of "Huaihua Medicine”, cultivating independent brands for enterprises, regularly holding TCM production, supply, and sales matchmaking events, encouraging enterprises to participate in domestic and international TCM exhibitions and expos, implementing a centralized procurement and cultivation plan, and enhancing the competitiveness of the industrial chain. We must also emphasize "integration", adhering to the "TCM+" development concept, promoting the deep integration of TCM with cultural tourism, ethnic medicine, healthcare, and health services, enriching experience scenarios, and expanding the development space of the industrial chain.
(Translated by Le Guobin)