'One Belt, One Road' | Trade with hot herbs

Pharmaceutical Network November 22 hearing the first three quarters of this year, China's import and export of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces amounted to 997 million US dollars, down slightly 3.03% over the same period last year, during which Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces of different styles of import and export trends, China Along with the Belt and Road initiative, the trade achievements of Chinese herbal medicines and pieces in the country are impressive. The areas along the Belt and Road will become an important target market for the internationalization of Chinese traditional medicine.

In the first three quarters, the export volume of Chinese herbal medicines and Chinese medicinal herbs pieces was 161,200 yuan, which is different from the price increase of Chinese herbal medicines and pieces in 2016. From January to September this year, Ton, an increase of 8.06% over the same period of last year; the average export unit price was US $ 4.91 / kg, down 16.18% over the same period of last year; the export amount was US $ 791 million, down 9.42% over the same period of last year.

Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces exports to the dual-use or nourishing varieties, the top ten export varieties (in terms of amount) for the Chinese wolfberry, cinnamon and cinnamon flowers, ginseng, red dates, Poria, Pinellia, Cordyceps, Angelica, Codonopsis And American ginseng.The top ten varieties accounted for 40.90% of the total export volume, accounting for 42.36% of the export value (see Figure 1).

It is noteworthy that this year, China's exports of ginseng suffered a severe winter, the amount of exports, exports, the overall decline in export prices over the past decade, the Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces single species exports list, ginseng has been steady From the first three quarters of this year, exports, ginseng exports fell to third place ranking.From January to September, 1181 tons of ginseng exports, a decrease of 18.37%; the average export price of 49.99 US dollars / kg, significantly lower year on year 31.81%, even lower than the same period five years ago (ie 2012); the export volume was USD59,059,600, down 44.38% YOY. Among the top ten export categories, ginseng was the one with the largest year-on-year decline in exports.

Over the years, China's ginseng annual export volume of about 2,000 tons (see Figure 2) .2009 ~ 2014, ginseng export prices soaring, the export volume showed a downward trend year on year .2014, ginseng export prices peaked, reaching 113 US dollars / kg, exports fell sharply to 1,228 tons .After that, ginseng export prices plummet .1616, the average price of ginseng exports in 2014 dropped by 37% compared with the peak level in 2014, but exports recovered to 2,000 tons, showing the amount of Increase in price minus the trend of the first three quarters of this year, exports of ginseng even more optimistic, showing the trend of price volume down.

From 2013 to 2014, the export price of ginseng rose most rapidly. From 2014 to 2015, the average export price of ginseng was above USD 100 / kg (RMB 600-700 / kg at the prevailing exchange rate). This three-year hot market stimulus to increase cultivation area, during the cultivation of ginseng will be in 2017-2019 a large number of listed, so nearly 3 years, ginseng export situation is not optimistic.

However, the downward price range of ginseng will not be too large for two reasons: firstly, the gap between the export price of ginseng and the cost of ginseng production will be further narrowed. Taking the 5-year-old raw ginseng as an example, the current production cost is about 270 yuan / Kg, plus a reasonable profit, the sales price of at least 300 yuan / kg (about 45 US dollars / kg), planting operators may be willing to sell .This price and the current export price is relatively close, so the future price drop Space is very limited. Second, planting forest resources available forest resources are limited and more stringent forest land management policies, Daejeon ginseng temporarily yet to become mainstream, so the next few years ginseng production capacity will not have much room for growth, the market supply capacity is limited. The properties of both ginseng herbs and new resources of food, the strong domestic and international market demand.So, ginseng exports in the spring is not too far away.

Cordyceps exports strong rise in the first three quarters of this year, Cordyceps exports of 716 kg, an increase of 54%; average export price of 26,866 US dollars / kg, up 53.98%; export value of 19,236,200 US dollars, an increase of 137.06%. Cordyceps the first three quarters of this year Of exports last year, 1.7 times the annual export volume (see Figure 3), and the first three quarters of this year's exports basically similar to the 2012 export situation.

2009 ~ 2010, China's annual exports of Cordyceps sinensis in more than 2 tons, once China's exports of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces ranked the top three varieties.With the rapid rise in the export price of Cordyceps sinensis, exports dropped sharply .2011, Cordyceps exports The volume plummeted to 1255 kg; 2012 ~ 2016, annual exports of Cordyceps sinensis about 600 kg, the proportion of total exports of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces further reduced, fading out of the top ten varieties of export list. Cordyceps most China The major export markets are Hong Kong, China and Japan. The sharp increase in exports in the first three quarters of this year was mainly due to the sharp increase in imports from China and Macao. The import volume in Hong Kong and Japan in China also increased by more than 20%.

In the first three quarters, nearly 85% of Chinese herbal medicines and pieces were exported to Asia (see Figure 4). Among them, the top five markets in Asia Amount) are Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan.

In the first three quarters of this year, there were 1,043 enterprises exporting Chinese herbal medicines and pieces, including 868 private-owned enterprises, accounting for 83.2% of the total export volume, accounting for 70.1% of the total export volume. These are the major exporters of Chinese herbal medicines and pieces, followed by foreign-funded enterprises and state-owned enterprises And individual industrial and commercial households.But noteworthy is that the first three quarters of private exports fell 17.4%, state-owned enterprises increased 37.2% year on year; private enterprises average exports of 640,000 US dollars, the average state-owned enterprises exports 1.39 million Yuan, the export scale and competitiveness of private enterprises still need to be further enhanced.

From January to September this year, China imported 68,900 tons of Chinese herbal medicines, an increase of 13.66% over the same period of last year; the average import price was 2.99 U.S. dollars / kg, up 17.05% over the same period of last year; the total amount of imports was 2.06 One hundred million US dollars, an increase of 33.04%.

The first three quarters of China's top ten varieties of Chinese herbal medicines imports (in terms of amount) for the longan meat, American ginseng, velvet, frankincense, myrrh and blood, saffron and ginseng (see Table 1). These ten varieties of imports Accounting for 92.54% of China's total imports of Chinese herbal medicines in the first three quarters, accounting for 93.41% of the total imports, of which the import of precious and fine varieties showed strong growth while the imports of ginseng highlighted the embarrassment of the industry.

In the first three quarters, the import of four kinds of precious and fine varieties of American ginseng, velvet, saffron and ginseng increased strongly. The imports of pilose antlers and saffron rose nearly 300% over the same period of previous year. The imports of the four varieties accounted for the first three quarters of Chinese herbal medicines Imports of 41.79% of the total amount of your kind imports increased sharply the amount of imports of Chinese herbal medicines in the first three quarters of the average import unit price, which led the prices of velvet antler high domestic velvet, while the price of imported velvet far lower than the price of domestic antler is to stimulate the antler Import surge in the important reasons.

The average import price of ginseng was US $ 357.97 per kg, a sharp increase of 188.08% over the same period of last year. The import volume increased by 152.35% over the same period of last year mainly due to the great contrast between the exports of Korean ginseng and the domestic exports of ginseng (see Table 2) China's ginseng industry embarrassment.To reverse this contrast, from an industry level, the domestic goods should be self-reliance; from the consumer level, the concept of consumer change, to establish confidence in domestic products is particularly important.

In the first three quarters of this year, the import and export volume of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces in the "Belt and Road" region was 115,800 tons, an increase of 25.30% over the previous year, accounting for 50.35% of the total trade volume of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces in the first three quarters of this year. 'The import and export volume of Chinese medicinal herbs and Pieces reached 319 million U.S. dollars, up 35.1% over the same period of the previous year, accounting for 31.95% of the total trade volume of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces in the first three quarters of 2009. China's trade growth rate to Herbal Medicine and Pieces is far higher in the Belt and Road region In our country, the growth of trade in Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces around the world has rapidly risen in the trade of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces in the Belt and Road area.

In the first three quarters of this year, China exported a total of 54,700 tons of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces to the 'One Belt and One Road' region, an increase of 39.07% over the same period of last year; the export volume reached 206 million U.S. dollars, up 48.38% over the same period of 2007. The top ten varieties (in terms of amount) The exports of the top ten varieties accounted for 55.37% of the total exports of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces in the "Belt and Road" region. The export volume of the top 10 varieties of Chinese cabbage and cinnamon flowers, Chinese wolfberry, poppy seeds, chrysanthemum, red dates, angelica, Codonopsis, ginseng, berberine,

In the first three quarters, China imported 611,100 tons of Chinese herbal medicines from the Belt and Road area, up by 15.10% over the same period of last year; its import volume reached 112 million U.S. dollars, up 16.03% over the same period of last year. The top ten imported varieties are longan, crocus, The import of varieties accounted for 97.32% of China's imports of Chinese herbal medicines in the Belt and Road region.

In the first three quarters of this year, the top 10 countries that trade in Chinese herbal medicines and cutlets in the 'One Belt and One Road' region are Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Iran, Singapore, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The trade volume of Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces accounts for 87.99% of the total volume of trade in Chinese herbal medicines and Pieces in the Belt and Road region.

China is the largest in the world Chinese medicine Production and Consumer Markets, ''health China's 2030 'Program "," Traditional Chinese Medicine Law "and" One Belt and One Road, Chinese Medicine Development Plan (2016-2020) "provide a favorable policy environment for the development of the Chinese medicine industry. The domestic market has huge demand and space for development, China's ability to allocate resources on a global scale has been increasingly enhanced Medicinal herbs It is an effective supplement to domestic resources. China is expected to further increase the amount of imported medicinal materials from all over the world. Some domestic enterprises will upgrade from 'imported' to 'go out' and directly invest in and build medicinal bases abroad to ensure the demand for raw materials.

In terms of exports, the demand for edible or nourishing medicinal materials in the international market has been increasing year by year. Affected by the fluctuation of domestic medicinal materials (such as the new listing of most medicinal herbs), the export of Chinese herbal medicines and pieces will continue to increase in the short term In the long run, as the second largest economy in the world, China's influence in the world is increasing day by day. The full implementation of the 'One Belt and One Road' initiative will greatly promote China's medicine Culture, internationalization of Chinese medicine products, globalization.