Health Care Products Play "Plant Battle",Plant Extracts Exports Rise

Statistics show that in the first quarter of 2013 plant extractsexports as much as $330 million,accounting 47% of the Chinese traditionalmedicine merchandise exports.For many years,the United States has been thefirst place for plant extracts in our country exports.

It is understood that plant extracts industry is a sunrise industryof rapid development,in the field of traditional Chinese medicine of China's export,plant extracts developped quickly in recent years,export growth ismuch higher than traditional Chinese medicinal materials. It's all related tofavor more and more countries began to nutritional health product.

In America,for example,in the United States and China traditionalChinese medicine trade,the main part is the extract of exports to the UnitedStates in our country.China's exports to the United States is the largestplant extracts products,licorice extract including liquorice extract,licoriceproducts such as glycyrrhizic acid salt.Nutritional health products consumermarket size in the United States,and this market is growing at 20% a year,andis influenced by factors such as farmers grow habits and production cost,theproduction of medicinal plants can meet the demand of the production of only25%,the rest of the API is rely on imports.

Plant extracts of China after entering the international market,thepart for local plants as medicine or dietary supplements,some may also beprocessed into higher value-added "foreign Chinese medicine" back todomestic sales."As plant extracts of Ginkgo health products,both at home andabroad are now gradually began to be popular,Germany develops very fast inthis aspect,some enterprises annual amount of ginkgo biloba raw materialprocessing 800 tons."One industry observers said.

But the industry also pointed out that in the emerging field ofplant extracts health care products,domestic and foreign enterprises foughtfierce hand-to-hand combat,and the advantages of Chinese and foreign is verydifferent."A lot of foreign giants have advantages in technology and patent,because Chinese traditional medicine products or sensitive,while foreigncompanies can often in the extraction and separation technology,productfunction mechanism and safety evaluation went before him,this is a majordisadvantage of domestic drug firms.But the Chinese medicine enterprises inour country has a "right" advantage,it is a pity that at presentChinese medicine enterprises in foreign countries "stage mode" or isnot easy."He said.

By Grant