China's 2015 export value of Chinese herbal medicine accounted for 2% of the international market

The Second Congress of Chinese Medical Sciences, co-hosted by the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party Central Committee and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was held in Beijing recently. It was learned at the congress that in 2015, the proportion of China's Chinese herbal medicine exports fell to 2% of the total international market.

The theme of the Second Congress of Chinese Medical Sciences was “National Essence Traditional Chinese Medicine, Healthy China”, aiming to jointly discuss how to further improve the policies and mechanisms for the development of traditional Chinese medicine, and to tap, develop and make good use of traditional Chinese medicine as a unique health resource.

⟦NL> “Traditional Chinese medicine, as a unique health resource of our country, has huge development potential and can play a big role in the building of a healthy China.” Wang Guoqiang, deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission and director of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that China should vigorously develop service industries such as traditional Chinese medicine health preservation and healthcare, traditional Chinese medicine medical treatment, traditional Chinese medicine distinctive rehabilitation, traditional Chinese medicine health elderly care, traditional Chinese medicine culture and health tourism, and vigorously promote the development of the traditional Chinese medicine big health industry.

Statistics show that in 2001, China's Chinese herbal medicine export value accounted for only 3.6% of the total international market, and in recent years this share has continued to decline. He Zhichao, executive president of the Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners in the United Kingdom, said that in recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has developed rapidly in Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand and other countries, and the development of China's traditional Chinese medicine industry is facing pressure from being pushed back.