The price of traditional Chinese medicine is "skyrocketing" rumors that it is not true that the price of traditional Chinese medicine is accompanied by the price.

There is little difference in the price of medicinal materials of the same quality in the Anguo traditional Chinese medicine market.

Stimulated by the sharp rise in the price of traditional Chinese medicine a few years ago, the planting area of a large number of varieties of traditional Chinese medicine has expanded, so that the market of traditional Chinese medicine is faced with the problem of overcapacity. in addition, in recent years, a large amount of money in the industry has entered the market to hoard medicinal materials, which will take several years to digest, leading to a depression in the overall market and a low market.

Recently, a rumor about the "skyrocketing" price of traditional Chinese medicine has been hyped. The initial cause was that during the two sessions this year, some members of the CPPCC were worried about the rising prices of traditional Chinese medicine, saying that the cost of prescribing traditional Chinese medicine was constantly rising. in the past, a dose of medicine for colds and coughs cost only 2-3 yuan, but now it costs about 50 yuan. it is also pointed out that the increase in the price of Chinese medicinal materials is the main reason.

In this regard, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily went to Hebei Anguo, which is known as the "drug capital," and found that at present, the formation of the market price of traditional Chinese medicine mainly depends on the relationship between supply and demand, and there are not many factors of artificial speculation. The price of traditional Chinese medicine in the distribution center is stable, and there is no single product plummeting and rising.

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"Weekly Market" is printed into a volume of 8 yuan.

Anguo City, Hebei Province, one of the largest distribution centers for traditional Chinese medicine in China, is a county-level city with a population of only 400000. It is located about 250km south of Beijing. It is only a three-hour drive from the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway.

A bluish-gray archway with the words "Millennium Medicine Capital" has become a landmark to enter Anguo City after getting off the highway. After entering the urban area, there are all kinds of shops on both sides of the road covered with the names of traditional Chinese medicine, such as "rhubarb", "forsythia", "camphor", "Chenxiang", "Ophiopogon" and so on, and some logistics companies are mixed with them. there is still some distance from the traditional Chinese medicine trading center market, you can smell bursts of mixed medicinal materials floating out. The market opens before 11:00 in the morning, and in the afternoon it is a busy time for the staff of the logistics company.

Outside the market of Hebei Anguo traditional Chinese Medicine Trading Center, a poorly printed pamphlet called "Weekly Market" is sold for 8 yuan each, which contains the price and rise and fall data of one or two hundred kinds of traditional Chinese medicine in 10 days. The peddler said, "it can't be cheap. Some people can recycle it if it can't be sold out." Many foreign suppliers or purchasers will first buy a copy to learn about the market situation of medicinal materials.

Mr. Sun, the owner of a traditional Chinese medicine store from Northeast China, told Beiqing Daily: "this kind of 'behavior form' is of some use. If the price of Fuzi medicine is too high, if it increases by 20%, we will not buy it first, and those who drop the price will buy more." But it still depends on whether the goods have been smoked or not and where they come from, and there will be some differences in prices. "

Boss Sun also said that because of the large number of shops, the prices here are relatively transparent, "looking for more inquiries" is the secret not to buy expensive.

Market price

The price of traditional Chinese medicine follows the market.

The vendors in the market of Anguo traditional Chinese Medicine Trading Center are particularly talkative, holding out medicinal materials from snakeskin bags and showing them to past buyers, telling that Chinese herbal medicines are "new goods of origin" or "cut well" to attract customers.

Ms. Wang, a broker who has worked in the Anguo market for five years, said: "the price of traditional Chinese medicine follows the market, and it is also expensive to take goods when the price goes up. There is little difference in the selling price of medicinal materials of the same quality."

When we encountered an epidemic a few years ago, individual items such as Radix Isatidis and Honeysuckle soared, and the boss who had stock made a lot of money. However, this situation will usually plummet because of the end of the epidemic, regulated by market supply and demand, growers expand their acreage, and supply increases in the coming year. For example, in April 2013, after the claim that "Radix Isatidis was included in the prevention of human infection with H7N9 bird flu" was denied, the price of Radix Isatidis fell back to 14-19 yuan per kilogram compared with that before the epidemic; in September 2014, the price was stable at 15-18 yuan per kilogram; now, the price is about 14-20 yuan per kilogram.

Price

There is no "crazy rise" in Chinese medicine as a whole.

During a field visit to Anguo, Hebei Province, a reporter from Beiqing Daily found that the price of traditional Chinese medicine, as the main raw material of traditional Chinese medicine, did not show any sign of "skyrocketing" as a whole, only the prices of individual medicinal materials fluctuated greatly, some rose in that year, and some fell in that year, and the market is changing every week. Take Banlangen as an example, the price of unified goods (that is, products of some grades and specifications) sold by many merchants is about 20 yuan / kg, which has not changed much compared with the previous year.

The relevant person in charge of the China traditional Chinese Medicine Association said that traditional Chinese medicine belongs to agricultural products, and the price mainly depends on three major factors: first, mainly due to changes in supply and demand, market pricing is still the most important factor, in the event of a major epidemic, or an increase in export orders may lead to a sharp rise in individual products. Second, there are distribution centers of traditional Chinese medicine such as Chengdu in Sichuan, Yulin in Guangxi, Bozhou in Anhui, Anguo in Hebei, etc., and the 200 index of medicinal materials collected locally can be used as a factor for merchants and buyers to refer to the transaction price; third, the attribute of traditional Chinese medicine is still agricultural products, its purchase of seedlings, artificial production costs rise, the sale price does not rise is impossible.

Jia Haibin, deputy director of the traditional Chinese Medicine Information Center of the China Association of traditional Chinese Medicine, has said that stimulated by the sharp rise in the price of traditional Chinese medicine in previous years, the planting area of a large number of varieties of traditional Chinese medicine has expanded, so that the market of traditional Chinese medicine is facing the problem of overcapacity. In addition, in recent years, a large amount of money in the industry has entered the market to hoard medicinal materials, and these inventories take several years to digest, leading to a depression in the overall market and a decline in the market.

Jia Haibin predicts that as the varieties of traditional Chinese medicine prices that should fall in 2014 have dropped, the power of the short factor has been released to a certain extent, which is good for the index in 2015. There is little chance that the market of traditional Chinese medicine will fall sharply again in 2015, and it is expected to stabilize and pick up in the second half of the year.