The “natural sea of medicines” in Chongqing Wuxi in the area of local medicinal herbs exceeded 400,000 mu

On the evening of November 23, Wuxi County of Chongqing Municipality held a press conference on the development of 2023 Chinese herbal medicine industry. At the meeting, the main person in charge of Wuxi County People's Government introduced that up to now, the area of in-place herbs in the county has exceeded 400,000 mu, and the output value is expected to reach 1.28 billion yuan this year.

It is understood that Wuxi County is located at the junction of the three provinces and cities of Chongqing and Shaanxi Province, known as the “natural sea of medicine”. Existing medicinal value of the real estate of 2932 kinds of Chinese herbs, of which 320 kinds of commonly used herbs, the number of varieties is the first in Chongqing.

In recent years, Wuxi has identified “one main and two auxiliary” leading industries, namely, the baked fish-based prepared dishes industry, the traditional Chinese medicine industry, mainly to live alone, the eagle tea-based leisure products industry, and set up a Chinese herbal medicines industry development headquarters, the Chinese herbal medicines industry as a key industry to build.

The person in charge said, at present, Wuxi County has a certain planting scale of 36 varieties, of which, Yunmuxiang, Codonopsis pilosula, Houpu, Duhu, cypress, eucommia, 6 varieties of the area of tens of thousands of acres. At the same time, after nearly two years of development, the existing two Chinese medicine tablets processing enterprises in full production, the annual processing capacity of more than 10,000 tons, breaking the nearly 15 years witch has no Chinese medicine deep processing enterprises passive situation.

It is reported that the next step, Wuxi County will focus on the Taoist medicinal herbs base source species germplasm resources protection, the establishment of seed seedling nursery base, product traceability system and Taoist medicinal herbs gene bank; the implementation of high-standard farmland renovation, improve the water and fertilizer integration supporting the origin of the primary processing and warehousing facilities, to create a standard production base of the Taoist medicinal herbs; “Wuxi live alone” “Daning Codonopsis” and other brands as a guide to accelerate the cultivation of ‘Wuxi too since the mother-of-pearl’ and other major varieties of organic product certification, to carry out the development of medicinal food with product development and brand cultivation.

“It is expected that by 2025, the county has built three seedling breeding bases of authentic Chinese herbal medicines, annual processing and sales of 25,000 tons of Chinese herbal medicines, the county's Chinese herbal medicines industry in the ground area stabilized at more than 400,000 acres, the comprehensive output value of more than 1.5 billion yuan, and strive to 2027, the Chinese herbal medicines in the ground area of 500,000 acres, the total output value of the Chinese herbal medicines industry exceeded 2 billion yuan. “The negative table said.