Yinzhou organizes a group to help with the development of traditional Chinese medicine industry in Yanyuan

"As long as the quality of the medicinal materials planted meets standards, we will buy as many as you plant," said Zheng Cheng, Executive Vice General Manager of the Ningbo Sales Center, Zhejiang Int'l Group on April 21 while visiting a traditional Chinese medicine base in the Jinshan Village, Yanyuan County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, promoting production and sales cooperation with the base on the basis of existing medicinal material procurement orders. 

The traditional Chinese medicine base in the Jinshan Village has an altitude of 3,100 meters and covers an area of 3,000 mu. Over the past five years, local prosperity leader Yangri Muzi has led surrounding farmers to explore here, planting various medicinal materials such as dipsacus asperoides, fritiLlaria, polygonatum sibiricum, costus root, rheum palmatum, eucommia ulmoides, Paris polyphylla, and rhodiola rosea, with excellent quality. However, due to factors such as water and electricity supply and road transportation, the planting and transportation conditions of the base have been unable to keep up with market demand, thus subsequent development of the industry is facing multiple constraints. 

Two years ago, Zhu Yefeng from Yinzhou, taking up provisional post in Yanyuan, took the initiative to go up the mountain to investigate and arrange assistance funds after learning about the situation of the traditional Chinese medicine base, helping to build a 3-kilometer industrial road for the base, thus having shortened the mountain journey by one hour, and coordinated with departmental institutions to provide water and power to the base, having solved the urgent need for the development of the base. In order to assist the development and growth of the traditional Chinese medicine base, Zhu Yefeng also took the initiative to contact and communicate with traditional Chinese medicine companies such as the "Int'l" and "Mingbeitang", etc., so as to find stable major customers for the sales of the base's medicinal materials. 

During the traceability inspection of medicinal herbs on that day, Zheng Cheng, together with expert Sun Caihua from the Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, had detailed exchanges with the responsible person in charge of the base and local farmers, inquiring about existing problems, providing planting tips and sales ideas, with the purpose of guiding the development of the base. 

We fear not only that we can't plant well, but also that the plants can't be sold well. The 'expert team' has not only sent us technologies, confirmed the order for the high-yield medicinal herb of dipsacus asperoides, but also provided a new sales direction for those small amount of minority medicinal herbs. We are now quite rest assured," Yangri Muzi is very confident in the development of the base, "we plan to expand 2,000 mu of land in addition to the existing 3,000 mu, so as to encourage surrounding farmers to plant medicinal herbs together, helping them to increase income and become rich at their doorstep."

"In counties in the western region lifted out of poverty, supporting industrial development is of utmost importance in rural revitalization. As cadres providing assistance, we should do a good job in providing point-to-point assistance after discovering bottlenecks hindering industrial development, communicating to open up sales channels, injecting the necessary strength into local industrial development." Zhu Yefeng said.