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46.Tianjin: China's industrial and technological base for the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine
http://www.tj-summerdavos.cn 2014-09-08 19:49

If people boil several herbs with water in a ceramic-like casserole and then sift the ingredients with a piece of gauze, they will get a dark tea, which is called decoction of medicinal ingredients by the Chinese and is a cure to illness very familiar to ordinary Chinese people. Now, China’s technologists are applying modern methods to transform ancient-old techniques. They extract active ingredients from herbs, process them and make them into traditional Chinese medicinal drop pills, tablets and injections, which are easy to take and more effective in some cases.

As the biggest and veteran industrial city in North China, Tianjin takes the lead in this field in the country. Tianjin has had 880 traditional Chinese-medicinal drugs proved by State Food and Drug Administration, competent to make 26 types of Chinese medicaments including drop pills, tablets and injections. It owns 50 types of protected traditional Chinese medicines. There are 218 types of Chinese medicines registered for overseas sales, 118 types of which are registered as drugs.

The Chinese Government has nominated Tianjin as the National Technological Industrial Base for the Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A number of institutes have been established successively, including State-level Drug Metabolism Major Laboratory, Tianjin Research Center of Newly-Developed Drugs, Tianjin Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Technological Engineering Center for the Modernization of Chinese Medicine, Quality Management Center for Modern Chinese Medicine and two state-level enterprise technological centers, whose research centers on the safety evaluation of newly-developed drugs have been granted GLP accreditation. A technological innovation system of the modernization of Chinese medicine is taking shape.

Achievements have been made in the research and development of some important techniques concerning the modernization of Chinese medicine. More than 20 important techniques are now widely applied in Chinese medicine enterprises, including three-phase fluidized bed, supercritical fluid extraction, membrane technology, film coating, nano and molecular distillation. Moreover, research has been carried out concerning the technique optimization and quality standard of 80 Chinese medicine fluid and tablet drugs. There is a data base for the chemical reference standards of 200 Chinese-medicinal drugs, and more than ten GAP Chinese-medicinal herbs bases.

Tianjin also established two modern Chinese medicinal industry parks of Tasly and Tianjin Zhong Xin Pharmaceutical Group Corp., and carried out systemic exploitation of twenty major Chinese-medicinal categories successively. Besides, the city promotes the second exploitation of major Chinese-medicinal products based on the principle of modernization and internationalization. The number of single drug items, which have a sale volume of more than 100 million yuan, has now increased to five.

However, the modernization of Chinese-medicinal drugs is just taking off. Japan and South Korea took the lead in this area and China only occupies less than ten percent of the market.

The expectation of the National Technological Industrial Base for the Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine is to improve the modern logistics of Chinese-medicinal drugs, information, variety, industry and technological R&D, to expedite the modernization and internationalization of Chinese-medicinal drugs, to develop a number of modern Chinese-medicinal categories, and to cultivate modern Chinese medicinal industry groups with strong innovative competence and high industrial intensiveness.

Till the year of 2010, Tianjin will have established a sophisticated Chinese-medicinal innovative system, constructed 50 standard Chinese medicinal plantations, completed the exploitation and the second exploitation of 20 modern Chinese medicinal drugs and there will be two types of modern Chinese-medicinal drugs entering the main-stream international pharmaceutical market. Two groups with more than 10-billion-yuan assets will be created, with a modern Chinese-medicinal zone covering the functions of modern Chinese-medicinal logistics, modern Chinese-medicinal production and technique exchange, modern Chinese-medicinal export, Chinese-medicinal information exchange and Chinese-medicinal culture exchange.

 
Source:Enorth.com.cn

Editor: Zhang Jialu
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