The Historical Evolution of the Southern Drug Capital of China

Cinnamomum camphora has a long history as the largest distribution center of medicinal materials in China, with a history of over 1800 years.

Since ancient times, there has been a reputation of "medicine is not unified and medicine is ineffective". Ge jujube hill in the suburbs of the town is a natural medicinal field, stretching for more than 200 miles, with lush vegetation and rich medicinal materials, including animal and plant medicinal materials and mineral medicinal materials 100. As early as the Jian 'an period in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoist Zhang Daoling and Ge Xianweng practiced here. On the one hand, they are superstitious about preaching and exorcising evil spirits, on the other hand, they collect medicines and alchemy to treat diseases and teach them how to make them. Later, Ge Hong, the grandson of the Ge family, summed up his medical experience and wrote "Emergency", which was spread all over the world.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, camphor tree pharmaceutical industry developed day by day, and the number of drug collectors and drug sellers increased day by day. Drug stores, drug stores and branch stores are gradually emerging and expanding to other provinces.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were three palaces (namely Wang Yao Temple) built here. Every year, on April 28th, the birthday of Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, a trading place is set up near the temple, where drug dealers from all walks of life gather to trade.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there were more than 200 Chinese medicine shops in Zhangshu. At the same time, drug dealers from other provinces also came here to open pharmacies and even set up associations. It has gradually become a distribution center for medicinal materials.

Up to now, there are still many well-preserved blast wells, medicine washing pools, ancient temples and medicine halls in China. Zhangshu people have collected and processed Chinese herbal medicines for generations, and mastered many secret recipes, which are unique in frying, soaking, soaking, baking, drying, cutting and storing. The tablets cut by excellent chemists are "as thin as paper, can be blown up, have uniform cross section and beautiful shape", and have good color, fragrance, shape, taste and effect.

Pharmacists, pharmacists and drug dealers of Cinnamomum camphora traveled all over the country, collecting and purchasing high-quality raw materials and transporting them back for processing, making Cinnamomum camphora's medicinal materials complete in variety and excellent in texture. Therefore, Cinnamomum camphora has become the production, processing, processing and management center of Chinese herbal medicines in China. The formation of "drug capital" is closely related to its rich medicinal resources and expertise in planting, processing, transportation and storage, in addition to superior geographical conditions and developed waterway transportation. There are more than 200 kinds of natural medicinal materials in jujube hill, and the world-famous Fructus Aurantii and Fructus Aurantii Immaturus are one of the local specialties.

Cinnamomum camphora is local and has strict requirements on the quality of medicinal materials. Medicinal materials must be pure, and the processing of decoction pieces should be fine. Today, "Wang Yao Temple Fair" has developed into an annual national medicinal materials exchange meeting. Once an invitation is issued every year, pharmaceutical colleagues from Hong Kong, Singapore and all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China flock to us.

At that time, camphor tree will become the world and ocean of medicine. On the wide terrace outside the East Gate of Duyao, a magnificent building complex dedicated to trading activities has sprung up, with a total area of over 15000 square meters, which can accommodate more than 10000 people for trading activities at the same time.

Cinnamomum camphora, the capital of medicine, is famous in ancient and modern times and China. According to historical records, Zhangshu Pharmaceutical began in the Han and Jin Dynasties and was established in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Prosperous in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was called medicine market in Wu and medicine wharf in Song Dynasty. In the Qing dynasty, it was called the gathering place of Sichuan and Guangxi herbs in the north and south. Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a beautiful spread of drugs that are not unified and ineffective. After nearly half a century of ups and downs, Zhangshu Medicine Expo has been successfully held for 43 sessions.

1958 10 menstrual period was approved by the state, and the first national camphor tree exchange meeting after liberation was held in Qingjiang Hotel, Zhangshu Town, Qingjiang County. Participants 100, with a turnover of 654.38+500,000 yuan. 1958- 1965, * * held 10 camphor tree national medicinal materials exchange meeting, with more than 5000 participants and a turnover of more than 500 million yuan. After ten years of civil strife, all trades and industries are dying, and the Zhang Hui Expo is hard to escape, which has suffered an unprecedented impact. It has been closed for 16 years.

1980, camphor tree national medicinal materials exchange meeting resumed in 16. In June of that year, the 11th National Medicinal Materials Exchange Conference was held in Zhangshu, showing the elegance of the contemporary medicine capital. This exchange meeting combines Chinese and western medicine, mainly focusing on Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese patent medicine, western medicine and medical equipment. There are 104 1 unit, representing 2673 people, and more than 7000 varieties have been sold, with a turnover of124.39 million yuan.

The Zhang Hui Fair in 198 1, 12 is unprecedented. Except Taiwan Province Province, all provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and 13 ethnic minorities are represented.

1982, in order to adapt to the development, the Qingjiang county party Committee and county government decided to open a new medicinal materials trading market. The newly-built 10-storey Du Yao Hotel is the first medicinal materials trading market, with a building complex with more than 25,000 square meters of auxiliary facilities and a trading hall that can accommodate 5,000 people at the same time. This trading market can accommodate more than 10000 participants, with more than 2000 booths and more than 200 exhibition halls. 1988 12, Qingjiang county to set up a city. The Municipal Party Committee decided to cancel the Zhangshu Working Committee and set up the Zhangshu Medicine Administration to undertake the daily work of revitalizing Zhangshu Medicine City, the drug capital, and the annual national medicinal materials exchange meeting.

1989, taking Du Yao building as the main body of medicinal materials trading, a new building complex of15,000 square meters was built, with more than 200 exhibition halls and more than 2,000 booths, which can accommodate more than 8,000 people. During the session, the first trading market and the second trading market can be integrated, and at the same time, 20 thousand people can be accepted to negotiate business and trade medicinal materials in the venue. 1989 The transaction amount of the 20th Cinnamomum camphora Fair exceeded 10 billion yuan for the first time, which showed the strong vitality of Cinnamomum camphora market after the reform and opening up. Since then, the number of participants, exchange varieties and transaction amount of the annual drug fair have soared, ranking first among the three major drug fairs in China.

In 1990s, with the spring breeze of reform, the national ethnic medicine industry changed with each passing day, and the Zhang Hui Expo reached a new high every year. 1993 the number of participants in the 24th pharmaceutical fair exceeded 30,000, and the turnover exceeded1300 million yuan, which was unprecedented. Since the resumption of the Zhang Hui Fair in 14, the cumulative number of participants has exceeded180,000, and the turnover has exceeded 9.2 billion yuan, ranking first among the three major pharmaceutical markets in China (Zhangshu in Jiangxi, Anguo in Hebei and Baiquan in Henan). 199510 June 18, the 26th camphor tree national medicinal materials exchange conference was grandly opened. More than 800 pharmaceutical groups, companies, pharmaceutical factories and drug dealers from all over the country and Singapore and other countries gathered in the first and second trading markets of Du Yao Hotel and Du Yao Building for a warm and fair meeting. Among more than 7000 varieties on display, there are more than 1000 new special drugs. The trading of the conference lasted for six days, and the transaction amount exceeded 654.38+0.5 billion yuan, still ranking first among the three major medicinal materials exchanges in China.

During the period of 1998, the participants of the 29th National Medicinal Materials Exchange Conference of Zhangshu were concentrated and grew steadily. There are more than 3,000 pharmaceutical factories and drug dealers, with more than 30,000 people. Active trade, more than 5,000 kinds of medicinal materials and 0/800 kinds of Chinese patent medicines/KLOC-,forming a situation in which medicinal materials and finished medicines coexist and medicines and medical devices are equally important; The total turnover of the conference exceeded 654.38+06 billion yuan. The number of participants and the transaction amount of the 30th drug fair of 1999 to the 32nd drug fair of 200 1 hovered between the above-mentioned drug fairs.

With the development of camphor tree pharmaceutical industry, camphor tree plans to build a new professional market of Chinese herbal medicines with high grade, large scale and complete hardware facilities. The first phase of the new market project is adjacent to the layout of 105 national highway, covering an area of 500 mu. The new market was basically completed in 2002. In the same year 10, the specialized market of new Chinese herbal medicines became the main venue of the 33rd national medicinal materials (medicines) fair in Zhangshu. New venues, new facilities and new look welcome more old and new friends. The Zhang Hui Fair is full of businessmen, showing great vitality. More than 3,500 factories and businessmen attended the meeting, with about 35,000 representatives. The venue was full and the medicine was fragrant everywhere. Well-known pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical wholesale enterprises and pharmaceutical equipment manufacturing enterprises all participated in the exhibition, showing their elegance. The business exhibition center with a building area of 8,000 square meters in the market center is the highlight of the main venue. More than 160 international standard booths of 3×3 square meters were arranged on the first floor of the center, and all exhibitors from all over the country sold out. More than 800 medicinal materials marketing booths set up outside the center have also been snapped up by manufacturers and private drug dealers. The whole venue was active in trading, with more than 8,500 varieties exhibiting, among which new and special medicines accounted for 36% of the total number of medicinal materials and medicines, which was the same as in previous years. The number of pharmaceutical machinery manufacturers and varieties participating in the meeting has increased compared with previous years, especially the emerging health-care and body-strengthening drugs. The turnover of this fair exceeded 65.438+0.55 billion yuan, close to the highest level in history. With the development of exhibition economy, drug fairs are surging everywhere, and nearly 100 drug fairs are held every year in major cities across the country. This is a great challenge for several traditional drug fairs that lack geographical advantages.

The 34th Zhangjiao Pharmaceutical Fair in 2003 and the 35th Zhangjiao Pharmaceutical Fair in 2004 were under pressure and stuck to the position of the traditional pharmaceutical fair in a difficult situation. The Zhangshu Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government are determined to reform, so that the Zhangshu Fair will make innovations every year, make breakthroughs in the next session, and always maintain a prosperous face.

In 2005, the Zhangshu Expo ushered in a beautiful spring. This year, the Cinnamomum camphora Trade Fair was hosted by the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government for the first time and hosted by the Zhangshu Municipal People's Government, which greatly improved the specifications of the Cinnamomum camphora Trade Fair and was called the beginning of the transformation of the Cinnamomum camphora Trade Fair. The 36th Pharmaceutical Expo is a national pharmaceutical fair held in Jiangxi under the background of thoroughly implementing Scientific Outlook on Development, vigorously implementing the main strategy of opening to the outside world and accelerating the rapid rise of the pharmaceutical industry in the province. Through the joint efforts of provinces, municipalities and municipal governments, coordinate and do a good job in related work. This year's Zhang Hui Expo has gathered many merchants, which is an unprecedented event. "Higher level, larger scale, more popularity and better effect" has become the remarkable feature of Zhang Hui Expo. This year's Zhang Hui Fair is rich in content and full of drama. In addition to organizing traditional large-scale medicinal materials (medicines) fairs, an investment promotion meeting was also held to promote and sign economic cooperation projects. All districts and cities in the province organized groups to hold economic and trade talks and 30 investment projects. At the meeting, the contract was signed, and the contract fund was more than RMB1500 million. At the same time, a forum on the development of Chinese medicine industry was held, and academicians of the National Academy of Engineering were invited to give lectures to discuss the development of camphor tree and the pharmaceutical industry in our province. In addition, there are large-scale related activities, such as special cultural performances. The Zhangshu Pharmaceutical Expo hosted by the provincial government can fully tap the potential, constantly upgrade the exhibition brand, promote the Chinese patent medicine and biomedical industry in our province to become bigger and stronger as soon as possible, make the Zhangshu Pharmaceutical Expo a drug capital, and promote Jiangxi. Everbright pharmaceutical, expand investment; Make it a first-class professional, market-oriented and standardized national medical event.

The 37th Zhang Hui Expo in 2006 has written a new chapter. This year, Zhang Hui Expo invited CCTV's "A Song" to Zhangshu, and the Millennium medicine has played a chapter of the times. The "One Song" special large-scale singing party "Walking into the Drug Capital Zhangshu" performed and spread the drug capital culture, which added luster to the Zhang Hui Fair and made the delegates feel endless passion and excitement! This big move is unprecedented in the history of Zhang Hui Fair and other exhibitions all over the country, which not only improves the popularity of camphor tree, the "drug capital", but also makes Zhang Hui Fair create more glory! In 2009, the opening ceremony of the 40th National Zhangshu Pharmaceutical Fair and the launching ceremony of Jiangxi Zhangshu Station of "Chinese Medicine China Tour" were held in Du Yao Square, Zhangshu City, the only county-level city selected in the development of "Chinese Medicine China Tour" in Jiangxi Province. The series of activities of "China Zhangshu Station of Traditional Chinese Medicine", including launching ceremony, popular science propaganda, expert free clinic, health lecture hall, and training for community and rural doctors, have become a highlight of this year's Zhangshu Expo. 20 1 1 During the 42nd Zhang Hui Fair, Dong 'e Ejiao Co., Ltd. and other nine pharmaceutical companies also established the "High-end Club of Pharmaceutical Brands" and held the "China Pharmaceutical Brand Summit Forum" with the theme of "The Future of OTC under the New Medical Reform". More than 200 representatives from companies, pharmacies and chain pharmacies attended the meeting. The delegates spoke freely and expressed their opinions. It is of great significance to actively explore ways to promote brand building and seek industry development in the pharmaceutical field for promoting strict self-discipline of pharmaceutical enterprises, standardizing orderly competition in the pharmaceutical industry and enhancing the overall competitiveness of the pharmaceutical industry. Therefore, the activities of the academic part of Zhang Hui Fair are more abundant and effective.

For many years, the Zhang Hui Fair has been held at the same time and place every year. Dozens of drug production and circulation enterprises, health care products production and marketing enterprises and Chinese herbal medicine processing and operation enterprises in Zhangshu actively participated in the related work and activities of Zhangshu Fair with the spirit of ownership, which made the scale and popularity of Zhangshu Fair last forever, and the Zhangshu Fair also became an "evergreen tree" of medical exhibitions. With the participation and support of all medical colleagues, Zhangshu National Drug Fair has made gratifying achievements. Among them, it embodies the attention and care of leaders at all levels, and shows the entrepreneurial spirit of drug owners to forge ahead and keep pace with the times; It also reflects the enthusiastic support and participation of friends in the national pharmaceutical industry.

20 13 was a historic year for Cinnamomum camphora, and the 44th National Medicinal Materials Fair was supported by the Ministry of Commerce. China association of traditional chinese medicine officially awarded Zhangshu "China Medicine Capital"