Opening of 2023 Bozhou Medicine Market

February 8 was the 18th day of the first lunar month. In the morning of that day, the opening ceremony of 2023 Bozhou Medicine Market was held in the west square of Bozhou Chinese Herbal Medicine Professional Market.
At the opening ceremony, 30 representatives of pharmaceutical companies swore the spirit of Bozhou Pharmaceutical Business. Ten people, including representatives from the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings Co. Limited, China Beijing Tongrentang (Group) Co., Ltd., and Bozhou pharmaceutical enterprises, stroke the gong to start the market opening ceremony. Before the market opening ceremony, a ceremony was held to praise Hua Tuo, and after the rituals of offering incense, wine and the four Bozhou medicines to Hua Tuo, the reverence and gratitude to the proficient doctor Hua Tuo were expressed.
Bozhou is the hometown of Hua Tuo and the important birthplace of traditional Chinese medicine culture. The cause of traditional Chinese medicine has been passed down from generation to generation, and the reputation of the world capital of traditional Chinese medicine has spread far and wide. Bozhou has a deep cultural gene, with a history of cultivating herbs for more than 1800 years and a cultivation area of 10% of the country; Bozhou has many pharmaceutical enterprises and developed pharmaceutical industry, which is the largest production base of traditional Chinese medicine tablets, traditional Chinese medicine extracts and traditional Chinese medicine health drinks in China, with a scale of traditional Chinese medicine industry reaching RMB 166.41 billion, which has a solid industrial foundation; Bozhou has a large number of pharmaceutical merchants and a prosperous pharmaceutical market, with thousands of pharmaceutical companies, 100,000 pharmaceutical companies and millions of pharmaceutical farmers in Bozhou. The number and sales of herbal tea companies both account for more than 70% of the national total.
Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government clearly support Bozhou to build the capital of traditional Chinese medicine in the world and become a "bridgehead" for traditional Chinese medicine to enter the international market. Based on the requirements of modernization, industrialization and internationalization, Bozhou will seize the high ground, break into the new track, and seize new fields to promote the standardization of cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines, the clustering of deep processing products such as Chinese herbal extracts, formula granules, and proprietary traditional Chinese medicines, and the diversification of business models such as herbal tea and health tourism, and build six major centers of Chinese herbal medicine cultivation, pharmaceutical manufacturing, innovation and R&D, circulation and trade, health and wellness, and cultural inheritance, etc. In order to accelerate the construction of the world capital of traditional Chinese medicine, Bozhou will contribute its wisdom and strength to construct a healthy China and a healthy Anhui. With the most optimal environment, the best policy and the highest courtesy, Bozhou will communicate widely and cooperate deeply with friends from all walks of life to seek the development of Chinese traditional medicine and share a healthy and beautiful new life.