The Bozhou Chinese Medicine Market Opened to Welcome Visitors in the Year of 2025

On the morning of February 15, the 18th day of the first lunar month, Bozhou City held the opening ceremony of the Bozhou Chinese Medicine Market for the year of 2025 at the west square of the Professional Bozhou Chinese Herbal Medicine Market and the east square of the Bozhou Chinese Herbal Medicine Commodity Trading Center.

At the opening ceremony, the municipal government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the National Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine to jointly promote the construction of key projects such as the Hua Tuo Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum. Forty representatives of the Chinese medicine industry swore in the spirit of merchants from Bozhou. Before the opening ceremony, a ceremony to honor and welcome Hua Tuo was held, expressing respect and gratitude to the renowned doctor Hua Tuo through rituals such as offering incense, presenting wine, and dedicating the four major Chinese medicine of Bozhou.

Over the past year, Bozhou has deeply implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important exposition on the work of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and made every effort to promote the modernization, industrialization and internationalization of TCM, with the size of the modern TCM industry reaching 210.26 billion yuan, an increase of 11.9%. Also, in Bozhou, the planting of Chinese medicines is of excellent quality, the manufacturing of TCM has gathered momentum; the trade scale of Chinese medicines is enormous. Furthermore, the 40th International (Bozhou) TCM Expo has been held in Bozhou consecutively, the secretariat of the TCM Industry Cooperation Council of RCEP has permanently settled in Bozhou, and the express delivery volume of health-preserving flower tea has reached 620 million pieces, ranking the 1st in the country in terms of single product. In addition, Bozhou has been approved as a national pilot zone for the inheritance and innovation of TCM, a national pilot city for digital TCM, a national standardized pilot city for the service industry, and a national Postal Express hub city, significantly enhancing the city’s visibility, reputation, and influence. In recent years, the state has issued Opinions on Promoting the Inheritance and Innovative Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other important documents, and the provincial party committee and provincial government have given Bozhou a major mission to build the world capital of TCM. Bozhou will seize the opportunity to take advantage of the momentum, inherit the essence of TCM while adhering to innovation, and synergistically develop the traditional Chinese medicine and food industry as a source of health, and herbal beauty industry. It aims to build a high-quality Chinese herbal medicine market and fully create a world capital of TCM, a national highland for the TCM industry, and a “bridgehead” for TCM to enter the international market. Bozhou will provide a better environment and better services to help the majority of enterprises to invest with confidence, concentrate on entrepreneurship, development securely and live comfortably in Bozhou, and jointly promote the high-quality development of TCM, so that TCM can better benefit the health of mankind.