To prevent new Chinese herbal medicines from accumulating and speculating

The National Development and Reform Commission’s Price Supervision and Inspection Department recently stated that it will warn shippers suspected of illegally hoarding Chinese herbal medicines, and severely punish those who refuse to make corrections to prevent new hoarding and hype, and strive to maintain the normal market order for Chinese herbal medicines.

This statement of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is aimed at the dramatic increase in prices of Chinese herbal medicines since last year. Taking the price of Codonopsis as an example, since the second half of 2009, the price of Codonopsis has been rising all the way, rising from about RMB 9 per kilogram in August of that year (the EC goods) to about RMB 90 per kilogram in June 2011, an increase of 10 times.

To this end, recently, the National Development and Reform Commission price supervision and inspection division together with the relevant departments to form an inspection team, investigated and dealt with operators such as Zhejiang Southern Medicinal Materials Co., Ltd. hoarding codonopsis caused the price increase behavior, to these enterprises openly warned, implement the three limits, that is, the time limit The price is limited to the sales targets, and they are ordered to sell their codonopsis ginseng at a price of two-thirds of the market price, ie, no more than 60 yuan per kilogram, in one week. All of them are sold to CPT Pharmaceuticals, which uses Codonopsis pilosula as raw material and GMP certification. enterprise.

It is understood that at present, the three-limits requirement has been implemented and the 200,000 kilograms of Codonopsis that have been seized have been sold to qualified Chinese pharmaceutical companies for a limited period of time at a price level that does not exceed the limit. The market price of Dangshen also declined correspondingly, with a drop of more than 10%.

In the next step, the National Development and Reform Commission will continue to follow over 800,000 kilograms of codonops that were seized and monitored this year, and ensure that the Dangshen will be sold to CPT Pharmaceuticals that use Codonopsis as a raw material and obtain GMP certification before the end of the year to further increase market supply. , Stable market prices.