Chinese Plant Extracts Market Analysis

At present, herbal extracts industry of China has formed a certain scale. There are more than 200 professional production enterprises, many companies of Chinese medicine and chemical industry, and other production enterprises also produce herbal extracts. The number of domestic herbl extract manufacturer is a lot, but only a few are influential in the international market, most of them of are the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of plant extracts branch member, they are located in some provinces where are rich in herbal, technical resources and transportation convenience.

1. Fujian

Fujian relying on numerous hilly topography, there are a wide range of herbs, at the same time, the advantages the coastal provinces are facilitated to the prosperity of international sea and air transportation, what’s more, good policies, the lacation advantage of closing to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, etc. formed a important trade and export base of herbal extracts in China. Among them, the B&K Technology Group (China) Co., Ltd. uses the advantages of various regions, established herbal extract production and raw material supply logistics bases in a virous of places, has become a well-known and integrated manufacturer and exporter of herbal extracts, natural food colors, natural preservatives and other food additives, health care products, pharmaceutical equipment (supercritical Co2 fluid extraction equipment), and other services of natural products. The enterprises in this region have unique advntanges that deserve our attention.

2.Jiangsu&Zhejiang

It’s know to all, Jiangsu&Zhejiang are the big Provinces of medicine, Ginkgo biloba and fungal extract is the more influential products in these two provinces. The area formed a group of foreign trade companies who have a greater impact in the herbal extract industry, they bring big convenience to the small and medium-sized herbal extract manufacturer who don’t have the import and export lisence.

3.Shanxi Province

Shanxi Province is rich in natural resources, there are many herbal extrct manufacturers in provinces, around more than 30. The competition is biggest in this province. Main products are: 5 - THP, St. John’s Wort extract, silymarin and Citrus aurantium extract, etc. Overall, the herbal extract companies of Shanxi Province entered the plant extracts industry earlier, they have effection to the whole herbal extract industry in a certain extent. Locating in western China, more cheap labor resources, and the region is rich in herbal resources, their products are competitive.

4.Hunan

The leading products of plant extracts in Hunan are: green tea extract, Grosvenor Momordica Fruit extract (Momordica grosvenori), licorice extract, catechin monomer and Theanine, Echinacea extract, Siberian Ginseng extract, Reishi Mushroom, Schisandra, soy isoflavones, red clover extract, ginger extract and so on. The region's manufacturers have stronger competitiveness, they play an indispensable and important role.

5.Sichuan

The main products of Sichuan's herbal extract manufacturers are soybean extract, Epimedium, Rhodiola, Citrus aurantium extract, green tea extract, This region is in southwestern China, is one of the more influential herbal extracts supplying bases. Sichuan is a famous medicine province in China and even over the world, its very rich in medicinal plants, the development of enterprises have unique conditions that deserve our attention.

6.Yunnan and Guangxi region

Major products in this region: PNS(Panax Notoginsenosides), Breviscapine, bergeninum, artemisinin, and other products. Guilin city is one of the major production bases of Mangosteen extract.

7.Other regions

In addition, Beijing is one of the region of the nation's largest production base of licorice products, also produces some of the market potential products such as lutein, Ginkgo biloba extract, Rhodiola Rosea (Salidroside); Tianjin is one of the biggest production areas of grape seed extract. Wuxi is larger base which is primarily devoted into production and study of green tea extract, the production and research of Chinese medicine prescription proportion herabl extracts in Guangdong are at the international leading level.