The business club reported on July 22 that "the price has risen so much recently that you have been out of line." Following the sharp increase in price of Chinese herbal medicine Ophiopogon japonicus, Codonopsis pilosula has also exploded 10 times in two years. The Daily News reporter learned from a number of pharmacies in Haikou yesterday that Codonopsis pilosicol prices have risen at least five times in one year. Recently, an announcement from the website of the National Development and Reform Commission showed that the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments and transferred some local price enforcement personnel to form an inspection team conducted a comprehensive inspection of more than 20 Chinese herbal medicine storage warehouses in Longxi, Gansu, to some Chinese herbal medicine operators. The deliberate accumulation of Codonopsis has led to tight market supply and a sharp increase in prices. The first knife was given to Dangshen.

Yesterday, the reporter learned from a number of pharmacies in Haikou that the price of the Codonopsis has quadrupled in a year. Sister Liu, a salesman at a pharmacy on Longhua Road, told reporters that Codonopsis has risen fiercely this year. First, some large codonopsis (hereinafter referred to as “Big Codonopsis”) will sell for 8 yuan or 12 yuan, while the smaller ones are called Codonopsis is sold for 3.5 yuan or 12. At the beginning of the year, the price of big codonopsis was only 3 yuan to 3.5 yuan or 12 yuan, and the half-year price increase rate reached nearly 2 times. The Codonopsis, a pharmacy in Poe Po Road, also sold for 7.5 yuan, and in the last year the price was only 4 yuan or 12.

Haikou, an owner of Chinese medicine retail and wholesale, said that the price of Codonopsis has dropped. The wholesale price of Codonopsis at “Zhongda” has dropped to 90 yuan a kilogram. When Codonopsis rose to the highest in the previous period, it had sold 96 yuan. one kilogram. Recalling the price rise of Codonopsis, Li said straight: "Amazing!" Li said that in April this year, the wholesale price of Codonopsis was only 40 yuan/kg. After May, June, and July, It has reached more than 90 yuan a kilogram. Last year, the cheapest "Zhongda" Codonopsis wholesale price was more than 20 yuan, now the most expensive time is 96 yuan / kg, within a year rose 70 yuan, more than tripled. Lee boss learned from the merchants who purchased the goods that some of the wholesalers of traditional Chinese medicines had already sold the Codonopsis wholesale price at more than 120 yuan/kg, and they were still relatively cheap to sell. If the calculation is based on more than 120 yuan per kilogram, the price of Codonopsis will have quadrupled within a year.

According to the data from the National Development and Reform Commission, 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 to around RMB 90 per kilogram in June 2011, an increase of 10%. Many times.

Codonopsis big price wholesalers have trouble saying

The above-mentioned salesman Liu Dajie said that since the price of Codonopsis rose too far, the quantity of each purchase was reduced. There are even fewer people who come to buy. "It's harder to sell now." Mr. Li said that his own life is not easy. After the price rises, many merchants who come to the wholesale market say that they are ridiculously expensive. They are afraid to sell too much. A lot of retailers are looking forward to rushing down the price, otherwise they are afraid to purchase. According to him, some time ago, as the price of Ophiopogon rose too high, due to the similar nature of Asparagus and Ophiopogon, some pharmacies took Asparagus instead of Ophiopogon.

According to industry insiders, the main reason for this rise in price is the influence of Gansu's climatic origin, which caused the production of Codonopsis, but it does not rule out the involvement of hot money. Otherwise, the price of Codonopsis will not increase so much within three months.

The Communist Party of China's Communist Party Development and Reform Commission intervened to issue tickets

The National Development and Reform Commission recently conducted investigations on the extremely high prices of Chinese medicines, and issued a fine for the operators who have co-opted the Codonopsis. The National Development and Reform Commission issued an administrative notice of price enforcement for 10 operators such as Zhejiang Southern Medicinal Materials Co., Ltd. that had coerced the Codonopsis before December 2010, and ordered them to pay no more than RMB 60 per kilogram before July 21, 2011. It sold more than 200,000 kilograms of Codonopsis ginseng to a Chinese medicine pharmaceutical company that uses Codonopsis pilosula as its raw material and has obtained GMP certification. At the same time, the company has warned 44 operators who have codonopsis since January 2011, and ordered them to sell more than 800,000 kilograms of codonopsin stored before December 31, 2011 to a proprietary Chinese medicine medicine that uses ginseng as a raw material and has obtained GMP certification. enterprise. If it fails to sell and submit valid vouchers as stipulated, it will be given an administrative penalty according to law.