On September 28, the "2022 Licorice and Products Industry High-quality Development Seminar" hosted by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medical and Health Products (hereinafter referred to as the Medical Insurance Chamber of Commerce) and hosted by the Licorice and Products Branch was successfully held in the form of online live broadcast. About 2,000 officials from the Ministry of Commerce, the State Forestry and Grass Administration (National Endangered Species Import Administration Office), the Embassy of Uzbekistan in China, Chinese and foreign industry experts and business representatives attended the meeting. Meng Dongping, Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice president of the Medical Insurance Chamber of Commerce, Ji Hao, chairman of the Licorice and licorice Products Branch of the Medical Insurance Chamber of Commerce, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

The meeting was co-chaired by Liu Yan, Deputy Director of Chinese Medicine Department of China Medical Insurance Chamber of Commerce, Secretary General of Licorice and Licorice Products Branch, and Akomalikhan Alimukhanov, First Secretary of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in China. Liu Hongyang, Director of Textile Department of Foreign Trade Department of Ministry of Commerce, Nurkin Mamazanov, Economic and Trade Counselor of Embassy of Uzbekistan in China attended the meeting. Yuan Liangchen, Director of Plant Department of Animal and Plant Protection Department of State Forestry and Grass Administration (National Endangered Species Import Administration Office) was invited to make a keynote report. From Peking University School of Pharmacy, Institute of Beauty and Cosmetics, Uzbekistan Association of Licorice and other Medicinal plants production and processing organizations and other topics delivered speeches on licorice and licorice products import and export policies and regulations, new research results, distribution and market opportunities of licorice resources in Central Asia, and application of licorice products in the field of cosmetics.

Distinguished Guest Speech

Director LIU Hongyang introduced the foreign trade situation and policy, the basic situation of foreign trade of TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine and the bidding situation of licorice. He pointed out that at present, China's foreign trade is facing challenges such as the slowdown of global trade growth and the decline of demand in major markets. The State Council has carried out multiple rounds of deployment and issued a series of policies to help enterprises tide over difficulties and create conditions for the development of foreign trade. The fundamentals of Chinese medicine import and export are sound, higher than the national average growth rate of import and export. The Ministry of Commerce has always paid attention to the development trend of licorice industry and the demands of enterprises, especially in licorice bidding, carefully listened to the opinions of enterprises, and introduced relevant policies, which significantly reduced the comprehensive cost of enterprises and improved the competitiveness of licorice and products enterprises.

In his speech, Secretary Meng Dongping said that due to the impact of the epidemic, the global economy is facing challenges and pressures, the trajectory of market operation and people's lifestyles and health concepts are changing, and advocating natural, green and healthy has become a new trend worldwide. The market demand for traditional medicines such as licorice, which are based on natural plant origin, has increased, providing space for industrial development and international cooperation. She said that as the largest producer and exporter of licorice and its products, China has a solid foundation for industrial development and broad prospects. With the innovation and development of information technology and the continuous improvement of research and development level, various active ingredients of licorice are being deeply mined, and the application scope is more and more extensive. In addition to medicine and food, the application of licorice products in the field of cosmetics is also gradually increasing, and the addition of plant source ingredients in cosmetics has become a new trend.

Meng said that the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Traditional Medicine Industry Alliance", which was jointly launched by the Chinese and foreign industry communities earlier this month, will further promote the exchange and mutual learning of traditional medicine and industrial cooperation development among the SCO countries. Licorice will be one of the important contents of cooperation between our country and relevant SCO countries in the field of traditional medicine.

She introduced the new progress in the certification of endangered medicinal plant species that the Chamber has been working on since last year to promote a coordinated solution.

Ji Hao, chairman of the speech on the current situation of licorice industry development described. He pointed out that licorice products have been widely used in medicine, daily chemical, food, veterinary medicine and feed industries around the world. The global licorice industry chain is undergoing profound changes. The licorice resources advantages of relevant SCO countries, especially in Central Asia, complement each other's advantages in production technology and market application of licorice industry in our country. We look forward to promoting the sustainable development of licorice industry chain through joint efforts of all parties.

Distinguished Guest Speech

Yuan Liangchen, Director of Plant Division, Department of Animal and Plant Protection, State Forestry and Grass Administration (National Endangered Species Import Administration Office)

Topic: Protection and Management of Endangered medicinal plants

Director Yuan Liangchen made a report on the protection and management of endangered medicinal plants, and introduced in detail the legal basis and management methods of the endangered medicinal plants list. With vivid cases, he explained in detail the system of Import and export Commodity Catalogue of Wild Animal and Plant Species, the system of permit import and export certificate, and the certificate of Non-Import and export Commodity Catalogue of Wild Animal and Plant Species.

Professor Ye Min, School of Pharmacy, Peking University

Topic: Licorice innovation Research and development progress

Professor Ye Min shared the latest research results of Licorice by combining the approaches of modern Chinese medicine research and the methods of multi-component Chinese medicine research. Professor Ye pointed out that the current basic research of licorice is still relatively weak, and there is an urgent need to strengthen basic research to identify breakthroughs and realize industrial upgrading and high-quality development.

Li Hui, Secretary general of Plant Extracts Branch of China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medical and Health Products

Speech title: Analysis and Market Forecast of Chinese Herbal Medicine Import and Export in 2022

Secretary GENERAL LI HUI INTRODUCED THE IMPORT AND EXPORT OF Chinese MEDICINAL MATERIALS AND pieces IN THE past ten years, as well as the import and export trend of Chinese medicinal materials this year, the characteristics of import and export large varieties and the trend of overseas markets. From January to July 2022, the export value of Chinese herbal medicine and decanting pieces was 810 million US dollars, an increase of 6.1% year-on-year, and the export of Chinese herbal medicine is expected to reach 1.4 billion US dollars for the whole year.

Beauty industry Yan research institute analyst Di Zhenfei

Speech title: Consumption trend of licorice ingredient cosmetics online market in 2022

Di Zhenfei introduced the general situation of the application of licorice ingredients in skin care products, analyzed the market development of licorice ingredients and the consumption trend characteristics of licorice ingredients products, and summarized the effect trend, category trend and concept trend of licorice ingredients cosmetics. She pointed out that the number of licorice ingredients registered products and brands increased steadily in 2022, the online market size of licorice ingredients increased, domestic brands were more favored, and licorice ingredients had a broad application prospect in cosmetics and skin care products.

Introduction of licorice resources and industry in Uzbekistan

Akomalihan Alimukhanov, First Secretary of the Economic and Trade Department of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in China, welcomed all the participants on behalf of the Uzbek side, thanked the Chamber of Health Insurance for its efforts in organizing the seminar, and introduced the representatives of Uzbek enterprises participating in the meeting. Akomalikhan Alimukhanov said that China and Uzbekistan have carried out all-round and multi-level economic and trade cooperation under the framework of the SCO and achieved remarkable results. In the field of licorice industry, both China and Uzbekistan have a profound industrial foundation and broad development prospects, and are important participants in the world licorice trade. Licorice enterprises in Uzbekistan are willing to actively carry out further trade cooperation with China and jointly promote the development of global licorice trade.

Murat Gepov, chairman of the Association of Organizations for the Production and Processing of licorice and other Medicinal Plants of Uzbekistan, elaborated on the laws and regulations, investment framework, capacity potential and export of licorice and its products in the licorice industry of Uzbekistan, and showed the collection, primary processing and warehousing logistics scene of licorice by Uzbek enterprises.

In addition, AGROLICOR GROUP, BMB TRADE GROUP, BUHARA SOLODKA SYSTEM, MANGIT AMU BRIKET, KARAKALPAKBOYAN JS from Uzbekistan Representatives of five licorice export enterprises introduced their general situation and related business respectively, and expressed their willingness to seek economic and trade cooperation with Chinese enterprises.

This seminar on the high-quality development of licorice and its products industry has built a smooth channel and gathered the wisdom of multiple parties to explore the internationalization of licorice industry, tap international market opportunities, promote deeper economic and trade exchanges and cooperation between China and Uzbekistan, and strive to improve the new advantages of licorice industry in the international market competition, providing new possibilities for future cooperation between China and Uzbekistan in licorice industry.