Promote Development of Industries of Chinese-cultivated American Ginseng by New and High Technologies Used in Modern Agriculture
应用现代农业高新技术 推动国产西洋参产业的发展

Zhao Shoujing(Institute of Special W ild Economic Animal and Plant Science of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science s(CAAS),Jilin,132109)American ginseng,called"Huaqi "ginseng also a nd a rare medicinal pla nt,is a native of the United States of America and Cana da.Introduced into China in 1975it has now formed a large productive scale ,mainly in the Changbaishan mo untain area in JiLin Province of China.Owin g t o the concerted efforts and combin ed tackling of key scientific issues by the C hinese researchers concerned and t he application of high and new technologies o f modern agriculture,some major breakthroughs have been achieved in the fields of cultivation techniques and the development of products in American ginseng,a nd a regional structure of its industry has already been formed in the Changbais han mountain area,t hus giving an impetus to the development of American ginsen g industry in china.In th is paper a thorough exposition is mad e in regard of how to use high and new techn ologies of modern agriculture in Ame rican ginseng 's planting,scientific re-search,GAP base construction,the d evelopment of medicinal and health -care products and marketing so that a sci-entific basis for the formulation of different standards of American gin seng produced in Chi na and the develo pment modes of characteristic industries is pro vided.