Considerations and Proposals in GAP Identification and Industry of Chinese Medicinal Plants
对中药材GAP认证和产业的思考与建议

This article expounds the characteristics of the industry of Chinese medicinal plants and the importance in the inheritance of traditional cultivation technology of Chinese medicinal plants and points out that problems in the quality of Chinese medicinal plants mainly occur not in the process of their cultivation but in the processing of their prepared pieces and from adulteration in them. It also maintains that the production of Chinese medicinal plants is of a problem concerning agriculture, village and peasants, thus putting forward the proposals that the government should give its aid to every cultivation household of Chinese medicinal plants just as its subsidies to grain - producing households in the spring of 2004 instead of implementing the present measures and system of management and that a governmental agency for the management of Chinese medicinal materials should be set up, which should be in charge of registering all the enterprises and households with given technology and scale in the cultivation of medicinal plants, exercising supervision and management of them and offering them technical guidance instead of carrying out the present management measures for GAP identification of medicinal materials in a limited scope.