YUNFU, China, Jan 6 (Bernama-AsiaNet) —
South China Medicine plays an important part in the traditional Chinese medicine industry. To continuously promote South China Medicine to the whole country and the world, the 4th Guangdong South China Medicine Industry Conference will be held in Yunfu, Guangdong province from January 4th to 6th, 2025.
With a long planting history and profound heritage of South China Medicine, Yunfu enjoys the reputation as “the hometown of South China Medicine”, “the hometown of Chinese cinnamon” and “the hometown of traditional Chinese medicine processing”. At the same time, it is the largest cinnamon producing area in China. Yunfu is up to the task of establishing the Germplasm Resource Bank for Traditional Chinese Medicine of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS). There are 1,152 species of medicinal plants, of which 58 are planted on a large scale, with a planting area of more than 900 square kilometers. The industrial clusters have taken shape, and Yunfu is accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system of traditional Chinese medicine (South China Medicine).