Laboratory Building, West Campus of Four Seasons Hospital.
The security of this building is the strictest, and all personnel entering and exiting need access cards.
In addition, security guards are required to perform "naked eye recognition". There is no other way, the simplest "automatic face recognition" function of later generations is not yet available.
Why is it so strict?
From an outsider's perspective, since there are five major laboratories here, most of the people there are foreigners, so if anything goes wrong it will become an international dispute.
In fact, only a few people know about it, because the top floor of this laboratory building has a total of 5 floors, which is where Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical’s most mysterious "drug laboratory" is located.
Yes, this is the new laboratory after the "Minglu Laboratory" was moved to Yuezhou as a whole, and the core members remain unchanged.
As Chen Xia's career develops, the small laboratory can no longer meet the needs. He can't always rely on him to take drugs from the space hospital for simple imitation, right?
This advantage can only last for 10 or 20 years, so what will happen after that?
Therefore, Chen Xia also wants to take advantage of the fact that the original capital accumulation has been completed to carry out research on new drugs and develop them completely independently.
But research on Western medicine is too expensive. Even if you spend hundreds of millions of dollars, you may not be able to succeed.
Although the Four Seasons Group is rich, it does not dare to do things so casually with a foundation of billions of dollars. After all, Pumpkin Vine Company is not listed, and the money spent is Chen Xia's personal money, not the shareholders' money.
If the new drugs under research fail one after another, it is entirely possible that the entire company's cash flow will be drained, affecting the financial security of the group.
So Chen Xia thought of the successful experience of Grandma Tu Youyou in her previous life.
Use ready-made traditional Chinese medicine, then research and analyze it using Western medicine methods, and finally introduce it to the world through industrial production.
In China, this is called "Chinese patent medicine".
In Japan, this is called "Kampo medicine".
In South Korea, they are shameless and directly call it "Korean medicine", which is not as frank as Japan.
When I say this, you may not believe it. In everyone's mind, my country is the country that invented traditional Chinese medicine, and it is certainly believed that my country is the country with the largest traditional Chinese medicine industry in the world.
But to everyone's disappointment, the world's largest exporter of traditional Chinese medicine is not China, but Japan, and the export ratios of the two sides are very different.
The international market for traditional Chinese medicines accounts for approximately US$20 billion annually, with China, Japan, and South Korea being the main exporting countries.
There are more than 200 Kampo medicine (Chinese patent medicine) factories in Japan, accounting for 80% of the market share and making huge profits.
China has nearly 5,000 traditional Chinese medicine companies, but their international market share is only 5%, which means they are almost like drinking other people's foot water.
This is a statistic that is enough to make all Chinese medicine production and sales companies in China ashamed.
After all this time, it turns out that these Chinese medicine companies are just "bullies in their own territory". The inferior medicines they produce are only for Chinese people to use.
If you have the ability to export, why not export culture and medicine? Are you scared?
For example, the Chinese patent medicine "Niuhuang Jiedu Tablets" that everyone is very familiar with was exported to Europe by a well-known domestic pharmaceutical company "TongRtang". This is something to be celebrated, right?
Before we had time to celebrate, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency found that the product contained huge amounts of the harmful toxin mercury and demanded its immediate withdrawal and destruction. Isn't that embarrassing?
This is not the first time that TongRtang Pharmaceutical has been warned by foreign countries and regions.
The Hong Kong Department of Health also issued a notice ordering the recall of a Chinese patent medicine called "Jian Ti Wu Bu Wan" produced by the group from the market because its sample was found to contain mercury five times the standard.
Then, "Niuhuang Qianjin San", "Xiaoer Zhibao Wan" and "Hemorrhoids Hemorrhoids Granules" were removed from the shelves one after another because of their serious toxic side effects.
This is just a product from a traditional Chinese medicine company, but it has encountered so many removals and warnings abroad.
So among the remaining pharmaceutical companies, how many are producing drugs in accordance with the regulations?
As mentioned before, in the pharmaceutical industry, just like the dairy industry, once your product has problems and encounters a crisis of trust, even if you try hard to correct it later, the bad impression has already been formed.
Then people will still buy your products?
Chinese pharmaceutical companies do not pay attention to product quality, do not conduct thorough research on traditional Chinese medicines, and are only focused on making quick money. This has led to a sense of distrust in Chinese exported medicines abroad.
Then this huge market was handed over to Japan, which is really sad.
If any readers don't believe it, there is another piece of data that can show the gap between China and Japan in the field of traditional Chinese medicine.
In the World Patent Database, China provides 100,000 ancient Chinese medicine prescriptions, but only 0.3% of them have been patented internationally.
Japanese Kampo medicines monopolize more than 70% of Chinese medicine patents, even South Korea has more than China.
It's amazing that the patent for the classic Chinese medicine prescription invented by our country is in the hands of someone else.
The treasures passed down by our ancestors have become a means for other countries to make profits. It has to be said that some prodigal sons are really disappointing.
Chen Xia couldn't swallow this humiliation in his previous life. After being reborn, of course he would not only fight for it but also take back the first place in the export of traditional Chinese medicine.
Well, actually he is not that great, he is just jealous of this market.
20 billion US dollars a year, which is more than 100 billion RMB when converted into RMB. Such a huge market is left to little Japan? Then why doesn't Chen Xia make this money?
In the small conference room of the laboratory.
Zheng Haisheng, Wang Yiqun, Wu Chunbo, Yang Zhenhua, Guo Wei, and Feng Xiangyang, these veteran researchers sat together and watched Chen Xia take out various Chinese patent medicines from his big backpack.
Zheng Haisheng scratched his head a little: "Xiao Xia, what are these?"
"This is a folk remedy for treating snake venom that I brought from the Northeast. These are all medicinal herbs, some for external application and some for internal use. I've seen it with my own eyes, and it's absolutely effective."
Zheng Haisheng was embarrassed: "But, we all studied Western medicine engineering, and we are not very good at Chinese medicine."
Several other people nodded in agreement. Chinese medicine and Western medicine each have their own systems.
In the 1990s, when compound Chinese patent medicines were not yet popular, Chinese medicine was Chinese medicine and Western medicine was Western medicine, so they were a bit separated.
Chen Xia smiled and said:
"I want you to use Western medicine research and development methods to study these Chinese medicinal materials. For example, this herb is called 'Chrysanthemum'. What are the specific ingredients that work? What are the beneficial and harmful ingredients to the human body?
In addition, what is the therapeutic dose, what is the toxic dose, what are the side effects, etc., all of these need to be studied clearly. Then, if these Chinese medicines are mixed together, will there be any adverse reactions and toxic side effects?
Next, your work focus will gradually shift to traditional Chinese medicine. This snake medicine is the first one to be researched, so you can practice. I will collect more prescriptions and secret recipes later, and your workload will increase."
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