Since he wants to make good use of this characteristic of ginseng, Qi Zheng has made an understanding of the domestic ginseng industry. Look.Mao.Line.Chinese.Text.Net

It turned out that the domestic ginseng industry can really only be described in one word now - miserable!

The three northeastern provinces of China are the main ginseng producing areas, accounting for about 70% of the world's ginseng production.

With the well-known medicinal value of ginseng and the internationalization of the Chinese herbal medicine market, ginseng has also become an important foreign trade product in the international market and an important commodity for China's export to earn foreign exchange.

However, although China is a large ginseng producer, it is disproportionate to this, and China is a small country in the ginseng industry.

The total output value of ginseng in the world is about 30 billion yuan, but China only accounts for 1.2 billion yuan of it, less than 4 of the world's total output value, and the difference between output and output value is more than 20 times.

In order to trace the source, Qi Zheng came to Ji Province, the largest ginseng producing area.

The temperature gradually cools down with the beginning of autumn, which should be the "golden season" for ginseng production and marketing, but here it is a gloomy cloud.

"This year, the purchase price of ginseng has plummeted, and there is no end in sight, and most ginseng farmers have suffered huge losses. A ginseng farmer said to Qi Zheng with a sad face.

"Many buyers have signed purchase contracts with us in advance, but now after the price plummeted, they have broken the contract, and now they can't sell if they want to. The ginseng farmer wanted to cry without tears.

He told Qi Zheng that ginseng cultivation requires a huge amount of planting costs, and under this year's situation, some ginseng farmers have gone bankrupt, and there have even been suicides due to the inability to repay the ginseng debts.

"Now the lowest price of ginseng (i.e., freshly harvested fresh ginseng) is only 6~7 yuan per catty, which is simply selling ginseng as a radish! If you sell it at this price, it must be a huge loss; if you don't sell it, the price is still falling, and I don't know where the end is?" The ginseng farmer looked depressed and sighed. See 1 yarn 3 Chinese net

Qi Zheng visited a number of ginseng growers, and it was all dark.

In this process, Qi Zheng met Boss Wang, who had been in the ginseng business for many years.

He told Qi Zheng a lot of inside stories about the collapse of ginseng prices.

"What's more, those so-called buyers who broke the contract are actually the agents of Japanese and South Korean participating giants in China! These are all a group of traitors, and they are the ones who directed the price crash this time. Boss Wang angrily condemned those peers.

They first paid a small deposit to sign a procurement contract with ginseng farmers, and then in this year of a bumper harvest of ginseng, they broke the contract under various pretexts such as excessive heavy metals, pesticide residues, tariff adjustments, etc., and sold the reserve ginseng to the market at a low price, creating the illusion of a large surplus of ginseng, artificially lowering the price of ginseng, and causing the price of ginseng to plummet. ”

"Look at it, through the ginseng agents installed in China, Japanese and South Korean participating companies will definitely secretly purchase high-quality ginseng raw materials at low prices after the price of ginseng falls to the freezing point, and sell them all over the world after refining them to make huge profits!"

Boss Wang blushed and waved his hand thickly, "To put it bluntly, we just fell into the conspiracy of Japan and South Korea to participate in the company!"

It turned out that due to the lack of effective supervision of the domestic ginseng market, foreign participating enterprises were to impact the domestic ginseng market through hoarding, selling, acquisition and other means to suppress the Chinese ginseng industry; at the same time, they took advantage of the purchase of domestic high-quality ginseng raw materials at low prices, and made ginseng an important resource for obtaining high profits through ginseng intensive processing technology and brand packaging.

Boss Wang further told Qi Zheng that if you compare it horizontally with South Korea, about 2,000 tons of ginseng flow to South Korea at a very low price every year in China and be used as raw materials, and then after returning to China from South Korea, ginseng becomes a gift with a very high price.

A 100-gram bottle of Korean ginseng costs several hundred yuan, and the ginseng exports from Kyrgyz Province are more than 20 times that of South Korea, but the foreign exchange earned is only one-tenth of that of South Korea.

"As far as I know, South Korea has more than 40,000 acres of Korean ginseng cultivation, which is only a quarter of the ginseng planting area in Kyrgyz Province. However, it has obtained cheap ginseng raw materials from China for a long time, and then obtained high industrial returns. Boss Wang pointed out that more than one-third of the raw materials of South Korean ginseng products come from ginseng in Kyrgyzstan Province.

Qi Zheng was speechless for a moment after listening.

The pattern of a large output but a small industrial country reminds him of the situation of China's rare earth industry.

Rare earths are to China what oil is to the Middle East and iron ore to Australia.

However, when the Middle East and Australia firmly grasped the pricing power of oil and iron ore and enjoyed huge profits, China's rare earths were not able to enjoy the high profits brought by the monopoly position, on the contrary, some of the domestic rare earths that were bought cheaply even became the rare earth reserves of other countries through smuggling channels.

Now it seems that China's ginseng industry is also repeating the mistakes of the rare earth industry, which makes people worry.

In fact, compared with Korean ginseng in South Korea, the anti-cancer effect of Changbai Mountain ginseng in China is more prominent, and South Korea has to import a large number of ginseng raw materials due to the shortage of raw materials.

In other words, after our ginseng was exported to South Korea at a low price, it was transformed into Korean ginseng and sold as Korean ginseng.

As for why this happens?

Boss Wang believes that there are many reasons for this.

"First of all, there is a big difference in the importance that the two countries attach to this. Ginseng is only a regional resource in Japan, but in South Korea it is a resource that is valued by the national industrial policy. ”

In South Korea, ginseng is a trump card related to the "image of the country".

As a result, South Korea is currently the only country in the world that has a ginseng monopoly, and ginseng production has always been under strict planning control. South Korean ginseng products, such as ginseng lozenges and ginseng drinks, are sold together with tobacco and alcohol counters.

It can be said that ginseng, like kimchi, is a necessity for South Koreans.

In order to seize the name of "Ginseng Country", for many years, the South Korean government, business circles, and academic circles have deliberately packaged South Korea as the "birthplace" and "suzerain" of ginseng.

"Although the yield of ginseng is far less than that of China, and the history of application is far less than that of China, even retrospectively, South Korean ginseng originated from ginseng in Kyrgyz Province, and the quality is not much different. But they're thick-skinned, they're so shameless, what can you do?" Boss Wang scoffed at this.

Calm down, it's normal operation!

Qi Zheng shrugged, he had long since had no expectations for the rods' discipline.

In the end, Boss Wang sighed, "In fact, it is because of the serious imbalance between supply and demand - my country is small and scattered at the production level, and there is a lack of leading enterprises, which has created a buyer's market, that is, the demand for customers is very large but the suppliers are very small, so our ability to produce premiums is very low, and under the pressure of Japanese and South Korean enterprises, we can only collapse into an ......army."

Qi Zheng listened thoughtfully.

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