Jiangsu province has made great efforts to promote the transformation of traditional industries and focus on intelligent manufacturing to help companies improve quality, reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Longfengtang, a traditional Chinese medicine company based in the city of Taizhou, is an example of intelligent tools being used to promote the modernization of the TCM industry.
According to Xu Jingren, CEO of the company, they have set up 34 standardized planting bases for Chinese medicinal herbs covering more than 6,600 hectares by the end of 2021, in an effort to control the quality of TCM from the source.
Longfengtang has set up a Chinese herbal medicine traceability system, which allows real-time monitoring of the whole process of planting, harvesting, processing and transportation.
In addition, the company has set up an integrated logistics system and robot feeding system to achieve automatic transportation and digital production of TCM products across different workshops.
From the storage of medicinal materials to the finished products, Longfengtang has achieved automatic transmission across the whole chain.
The digital tools help to reduce human errors, reduce energy consumption and any uncontrollable operation of TCM production, according to Longfengtang.
An impressive exterior view of Longfengtang, the TCM industrial park in the Taizhou Medical High-tech Zone. [Photo provided to etaizhou.gov.cn]