Destination Spotlight

Establishing TCM Medical Tourism Pilot Zone in Guangxi Focusing on Guilin International Intelligence Health Park

By
Jonathan Edelheit
at
Medical Tourism Association
Destination Spotlight

Transformation & Acceleration of Guangxi’s Senior Care Services Industry

Guangxi, an autonomous region in China, is on the verge of establishing one of the best comprehensive senior care services industries in the whole country. Guangxi has set a blueprint to develop the senior care services industry, national pharmaceutical industry, agriculture industry, culture and sports, and tourism industry in some of its cities including Nanning, Liuzhou, Guilin, Wuzhou, Beihai, Yulin, Hechi, and Hezhou to drive tourism in the region. In achieving this target, some large-scale senior care industry projects such as Guangxi Taihe Pure Land and Guilin International Wisdom and Health Industrial Park have entered the market in Guangxi.

Guangxi plans to develop the senior care industry business model, cultivate the senior care and wellness consumer market, and promote the development of senior care services industrialization. There are plans to also build a number of major projects for industrial integration development, such as the senior care services and tourism industry, pharmaceutical industry, real estate industry, green agriculture industry, and culture & sports industry to further promote the business model development of its senior care & wellness industry.

Guangxi seeks to also innovate and develop the “migratory birds-like” tourism senior care model, as well as actively develop the senior care industry agglomeration areas, senior care industry parks, and senior care towns, as part of plans to boost the health tourism industry. Up to 15 senior care industry agglomeration areas and 30 senior care industry park, including China – ASEAN Health Industry City and Guangxi Taihe Pure Land, will be built in Nanning, Guilin, Beihai, Hechi, Wuzhou, Hezhou and other cities in Guangxi as the key construction projects for cultivating the health tourism industry. These projects will yield an estimated income of more than 100 million RMB and are aimed at providing senior care & wellness, healthcare, tourism, and other functions.

Innovation and Development of Health Food and Pharmaceutical Industry

Good ecological environment is the symbolic brand of Guangxi. “Green”, “environmental protection”, and “organic” have become synonymous with Guangxi’s agricultural products. Guangxi aims to promote the development of the healthy food industry as well as the production of pollution-free agricultural products. The region also plans to establish a green food processing base and healthcare products processing base to create a high-quality healthcare industry brand that is well-known at home and abroad.


Northern Guangxi also plans to develop the production of selenium-rich agricultural products and promote the modernization of selenium-rich agriculture while the Southeast region of Guangxi will focus on growing a buoyant farming industry.

Guangxi is also rich in natural medicine resources, which makes it regarded as the “natural medicine library” of the country and “a land rich in medicinal herbs”. Its vast amount of natural medicine resources constitutes one-third of the country’s store. This ranks Guangxi second in the list of regions with abundant natural medicine resources.


In addition, there are approximately a thousand kinds of marine biological resources and medical resources in Guangxi. In the context of the rapid growth of traditional Chinese medicine and raw material demand, Guangxi ranks high and these advantages are being utilized to drive the wellness industry.

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the 100 billion RMB and strategic emerging industries in Guangxi. The local government attaches great importance to Guangxi’s pharmaceutical industry, especially the development of the ethnodrug industry.


In recent years, the government has issued a series of policies and programs and established the government investment guide fund to provide a multi-dimensional support for the development of the pharmaceutical industry.

Relying on the advantages of its rich medicinal plant resources and unique geographical advantages, Guangxi plans to develop the biomedical industry, cultivate new economic growth points in the biotechnology drugs and medical equipment industry, and develop new species of modern patent drugs, marine biological drugs, and new medical equipment. Supported by bio-pharmaceutical industry parks, Guangxi will build a group of strategic industrial clusters in the field of biomedicine.

In accordance with the goals of development, the region’s pharmaceutical manufacturing output value is projected to reach 85 billion RMB in 2019 and 100 billion RMB in 2020. Zhuang and Yao’s pharmaceutical industries account for the yearly increase in the region’s ethnodrug industry output value which is projected to reach about 25% in 2019 and 30% in 2020.

Find out more about the current trends and the future of China’s health tourism industry in the Medical Tourism Conference in Boao, Haikou, and Sanya (Hainan Province) from December 7th to 13th, 2018. This conference will help you gain access to Asia-Pacific’s most influential healthcare industry leaders.

                                                                    

广西打造中医药健康旅游示范基地 桂林国际智慧健康产业园受关注(2)

 养老服务产业加快转型升级

 广西在全国率先提出创建省(区)级养老服务业综合改革试验区,特色养老产业发展取得新突破,养老服务产业转型升级步伐进一步加快。

当前,南宁、柳州、桂林、梧州、北海、玉林、河池、贺州等地规划建设8个健康养老产业集聚区,推进养老服务业与旅游业、民族医药产业、绿色农业产业、文化体育产业、家政服务业等融合发展,吸引社会资本注入广西养老产业。广西太和自在城、桂林国际智慧健康产业园等一批大型养老产业项目已进入广西市场。

按照规划,将大力发展健康养老业态,培育养老养生消费市场,推动养老服务产业化发展。支持建设一批养老服务业与旅游、医药产业、房地产、绿色农业、文化体育等产业融合发展的重大项目,进一步推动特色养生养老产业新业态发展。创新发展“候鸟式”旅游养老模式,积极发展养老产业集聚区、养老产业园区、养老城镇,重点依托南宁、桂林、北海、河池、梧州、贺州等地,建设15个健康养老养生产业集聚区;重点建设中国-东盟健康产业城、广西太和自在城等30个养老产业园区,培育一批具有养老养生、医疗保健、休闲旅游等功能的营业收入超亿元龙头企业。

创新发展健康食品和医药产业

 良好的生态环境是广西的金字招牌,“绿色”“环保”“有机”成为了广西农产品的代名词。我区将进一步加快发展健康食品产业,加强无公害农产品、绿色食品深加工基地和保健品加工基地建设,打造国内外知名的保健产业品牌;打造有国际知名度和影响力的长寿养生品牌和种养基地。桂北地区大力发展富硒农产品的生产,逐步实现富硒农业的现代化。桂东南地区重点壮大特色种养业,努力形成规模化的特色农业产业带。

广西特色民族医药资源丰富,药用动植物资源约占全国的1/3,是我国的“天然药库”和“中药材之乡”,其中中草药物种数量排全国第二位。此外,广西还有近千种海洋生物资源和极具特色的少数民族医药资源,在全国中药原料需求快速增长和部分濒危药材缺失的背景下,资源优势越发凸显。

医药产业是广西重点打造的千亿元产业和战略性新兴产业之一,自治区政府高度重视广西医药产业尤其是中药民族药产业的发展,近年来相继出台了一系列政策和方案,设立了政府投资引导基金,多维度支持医药产业在新常态下成功突围和破局,实现产业跨越发展。

依托丰富的药用植物资源优势和独特的区位优势,我区将大力发展生物医药产业,在生物技术药物及医疗仪器设备产业方面培育新的经济增长点,开发现代中成药新品种、海洋生物药品和医疗器械设备新产品等。以生物医药产业园区为载体,在生物医药领域建设一批广西战略性新兴产业集群。

按照发展目标,到2019年,全区医药制造业产值达到850亿元,到2020年达到1000亿元以上,壮瑶医药产业产值占中医药民族医药产业总产值的比重逐年提升,2019年达到25%左右,2020年力争达到30%。

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