"chinese Herbal" Popular Drug Prices Fall Quietly Fill Up (Sep 19, 2011)
Nowadays, "autumn tiger" rampant, with the members of the public purse gradually drum, living standards rise, and health care has gradually become a popular fashion, up from summer to autumn meeting, Traditional Chinese medicine Health care products in the provincial capital Sell Increasingly optimistic. A few years ago is different is that expensive medicine health care products, as technology innovation and market competition, now has entered the provincial capital of civilians family, market opportunities surging, hot anomaly, this traditional Chinese medicine and health Commodities prices have become increasingly bullish. "Chinese Herbal" silent epidemic provincial capitalEight years ago, the provincial capital of Miss He insisted every day medlar, Tianma tea to drink, "I got kidney stones in 2000, surgery removed a kidney, was very weak." Miss He heard colleagues say Wolfberry Chinese medicine is very good for the kidneys, etc., on specialized bought some, drink tea every day, "much better now, this year I also went to Korea to play a." Now, "autumn tiger" rampage, to keep fit, many people take advantage of the summer and fall at the turn of "tonic" medicine, thus, "Chinese Herbal tide" is also the provincial capital quietly popular. Every winter at the old woman guilty of arthritis, arm pain and sour every day. To withstand the abuse of the old lady, looking a bit old Chinese, that Chinese have a "Winter Disease up" argument. "Last year I tried before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the joint no problem when the drugs began, wind, angelica what, last winter, I feel a big difference, it seems tough a lot of bones." Hefei Ciren Tang Ginseng FAN Shi, general manager of a large pharmacy, said Silver, Chinese medicine prevention system is not directed against the patient, but against the people, it is mainly health to body and mind conditioning, although the slow effect of Chinese medicine, but health it is truly "at root", so much public favor. Wallets autumn meeting of rural peopleFeidong one pharmacy in the 30 years of "Chinese Law", is a pharmacist, he told reporters in recent years, the county's sale of Chinese medicine health care products favored them. "A few years ago, Chinese health products in the city only a few people enjoy, but now, with the standard of living is increasing, the provincial capital around the county, even in rural areas, have begun to pop up from the traditional Chinese medicine care." "Before the relatively expensive health care products, such as ginseng, deer horn, etc., and now has become a mass consumer goods." Luo said Chinese medicine. Survey reporter learned that, with the "hot autumn" of the came, rising temperatures have led the Chinese of "warming up", many pharmacies are reflected, Dan, Huoxiangzhengqi water than normal sales of pharmaceuticals rose 34 percent, while the buyer in addition to their employees, another large group is the rural population. Addition Cold Sunstroke medicine, with 24 flavors, Mangosteen and other cool lungs and stewed in herbal Chinese medicine is also popular. It is understood that "cool tea" by the rock candy and a variety of traditional Chinese medicine such as cold dry summer ball, chrysanthemum, mulberry leaves, gardenia, mint leaves, composed of frozen bubble out drinking, not only taste Tianrun, but also eliminated the heat on the people effects. Wang quietly rising demand price In the provincial capital near the mouth of the health Sanxiao large pharmacy, the reporter saw a constant stream of people come to buy medicine. An old pharmacists told reporters, "Now many people came for the medicine, drugs move fast, and very smooth, the market demand increases, prices will naturally rise, but, overall, the price is stabilized." Investigation is understood that most of the province from the major pharmacy medicine Bozhou, the market posted by Bozhou Chinese herbal medicines Information, the reporter found, now, amid all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine raw material prices rose slightly, such as Sterculia lychnophora, because fewer goods, prices have since risen, with the spleen, lungs, Gushen, Yijing function yam, smooth move , prices are rising, or have Suanzaoren larger, because of lean, from 118-120 yuan to 98 yuan market, due to higher prices, many farmers grow jujube.
Socialism and consumerism rub shoulders in Tripoli (Oct 11, 2011)
As economic barriers fall between Libya and the West, a boom-town atmosphere fed by the novelty of consumer culture has gripped its capital Tripoli.Hotel rooms are in short supply as foreigners flock to the Mediterranean port city to seal business deals made possible by the OPEC member country's recovery from years of sanctions.As the sun sets and a cool breeze wafts through shady colonial-era arcades, Tripolitans stroll past shops laden with a growing array of imported goods, from veiled Barbie dolls to England football shirts, designer handbags and silk scarves.According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, foreign direct investment into Libya rose to $2.5 billion in 2007 after a slow recovery since 2004, the year after Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction program.That put it on a par for inflows with Morocco and Sudan in Africa.Near Green Square's glaring floodlights and posters celebrating 39 years of Muammar Gaddafi's Islamic socialist revolution, businessmen with the latest laptops discuss investment projects over Italian coffee and fruit smoothies.As the number of flights to Tripoli grows, the airport's car park has overflown into a field nearby. A $2 billion project to increase passenger capacity more than sixfold is under way."If you don't visit a particular area for a while it becomes hardly recognizable," said Libyan singer-songwriter Ahmed Fakroun. "You ask yourself: "When did all this happen?'"With unemployment estimated by the U.S. embassy to run at a minimum of 30 percent in Libya as a whole, the laid-back people of Tripoli appear unfazed by the level of activity and growing number of foreign visitors.The most significant arrival by far was that of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose September trip was intended to end decades of enmity.It raised hopes that Libya is on its way back into the international mainstream after years when it was seen in the West as a supporter of terrorism. To judge by the atmosphere in Tripoli, the shift to modernity is well rooted.WHEEL SPINS AND NEW HOTELSA tailback of BMWs and sport-utility vehicles forms along wealthy Ben Achour Street and young male drivers show off their powerful engines with screeching wheel-spins that send up plumes of smoke.The noise fails to distract a group of old men playing draughts over a water pipe of tobacco.Billboards across town advertise towering hotel developments. French perfume and Italian designer clothing stores have appeared to cater for a new class of wealthy, sophisticated Libyan with money to burn."Business is booming and next year promises to be even bigger," said Mustapha, a Tunisian working for Italian furniture group Doimo. "We've stopped taking more business for now as we just wouldn't be able to honor the contracts."U.S. companies got involved in Libyan oil and gas after the end of sanctions in 2004 but many held back until this summer when the two countries agreed to set up a fund to cover terrorism compensation claims.Today, big American brands are still conspicuously absent. There are burger bars, but no McDonalds. A man dressed in a furry duck outfit greets visitors to a family restaurant, yet Disney stores are nowhere.Libyans interviewed in Tripoli say their country is opening to the global economy on its own terms, encouraging inward investment while eschewing symbols of western economic power.They prefer not to discuss politics but some defend Libya's system in which young families are sold starter homes at favorable rates, flour is subsidized to ensure it stays "cheaper than sand" and few citizens are reduced to begging.Gaddafi's Green Book, the theoretical foundation of his system of government published in the late 1970s, calls the employee-employer relationship one of slavery and proposes "Not Wage Workers, but Partners." Now his influential son Saif al-Islam has put his weight behind a campaign for more Libyans to set up small businesses.INFLUX OF FOREIGNERSSome Tripolitans say reforms to encourage people to retrain for real jobs rather than relying on government sinecures are a sign the country can modernize without a new revolution."You can get what you want in Libya, but you do need to work hard at your studies," said Abdelhafid Shtiwi, a 30-year-old desert oil field engineer. "Some people might take government money and just stay at home, but that's not much of a life."Others say Libyan society has become a little more meritocratic -- their compatriots can be seen working as mechanics and even street cleaners where before they would have turned down such work.They say a new atmosphere of enterprise has infected part of the population, and Tripoli's shops draw Tunisians stocking up on cheap consumer electronics and household appliances. Tripoli is some 180 km (112 miles) from the Tunisian border and in the years of sanctions, Tunisia was a relatively easy route in.Yet Libyans with less well-paid jobs complain the influx of foreigners has pushed up the cost of living and family incomes have failed to keep pace."Everything is expensive, expensive, expensive," said taxi driver Mustapha. "My father is dead and I struggle to support my sisters and brothers. Only petrol is cheap."Gaddafi has ruled out changing his system of government, which bans political parties in favor of rule by local committees. But he has suggested citizens should be handed more of the desert country's oil wealth and allowed to decide how to spend it themselves.That reform is meant to start in January, although Libyan experts say it may be derailed by global financial turmoil."If the international circumstances do not permit such a program to be carried out now, it could be delayed," said Saleh Ibrahim, a member of Libya's National Planning Council and director of the Academy of Graduate Studies.And after so many years of isolation, some Libyans remain suspicious of the growing foreign presence: "Apart from all these hotels, are they going to give us scholarships, better education and help our government offer free health?" said economic consultant Ismail Thurki. "I worry it will be the foreigners who take the profits, not us Libyans."(Editing by Sara Ledwith)
