New Layout Focusing on Characteristic Industries
Baoding has a vast territory,rich products,a developed economy with regional characteristics and great potential for development and trade.Anguo Pharmaceutical,Gaoyang Textile,Baigou Bags and Cases and other characteristic businesses occupy important positions in the same industries of China.In recent years,Baoding closely follows the mainline of“transformation and upgrading of traditional industries,optimization and improvement of characteristic industries,development and cultivation of emerging industries”to actively merge into the coordinated development strategy of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region,and strives for a breakthrough in making characteristic industries better and stronger.
Anguo Herbal Medicine Market Anguo Herbal Medicine Market,called“the first herbal medicine market of China,”has flourished for thousands of years in the Chinese herbal medicine industry.It can be traced back to Pi Tong,the“King of Medicine”of Anguo,who was proficient in medical science and ever held a high position in the court.He was an honest official who helped the people and loved the people.With the emperor’s constant granting and honors to Pi Tong,the influence of the“King of Medicine”was increasing.In general,when people turned to the“King of Medicine,”believers often came to burn incense,so the merchants took the opportunity to sell drugs.Therefore,a temple fair for medicinal materials on the 28th day of the fourth lunar month came into being,which gradually developed into a material fair focusing on the pharmaceutical industry.From the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China,the temple fairs were organized by the“Thirteen Groups”in turn.At each temple fair,the whole county town was filled with the scent of herbal medicine.Therefore,there was a saying that“Without passing through Qizhou,a drug does not produce fragrance or is only herb instead of medicine”among the people.Anguo then became a“hub for the exchange of Chinese medicinal materials,”a distribution center for Chinese medicinal materials and proprietary Chinese medicines for“exchange of goods from different directions,”and was known as the“Medicine Capital of China.”With the spring breeze of reform and opening up,the development of Anguo’s pharmaceutical industry turned to a new page.The annual output of medicinal materials in Anguo accounted for 65% of the total output of Hebei Province,and Anguo Herbal Medicine Market became the largest trade fair of medicinal materials in China.
Gaoyang Textile The textile industry in Gaoyang County has a long history,which started in the late Ming Dynasty,rose in the late Qing Dynasty,and flourished in the early Republic of China.It enjoys the reputation that“there is no weed on mountains of Guilin,and cloth of Gaoyang is new in all seasons.”Especially after the reform and opening up,Gaoyang’s textile industry really began to soar.With textile manufacturers scattered,the annual throughput of yarn and silk in Gaoyang accounted for a quarter of the country’s total,and its products were sold all over the country and were also popular among customers in all five continents.“Sanli”wool,a Chinese national well-known trademark,is produced here.In 1997,Gaoyang County was named“Strong County in Textile Industry”by the Hebei Provincial People’s Government.
Baigou Bags and Cases Baigou New Town is known as the“Capital of Bags and Cases in China,”and its bag industry is one of the top ten regional characteristic industries of Hebei Province.After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CPC,the people of Baigou,with their unique business tradition and pioneering spirit,set up ten professional markets with the Baigou Bags and Cases Trading Market and White Lotus Small Commodities Market as the mainstays and characteristic industries with bags and cases as the mainstay.More than 3,000 individual processing enterprises and 150 enterprises above designated scale have formed a scale production capacity of 150 million bags and cases per year,accounting for about one-fifth of the country’s total production and sales volumes,making it one of the largest production and sales bases of bags and cases in China.