Research on the Current Situation and Strategy of E-Commerce Development of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Gansu Province
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MATEC Web of Conferences 228, 05014 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201822805014 CAS 2018 Research on the Current Situation and Strategy of E-commerce Development of Chinese Medicinal Materials in Gansu Province Jing Xu1 and Peilei Wu1 1School of Economics, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China Abstract. At present, there are some problems in e-commerce of Chinese medicinal materials in Gansu Province, such as insufficient awareness of the development of business entities, loss of regional brand advantages, great differences in the quality of Chinese medicinal material commodities, and empty trading platform. This paper proposes to strengthen the brand building, establish a unified standard, pay attention to personnel training, speed up the construction of network platform and the Chinese medicine logistics system. Acknowledgement. This article is supported by the national information e-commerce key laboratory of Gansu province's higher education institutions. Also, it is the result of the opening phase of the laboratory of Northwest University for Nationalities (Project Approval No: SYSKF - 2018095). Gansu province is a large province of traditional Chinese series of electronic trading activities about the production, medicinal materials planting. It has been recorded in supply and sale of Chinese medicinal materials. historic data that Gansu province has a history of planting Chinese medicinal materials for thousands of years. In recent years, the development momentum of traditional 2 Research status at home and abroad Chinese medicines in Gansu Province has continued to Foreign scholars have carried out research in many fields leap forward. In 2014, the planting area of Chinese and perspectives, such as guiding the transformation of medicinal materials in Gansu Province was 3.837 million traditional enterprises, agricultural e-commerce means mu, and the output was 983 thousand tons. In 2016, the (Agric-EC), e-commerce retail expansion, e-commerce planting area reached 4.05 million mu, and the output was revision framework, e-commerce agriculture poverty 1.1 million tons, continues to maintain the first place in alleviation, building virtual communities, improving the the country, the market influential force has been efficiency of agricultural products circulation, and significantly enhanced. It has become one of the pillar intelligent e-commerce of agricultural products, not industries in Gansu province. Due to the limited attributes involving China's unique Chinese medicinal materials of special agricultural products of Chinese medicinal e-commerce .Domestic scholars in the field of materials and the lack of relevant information, the agricultural products e-commerce mainly analyzed from development of e-commerce of Chinese medicinal aspects of the agricultural products network marketing materials in Gansu Province has been seriously restricted. model, agricultural products e-commerce model, agricultural products logistics model, agricultural 1 Related concepts products or agricultural products of local characteristics e-commerce development status etc. In terms of Chinese The Organization for Economic Co-operating and medicinal materials, Gansu Province has formed ten Development (OECD) believes that e-commerce is a famous brands of Gansu medicines, which have a number business activity between enterprises and enterprises, of good products and have certain influence in the country. enterprises and consumers on an open network, including However, single products with annual sales of over 100 intranets, extranets and Internet. Chinese medicinal million are very few, lacking market influence and materials are unprocessed or simply processed medicines competitiveness. The establishment of superior brands of from natural sources, commonly known as "medicinal Chinese medicinal materials is not symmetrical with the materials", usually divided into botanical drugs, animal development of Chinese medicinal materials industry. drugs and mineral drugs. Chinese medicinal materials can There are very few studies on e-commerce of Chinese be processed into pieces for clinical use, or also as raw medicinal materials. This paper takes the electronic materials. E-commerce of Chinese medicinal material is a commerce of Chinese medicinal materials in Gansu © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). MATEC Web of Conferences 228, 05014 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201822805014 CAS 2018 Province as the research object, using the network Ling Ling's farm 1531 Taobao Dingxi platform to search the sales data of Chinese medicinal store materials stores of Gansu province on Taobao and Tmall. Minxian County Angelica sinensis 1136 Taobao Dingxi family 3 Development status and problems of Guanqu special 935 Taobao Lanzhou Chinese medicinal materials product e-commerce in Gansu province Dameitianshui 925 Taobao Tianshui Longxi 3.1 The awareness of business entities QingcaotangChinese 777 Taobao Dingxi development is insufficient and there is lack of medicinal materials brand awareness Cuishengtang Food 753 Taobao Lanzhou In Chinese medicinal materials e-commercial entities, there are wholesalers, agricultural cooperative Baixinyuan Food 538 Taobao Dingxi organizations, production and marketing integration Guixiangti 535 Taobao Dingxi organizations with relatively strong financial strength, as Xibuyuansheng well as relatively weak and decentralized farmers, farms 522 Taobao Longnan and individual vendors. When small-scale entities special product participate in the market competition or trading, they do Miss Huangtunv 509 Taobao Qingyang not have a comprehensive grasp of information, lack the special product ability to respond to the market, and are at a disadvantage position in the trading process. Those enterprises which Table 2. Sales of top 5 Chinese medicinal materials Taobao and began to take the shape mostly have strong economic Tmall stores in China. strength, have a good grasp of market information, can Sales Belonged make better economic decisions, and have a strong ability volume Registered address Shop name to to control and respond to the market. It is easy for (piece)/ of shop platform large-scale e-commerce entities to form an interest month alliance to monopolize the market, so that the interests of Minfu food monopolized 70540 Tmall Lanzhou small and medium-sized e-commerce of Chinese store medicinal materials are squeezed, there are problems with Thousand petals goods available but no one to buy. renamed Jia 62675 Taobao Shanghai Up to August 6th, 2018, a total of 7575 online stores food ingredients ShanyifangFlags of Chinese medicinal materials in Gansu Province were 58654 Tmall Yinchuan, Ningxia searched on the home page of Taobao, including 7 339 hip store stores on Taobao platform and 236 stores on Tmall Chimamaxiang 48941 Taobao Shanghai Pudong platform. If the location of e-commerce registration is in sauce shop Gansu Province, the number of stores on Taobao is Liaoweiyuan 36348 Taobao Weifang, Shandong reduced to 200, and stores on Tmall are only 7. The main spices products of these stores are Angelica sinensis, Codonopsis pilosula and Radix Astragali, forming an Table 1 shows that the top 15 sales of Taobao Tmall of e-commerce with Dingxi and Min county in Gansu Gansu-based Chinese medicinal materials e-commerce. Province as the main producing areas. The specific sales There is a big gap of sales volume between the first situation is shown in Table 1 and table 2. Tianmao store Minfu food monopolized store and the Table 1. Sales of top 15 Chinese medicinal materials Taobao second Juhetai flagship store. Table 2 shows that the top 5 and Tmall shops in Gansu province. sales of Taobao Tmall of Chinese medicinal materials e-commerce, Minfu food monopolized store still ranks Sales Belonged Registered first, Juhetai flagship store ranks 12. Other top rankings volume Shop name to address of are mostly foreign shops such as Ningxia, Bozhou, Anhui (piece) / platform shop month Province, indicating that Minfu food monopolized store Minfu food has formed a certain brand advantage, while other stores 70540 Tmall Lanzhou monopolized store in Gansu have not yet formed shop brand advantage. Juhetai flagship store 18891 Tmall Dingxi "Gansu Province Chinese medicinal materials " has formed a regional brand advantage, but the essence of this Original green farm 2779 Taobao Dingxi advantage is mainly occupied by the e-commerce of other store areas. Mingyang Chinese medicinal material 2260 Taobao Dingxi health preservation Hall 3.2 The quality of commodities is uneven Silk Road food 2136 Tmall Dingxi There are not only scaled Chinese medicinal materials monopolized store manufacturers in Gansu province, but also small 2 MATEC Web of Conferences 228, 05014 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201822805014 CAS 2018 self-management households on Taobao and WeChat, networks have been set up in various places, and more Chinese medicinal materials e-commerce is facing the than ten websites related to Chinese medicinal materials problem of quality control, specifically manifested in: have been set up in Gansu Province, it is difficult to product quality differences, product preservation in the estimate planting areas and yields because of the process of transportation, differences of warehousing cost complicated market situation of Chinese medicinal and means, making