Chongqing chuqimen traditional Chinese medicine market moved to Caiyuanba new site for trial operation yesterday

Yesterday, with the trial operation of Caiyuanba traditional Chinese medicine market, the professional market of zhuqimen traditional Chinese medicine is moving one after another, and will be officially closed on 25th of this month At 12:00 p.m on July 31, at the west exit of zhuqimen traditional Chinese medicine market, there were several vans Several LIGO were carrying bundles of herbs to the van The corridor was also blocked by the packed herbs On the wall at the entrance of the market, there is a Relocation Notice: Chongqing Traditional Chinese medicine market moved to No 166, South District road It will be put into trial operation from August 1, 2013 Chongqing Traditional Chinese medicine market (No 88, Jiefang West Road) will be closed on August 25, 2013 It was signed as Chongqing TongJunGe traditional Chinese medicine wholesale Co., Ltd and Chongqing navigation trade Co., Ltd The head of the market said that the Chinese herbal medicine market in Caiyuanba will officially open on September 1, with an area of more than 20000 square meters, more than 300 pavements and sizes ranging from 20 to 50 square meters Yesterday afternoon, the reporter saw in the new Chinese herbal medicine market that, unlike the chuqimen Chinese herbal medicine market, the new market has four floors, each shop is separated by a glass wall, and many merchants have settled in According to historical records, in the third year of Xuantong (1911), Chongqing had 220 drug operators, 80 stores, 25 Guangyao stores, 120 drug shops and a large number of small drug dealers Chongqing herbal medicine guild can be divided into local "medicine seven gangs" and foreign "medicine thirteen gangs", roughly divided by business varieties and merchants' ancestral regions According to he Zhiya, chairman of Chongqing historical and cultural city protection committee and author of Chongqing old city, Chongqing herbal medicine industry started from the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty Lin'an gang of Jiangxi first came to Chongqing to set up herbal medicine business, and later Zhejiang Gang, Guangdong gang and Hankou Gang successively came to Chongqing to open stores Because of the convenience of water transportation of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, not only the medicinal materials in Sichuan Province are concentrated in Chongqing, but also the medicinal materials produced in Shanxi, kangzang, Yunnan and Guizhou are exported to Chongqing Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other provinces sell medicinal materials to the southwest, and Chongqing is also the transit area Most of Chongqing's drug companies are located in zhuqimen, zijinmen and Liansheng Street (now Kaixuan Road), with more than 100 From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, zhuqimen was the place where Chongqing's mountain medicine was concentrated, and there were many medicine guilds, so there was a saying of zhuqimen, medicine guilds, and curing all kinds of diseases On August 25, 1930, the fire broke out from morning to midnight According to Chongqing chronicles, on August 25, 1930, the fire broke out in zhuqimenhe street, Chongqing It lasted from 9:00 a.m to midnight The fire started outside zhuqimen gate and continued to burn into the city It also affected renhewan, Gemini lane, jinzimen, zhenshoushi office, Yudai street and went to sanshengdian, Daliangzi and Ciqi street The disaster area covers an area of about 2 square kilometers, with more than 10000 victims He Zhong, an old man who has lived in zhuqimen for more than 80 years, recalled that he had seen the fire with his own eyes and had been burning it all day Later, my father said that after the fire, when some medicine merchants who had invested in the fire insurance came to the British insurance companies such as Baili and Taigu to settle their claims, the foreign people tried their best to reduce the odds On January 28, 1994, it was planned to move into zhuqimen traditional Chinese medicine market of West Jiefang Road, the predecessor of which was the combination of zhuqimen yangziba traditional Chinese medicine market and Chaotianmen comprehensive trading market At the end of 1993, under the unified planning of Yuzhong District Government of Chongqing, the market moved into No 88, Jiefang West Road, and officially opened on January 28, 1994 The market is on the first floor of the sixth floor, with an area of about 10000 square meters and about 200 businesses Wang Lihui, 50, is a Chongqing native Since 1991, she started to operate a medicinal material stall at Chaotianmen wharf In 1999, she came to the medicinal material market of chuqimen and worked for 14 years "The medicine shop in the market is a stall system There is no thick wall in the shop Whoever has a short medicine will be able to support all the stalls in all directions in time." Wang Lihui said that the market is old-fashioned buildings and there is no air conditioning In summer, it usually closes at 12 noon Ms Xiao, who opened a health food store across the market, recalled that 1998-2005 was the most prosperous time of the herbal medicine market Many businesses put their stalls at the market gate, and there were herbal medicine stalls on the street all the way looking very spectacular People could not pass by for many times "When the medicine market moves, I may move too." Ms Xiao said that the traffic here is not very convenient now, and the business should be better after moving to Caiyuanba.