Media investigation of Cordyceps expensive over gold invisible interest chain

Before the Spring Festival this year, the wholesale price of Cordyceps sinensis on the market in Lhasa, Tibet, has exceeded 200,000 yuan per kilogram; in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, the retail price of Cordyceps has even been calculated in grams. The price is high. Grams are more than 700 yuan. It is neither a necessities of life nor a curative effect. As a wild health product, why does Cordyceps price exceed gold? What is the hidden benefit chain behind Cordyceps prices rising year after year?

The domestic Cordyceps Market is mainly concentrated in cities including Xining, Chengdu, Lhasa, and Guangzhou. The Cordyceps Market in Xining City of Qinghai Province radiates from Qinghai Yushu, Guoluo and Nagqu in Tibet to the major Cordyceps-producing areas on the Tibetan Plateau and is an important Cordyceps distribution center in China. . Recently, the China Youth Daily reporter went deep into Xining Cordyceps Market and tried to understand the chain of interest behind the price craze of Cordyceps.

Do not eat to eat, buy does not eat Cordyceps grow in the alpine meadows, according to ancient Chinese medicine books, which in the regulation of immune function, asthma, protection of kidney function, enhance hematopoietic function, delay aging and other aspects have good pharmacology effect.

Modern medical research also believes that Cordyceps sinensis contains unique medicinal ingredients such as prachoin, grass polysaccharides, and triclopyrin. "Cordyceps" has the effect of preventing tumor recurrence, metastasis and proliferation. "Cordyceps polysaccharide" can increase glomerular filtration and restore impaired renal function.

In addition, studies have shown that the medicinal components of Cordyceps sinensis combine with each other to form a natural multi-component multi-channel multi-target therapy complex, and has achieved unprecedented results in the treatment of tumors, kidney diseases, lung diseases and the like.

In recent years, with the popularity of insect medicine, more and more consumers are enjoying it as an upscale health product. Zhang Zhongliang, general manager of Qinghai Haofeng Trading Co., Ltd., told reporters that the Southeast China coastal and Southeast Asian Chinese communities are the main groups of edible Cordyceps. Zhang Zhongliang has purchased a large amount of Cordyceps from the source area of ​​the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau every year in the Xining Cordyceps Market, and then wholesales it to merchants in South China and Southeast Asia.

Zhang Zhongliang has been engaged in the sale of Cordyceps for more than 10 years. In recent years, he has apparently felt that the market's demand for Cordyceps is continuously expanding. Not only people who eat Cordyceps are growing, but also some rich people make tea and porridge will use Cordyceps.

As Cordyceps market demand increases, Cordyceps derivatives also appear in large numbers. “Now there are health products made from Cordyceps on the market, and the profit is more than 1,000 yuan per gram.” Wang Haixi, general manager of Tianyin Corp., which has acquired Cordyceps all year round in Xining Market, told reporters that in various high-end locations and In the magazines of high-end readers, advertisements for those worm-eaten herbs have appeared frequently. Because of the convenience of eating, it has been recognized and accepted by more and more people. "In the south, people using Cordyceps or Cordyceps products are already common," said Wang Haixi.

The price of Cordyceps has been increasing year by year, and more and more people have been offering Cordyceps when the Chinese New Year is over or people are asked to do things. Like many health products, the Cordyceps market also has the phenomenon of “not buying, not buying”. In some traders who are engaged in the sale of Cordyceps, it may be that Cordyceps, as a luxury gift, continues to push up its market price.

"We feel that we have sent Cordyceps only in grades. We have both sent money and made it healthy, which meets the needs of modern people and tastes." Mr. Li, who is negotiating the purchase of Cordyceps matters, is telling reporters that he must buy several kilograms each year during the Chinese New Year. Cordyceps gifts, prices do not rise up does not matter, "Cockroach gifts the most appropriate!".

Ming Hai, general manager of Ming-Xin, also clearly felt that in recent years, more and more people have purchased Cordyceps gifts. The demand for Cordyceps from people seeking jobs, promotion, and running projects is very high. At this time, Cordyceps was sent to the high-end people like ordinary people to send melatonin, "said Hailong.

It is also known that the bird nest market suffered a crisis after the occurrence of the blood swallowing fraud in 2011. Imported bird's nests have to undergo rigorous testing and the bird's nest smuggling industry chain is completely blocked. The sales volume of bird's nest as a high-grade health product in the gift market has declined significantly, which has, to a certain extent, promoted the sale of similarly graded Cordyceps, and Cordyceps has therefore dominated the market for high-end healthcare products.

Harsh growth conditions, reduced yields Cordyceps sinensis grows mainly near snow lines at altitudes of 3,000 to 5,000 meters above sea level. It matures from April to June each year depending on altitude.

Due to the special requirements for the living environment, Cordyceps can only grow in parts of Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc. The annual national output is only about 80 tons to 150 tons. Among them, Qinghai Yushu, Guoluo and Nagqu areas in Tibet have an altitude of 4,000 to 5,000 meters. The quality of Cordyceps sinensis produced is the best.

"The country has about 100 tons of Cordyceps every year, of which 96% to 97% of Cordyceps is produced on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the other 3% to 4% are from Nepal and India." Zhang Zhongliang has been managing Cordyceps for more than 10 years, what is the length of Cordyceps all over the country? In this way, how much of the output is at hand.

It is understood that from May to July each year, during the peak season of “dredging grass”, the counties of the main producing areas of Cordyceps sinensis will welcome millions of “droughts of grass”. Each of them searches for 10 to 14 hours on the meadow every day. The “dredging people” stationed tents, set fire to cooking, trampled on vegetation, and dug a cordyceps every time. They had to dig 8 to 12 centimeters deep and planed to remove about 30 square centimeters of soil and leave potholes. These potholes do not grow grass. The plateau meadows were originally ecologically fragile, and they had a large area and dug grasses for a long time, pushing the whole meadow into desertification and desertification.

According to relevant data, only the mountain meadows destroyed in Qinghai Province each year are about 300,000 to 600,000 square meters.

Since last year, the climate in Yushu and Naqu, which are the main production areas of domestic Cordyceps, has been arid with low precipitation, which has caused certain impacts on the strict requirements of Cordyceps sinensis and severely reduced the production.

"Receipt has decreased significantly, which is a little more than 50% of the annual average." Cordyceps is acquired annually in the Xining market and Wang Haixi is very sensitive to Cordyceps production.

Cordyceps sinensis grows on meadows above the snow line of 3500 meters above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau, and has unique conditions in terms of climate, soil, and vegetation. It is understood that many scientists have also conducted experiments on artificially cultivated Cordyceps sinensis, but it has not yet been realized.

"Dry weather, reduced production, artificial cultivation and unsuccessful, cordyceps market stock this year has been less than in previous years." Zhang Zhongliang said.

"According to previous years, at the end of the year, Cordyceps prices will rise to some extent. Cordyceps dealers will have a backlog of goods waiting to be sold at the end of the year." In the last few days, Hao Hailong has been very busy, and he has been contacting clients to find Cordyceps. He told reporters that at the beginning of last year because of the unpredictability of the macroeconomic situation, most Cordyceps dealers sold all the stocks in their hands, and Cordyceps dealerships had very few stocks. "A long time ago, the market demand increased, and only stocks can be mentioned. The price has definitely risen."

Cordyceps significantly reduced production, New Year's Day, the Spring Festival, the demand increased significantly, the supply is insufficient, Cordyceps prices are pushed up again inevitably. "Look at this momentum, there is the possibility of price increases after the holiday season." Wang Haixi predicts.

Cordyceps from gifts to investment products in the Xining market, Wang Haixi, Zhang Zhongliang acquired the highest grade Cordyceps 1 kg has about 1500, and large body, good product phase. They sold this kind of Cordyceps to secondary distributors in the southeastern coastal areas and Beijing, and secondary distributors reprocessed and packaged them at a price of 270,000 yuan to 280,000 yuan per kilogram, and put high-grade health care products on the market. Sold 600,000 to 700,000 yuan.

"Excluding processing, packaging and related taxes of 20% to 30%, the profits of the secondary distributors can reach 40% to 50%." The entire batch of products is supplied to the big bosses of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fujian, Zhejiang and Beijing all year round. Wang Haixi is well aware of the profits of the Cordyceps industry.

As to how the secondary distributors will reprocess and package, Wang Haixi told reporters that Cordyceps sinensis in the Xining market mainly purchases raw Cordyceps from the production areas, and deals in terms of size, product, etc., according to the general situation, due to the large amount of Cordyceps. The quality can be traded only for a rough estimate; while the second-tier distributors get goods from the Xining market, they go back and have a more detailed classification of the size, number, and quality of each of these cordyceps on the Xining market. After being packaged, it will be put on the market directly and retailed to consumers.

China Youth Daily reporter learned that, under normal circumstances, the Cordyceps origin purchaser will take the Cordyceps shipped to Xining, resell it to the first-tier distributors of the Xining market, or itself is the origin of the purchaser and a Dealer. The first-tier dealers then transferred them to the downstream link, and the wholesale price was more than several thousand yuan per kilogram more than the purchase price of the place of origin. When it comes to sales shops in big coastal cities, Cordyceps prices can be several times higher than the purchase price of the origin.

"Cocktail prices currently on the market are retailed several times. The price after processing and packaging is much higher than that in the Xining market." Wang Haixi said.

Every year at the end of the year, Cordyceps has already traded in the market more than one-handedly, and new products can be listed in the fourth and fifth months of the coming year. It is at this time that Cordyceps is in the season of buying and selling. According to the market conditions, by the end of the year, some large Chinese caterpillar fungus will also be hoarded, and the goods will not be put on the market and will be thrown at a higher price.

"Some gifts of Cordyceps have not been eaten, but have been recovered again and once again entered the Cordyceps trade process." Zhang Zhongliang said that each year there will be a considerable amount of Cordyceps as a gift in the market after several transactions, these Cordyceps is like a precious metal. In the same way, it can be said as a value carrier.

According to Wang Haixi, at the end of last year, the price of Cordyceps was at a stalemate, and a South owner with hundreds of millions of dollars came to the Xining and Chengdu markets to receive goods. The stocks in the hands of hawkers in the market were wiped out. The boss eventually sold the goods after selling for a period of time, making a net profit of 100 million yuan.

It is understood that, in addition to a dramatic fall in the price of Cordyceps in 2008, in the past 10 years, Cordyceps prices have been showing upward momentum, watching Cordyceps for many years "only make no compensation," the positive market, more and more people also regard Cordyceps as a Kind of value-added good investment products.

"There are people who press a few pounds, and people who have several tons of pressure, as well as the recent downturn in the real estate market, do not rule out that there are more people who put money into Cordyceps." Zhang Zhongliang said that in Gan Qingchuan's area where Cordyceps grows, When Cordyceps first came down, a considerable number of working-class people also used spare cash to buy a few pounds of Chinese caterpillar fungus and sell it to market prices.

"This is a regular part of the Cordyceps trade. There is also a large amount of goods that can be picked up this year." Wang Haixi believes that the output of Chinese caterpillar fungus will have been reduced this year. If there is a lot of pressure on the goods, there will be a normal increase in the price of Cordyceps.

Some experts also believe that the medicinal value of Cordyceps is no different from that of ordinary mushrooms. It is entirely attributed to the gift that pushes Cordyceps prices.

"In the end, there is no difference between the various opinions, but the current society has a strong demand for health care products, there is not much Cordyceps production, there is a lot of room for speculation." An industry source believes that propaganda hype caters to people's pursuit of health care and let The social psychology of wealth appreciation has intensified the rise of Cordyceps prices to a large extent.