The result of the 1st Selection Campaign for Outstanding Invention Companies in Zhejiang Province co-sponsored by Zhejiang Association of Inventions and Sci-Tech & Finance Times was released recently, with 20 enterprises winning the honor including among others Zhejiang ShouXianGu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ShouXianGu’s key sporoderm-removal technology for the “third-generation ganoderma lucidum spore powder and its application” was further rated as the excellent transformation program.

Zhejiang ShouXianGu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., an enterprise of Chinese Time-Honored Brand, is a national high-tech company that integrates variety breeding, research, cultivation, production and sales of valuable traditional Chinese medicinal materials and rare medicinal & edible fungi. It is also the Vice President Company of China Edible Fungi Association and China Medicine Education Association, and President Company of Zhejiang TCM Industry Association. In May 2017, ShouXianGu (603896) got listed on the main board of Shanghai Stock Exchange, representing the first stock in China’s ganoderma lucidum and dendrobium officinale industries.

Several decades of accumulation and innovation by ShouXianGu in the industry of traditional Chinese medicinal materials has allowed the company to establish a perfect whole industry chain covering breeding of fine varieties, wild-imitated organic cultivation, new product development research, study on modern Chinese medicine processing techniques and clinical research cooperation with regard to such rare traditional Chinese medicinal materials as anoderma lucidum, dendrobium officinale and saffron. The company has undertaken over 60 major scientific and technological projects at the national, provincial and municipal levels, possessed 35 licensed patents, 16 of which are patents for invention, and won 23 national, provincial and municipal awards for progress in science and technology, including 1 second prize of national science and technology progress award and 16 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.

The people of ShouXianGu never forget their original intention. They always stick to the research and development of “safe, efficient and high-quality” products, aiming to build “No.1 organic TCM brand”. Starting with the source of TCM - genuine medicinal materials, the company has devoted itself to studying the fine varieties of high-quality and genuine medicinal materials. After years of efforts, it has successively bred 7 new improved varies of anoderma lucidum, dendrobium officinale and saffron with independent intellectual property rights.

Scientific and technological innovation has always been the core driving force of corporate growth, and brought great vitality to the development of TCM industry. ShouXianGu boasts more than 10 provincial research institutions like “Academicians & Experts Workstation” and “Zhejiang Rare Medicinal Plant Engineering Technology Research Center”, and a strong scientific research team consisting of experts and scholars with intimate knowledge of cutting-edge technologies, medicine, pharmacy and nutrition. The research team members are specialized in medicine, pharmacy, traditional Chinese medicine, food, edible fungi, microbiology, chemical detection and inspection, agriculture, nutrition, biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, etc. “Excellent in scientific research and sincere in quality”, they have combined the national intangible cultural heritage project “ShouXianGu’s TCM processing techniques” with modern science & technology, and continuously increased research and development input to facilitate the company’s innovative development.

By virtue of its independent innovation ability and decades of accumulated experience in scientific research, ShouXianGu has actively undertaken and participated in over 40 major scientific research projects at the national and provincial levels in recent years. The national key scientific research project “Research and Development of New Sporoderm-Broken Technologies for Ganoderma Lucidum Spore Powder” it has completed, adopting supersonic low-temperature airflow sporoderm-broken, sporoderm-removal and purification technologies, has effectively solved the problems of excessive heavy metals and product oxidation metamorphism existing in traditional sporoderm-broken technique. With this technology, the sporoderm of ganoderma lucidum spore, a non-medicinal part that makes up about two-thirds of spore and cannot be digested and absorbed by the body, is isolated. According to investigation and verification by Zhejiang Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (a national first-level sci-tech novelty retrieval unit), the content of active constituent of ShouXianGu’s third-generation sporoderm-removal ganoderma lucidum spore powder has been increased by more than 8 times.

This scientific research result being rated as Excellent Transformation Project of Zhejiang Province is also the most state-of-the-art patented product of ganoderma lucidum spore powder in the world and a revolutionary achievement that realizes the improvement of the quality and enrichment of ganoderma lucidum spore powder’s active constituent.

ShouXianGu’s series of products researched, developed and produced on the basis of the third-generation key technologies such as Sporoderm-Removal Ganoderma Lucidum Spore Powder, Sporoderm-broken Ganoderma Lucidum Spore Powder Tablets and Sporoderm-Removal Ganoderma Lucidum Spore Powder Granules feature high added value, safety, effectiveness and controllable quality. And they have no such key technical bottleneck problems which restrict the development of ganoderma lucidum industry, such as low content of active constituents and difficulty of being digested and absorbed by human body that are common in the second-generation sporoderm-removal ganoderma lucidum spore products. This gives the said products an edge over the competition.

According to information, ShouXianGu’s third-generation sporoderm-removal ganoderma lucidum spore powder products have been generally recognized by many experts and industry insiders as high-quality ganoderma lucidum spore powder and been selected as “scientific research cooperation product improving sub-health” by China Association of Chinese Medicine. Besides, they are also China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Preferred Product for Overseas Medical Cooperation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Recommended Product for China Medicine Education Association’s “Chronic Disease Prevention and Control” Initiative, and Key Recommended Product of “International Health Star of Traditional Chinese Medicine” in the 21st Century as listed at WHO Congress on Traditional Medicine.