Bozhou has a civilization history of 3,700 years since the capital of Shang Tang was established. It is the hometown of Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty. Influenced by a generation of famous doctors, Bozhou promoted the development of medicine. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bozhou had become one of the four major drug capitals in China. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Bozhou had become an important "drug capital", with drug dealers, drug stores and drug number giants, and distributed more than 2,000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines. Now Bozhou has developed into the largest distribution center and price formation center of medicinal materials in the world. Medicinal materials have become one of the four economic pillars in Bozhou, and the Bozhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government insists on rejuvenating the city with medicinal materials, making it "the first city of medicinal materials in China".
Bozhou medicinal materials market center covers an area of 400 mu, with 1000 Chinese medicinal materials shops. The magnificent modern office building has a building area of more than 7,000 square meters, including the office of China Pharmaceutical Capital Investment Co., Ltd., the large-screen quotation system, the TV system in the trading hall, the China Pharmaceutical Capital Information Center, the sales department of high-quality Chinese herbal medicine seeds and seedlings, the testing center of Chinese herbal medicine seedlings, and the boutique supermarket of Chinese herbal medicine pieces. The daily trading volume of Chinese herbal medicines is as high as 6,000 tons, and there are more than 2,600 varieties on the market. The daily passenger flow is about 50,000-60,000 people, and the turnover of Chinese herbal medicine department is about 654.38+0 billion yuan. Zhang, Minister of Health, named Bozhou as "China Drug Capital" and wrote an inscription encouraging: "Carry forward the spirit and run Bozhou Drug Capital well".