China News Service, Nanning, November 14th (Huang Yanmei, Wang Weichen, Xu Zhengnan) The opening ceremony of the third Guangxi Medicinal Diet Competition Finals and Medicinal Food Homology Industry Development Conference was held on the 14th at Guangxi Vocational and Technical University. The event integrates competition, industrial exchange, achievement display, cultural dissemination and people-benefiting experience. It is not only a centralized review of medicinal dietary skills, but also an exchange event that promotes the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine culture and promotes the integrated development of medicine and food industries.
This event is co-sponsored by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Health Commission, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Department of Commerce, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Family Planning Association.
The Guangxi Medicinal Diet Competition finals, with the theme of "Meals carry forward the Chinese quintessence for thousands of years and start a new journey of health", set up three major events: individual competition, team competition and invitational competition. It adopted a combination of theoretical assessment and practical competition, attracting 89 teams and 391 contestants to participate. Among them, the invitational competition teams come from all over China as well as Vietnam, Thailand and other countries.
On the competition field, the contestants focused on the theme of medicated diet, from raw material selection, medicinal and food compatibility, nutritional matching to cooking skills and flavor presentation, fully demonstrating their understanding and innovation of traditional medicated diet culture. How to make medicinal materials and food ingredients complement each other, and how to retain traditional health care concepts while taking into account the taste needs of modern people, have become important tests for contestants to demonstrate their professional abilities and innovative thinking.
The judging team of this competition brings together experts from many fields such as traditional Chinese medicine, Zhuangyao medicine, nutrition, cooking, food safety, etc. to conduct a comprehensive review focusing on the scientific compatibility, medication safety, efficacy explanation, nutritional matching, cooking skills, flavor and texture, and creative expression. The competition focuses on ensuring that the use of medicinal materials is compliant, the dosage is appropriate, and the compatibility is appropriate to ensure the professionalism and standardization of the competition.
At the opening ceremony, the expert consensus on "Gui Herbal Diet" was released and a number of cooperation agreements were signed. The Medicinal and Food Homogenous Industry Development Conference held at the same time invited experts from all walks of life to give keynote reports on the research and development of medicinal and food homologous products, smart elderly care, blockchain technology applications, development trends of the medicinal and food homologous industry, etc., and conducted exchanges from multiple dimensions such as technological innovation, product research and development, industrial applications and market development, providing new ideas and new paths for the high-quality development of Guangxi's medicinal and food homologous industry.
The conference innovated the exhibition format and set up a main venue and sub-venues to focus on displaying diverse contents such as raw materials and products of the same origin as medicine and food, intangible cultural heritage techniques, artificial intelligence applications, cultural and creative products, and comprehensively presented new achievements in the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries of traditional Chinese medicine.
In addition, the conference adheres to the combination of cultural dissemination and public participation, integrating medicinal food tasting, traditional Chinese medicine cultural experience, free clinic services and other contents into the entire event, allowing the public to feel the charm of traditional Chinese medicine culture through participation, experience and tasting. The conference also innovatively launched a youth medicated diet dating meeting based on the characteristics of the youth group; it also launched an online Q&A activity on traditional Chinese medicine knowledge to popularize traditional Chinese medicine health knowledge in the form of interesting questions.
In recent years, Guangxi has attached great importance to the inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine (Zhuangyao medicine), and has integrated the traditional Chinese medicine industry into the top ten modern pillar industries of the manufacturing industry, and promoted it as a core sector of the biomedicine and health industry. Focusing on the high-quality development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry, Guangxi has implemented a three-year action for the high-quality development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry, focused on building a public brand of "Gui Medicinal Diet", and further broadened the supply channels of medicinal dietary raw materials by improving the management system of Chinese medicinal materials for local specialty foods and laying a solid foundation for industrial development.
Jiang Jian, president of the China Medicinal Diet Research Association, said that Guangxi has relied on Zhongzhuang Yao’s medicinal heritage and authentic medicinal material resources to promote the medicated diet industry into a development stage of policy empowerment, brand acceleration, and full-chain upgrading. It was the first to release a substance catalog of 14 local specialty foods, the first to implement the professional skill level certification of medicated diet makers, carefully cultivated the characteristic brand of "Gui medicated diet", and gradually built an integrated development system of high-quality raw materials, standardized standards, and diversified applications, providing useful experience for the innovative development of national medicated diets.
