July 18, 2011 -- China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), which has responsibility for controlling prices in China, decided on a dramatic course of action to lower the high cost of TCM raw materials. The NDRC told anyone who has a supply of codonopsis pilosula, an important TCM herb more popularly known as radix, that they must sell their supplies – and then set a low price as the ceiling at which the transactions must take place. To show that it is deadly serious, the NDRC ordered the worst offenders to sell their stockpiles within one week. More details....
