Q: Is the time-honored brand of China the oldest business name in China?
Answer: Your statement is also correct, but the name of China time-honored brand is not a casual use, China time-honored brand refers to a brand with a long history, products, skills or services that have been passed down from generation to generation, have a distinctive traditional cultural background of the Chinese nation and profound cultural heritage, and have been widely recognized by the society and formed a good reputation. China's time-honored brand is jointly recognized by the Ministry of Commerce and other five ministries and commissions.
Q: So how many time-honored Chinese brands are there now?
A: At present, a total of 1,455 enterprises across the country have been approved as China's time-honored brands.
Q: I am more interested in traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure of our Chinese nation, with a deep history, there will definitely be many Chinese time-honored brands of traditional Chinese medicine, right?
Answer: Yes, traditional Chinese medicine is an outstanding representative of traditional Chinese culture, among the 1,455 Chinese time-honored brands, there are nearly 150 Chinese time-honored brands in the category of traditional Chinese medicine, accounting for more than 10 percent.
Q: Since it is a time-honored brand, it must be a long age, how many years of history can it be recognized as a Chinese time-honored brand?
Answer: At present, the standard for the recognition of Chinese time-honored brands is at least 50 years of history, but as I said earlier, the recognition of Chinese time-honored brands is not only a long history, but also a product, skill or service that has been passed down from generation to generation, has a distinct traditional cultural background of the Chinese nation and profound cultural heritage, and has been widely recognized by the society and formed a brand with a good reputation.
Q: Fifty years isn't a long time, not as old as my dad.
Answer: 50 years is just a minimum standard, in fact, most of the history of China's time-honored brands is more than 50 years, taking the pharmaceutical class of China's time-honored brands as an example, the shortest history is North China Pharmaceutical, which has the eldest son of the Republic's pharmaceutical industry, which began in 1953 and has a history of 71 years.
Q: Is there a longer age, let's say, 400-year-old?
Answer: An excellent time-honored brand will often go through a hundred or hundreds of years of inheritance, and there are 7 Chinese time-honored brands in the Chinese medicine category with a history of more than 400 years.
Q: What are the 7 of them?
Answer: Kunming Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory, Beijing Heniantang, Shanxi Guangyuyuan, Zhangzhou Pien Tze Huang, Guangshengyuan Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ma Yinglong, Chen Liji.
Q: There is no Tong Ren Tang, I have the impression that Tong Ren Tang seems to be very old.
Answer: The history of Tong Ren Tang is relatively long, but it is not enough for 400 years, only 355 years, if you sort by history, Tong Ren Tang ranks 12th among the time-honored brands of traditional Chinese medicine.
Q: So there are 12 Chinese time-honored brands with a history of more than 300 years?
Answer: There are a total of 13 Chinese time-honored brands of traditional Chinese medicine with a history of more than 300 years, in addition to the 7 mentioned above, there are 6 in historical order, such as Xiamen Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory, Wuhan Jianmin, Jiuzhitang, Foshan Feng Liaoxing, Beijing Tongrentang, and **Ganlu Tibetan Medicine.
Q: I found that one of the 13 Chinese medicine companies has a special name, and the others are all traditional Chinese medicine factories or pharmaceutical factories, and only the fifth ranked Guangsheng was originally called traditional Chinese medicine, why is this?
Answer: You can see this, in fact, not only in China's time-honored brand, in all the traditional Chinese medicine enterprises are currently called only Guangshengyuan, in 2019, the original Datong Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory resumed the old name and changed its name on the day of the National Conference of Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is said that Guangshengyuan is currently the only enterprise upgraded from a traditional Chinese medicine factory to traditional Chinese medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine is inseparable.
Q: The origins of these time-honored Chinese medicine brands with a long history must have some origins, right?
Answer: Yes, every Chinese time-honored brand is a legendary story, let's talk about it here today, next time we will talk about the story of the origin of these Chinese time-honored Chinese brands in traditional Chinese medicine.