In June, three major industry events kicked off in Shanghai one after another. The HNC Health Nutrition Expo, FiA Food Ingredients Exhibition, and CPHI China World Pharmaceutical Raw Materials Fair gathered the entire big health industry. Tech-inno made a full appearance with its core technologies, herbal products, and innovative raw materials, engaging in in-depth industry exchanges. This exhibition clearly highlighted two core directions: herbal natural products becoming the mainstream trend, and cutting-edge technologies leading industrial transformation.
Unwavering Popularity: Herbal-Medicine-Food Homology Becomes the "Traffic Code" of the Exhibition
Currently, the consumer market's demand for natural, healthy, and additive-free products continues to rise. The herbal track rooted in Eastern health preservation culture, which features homology of medicine and food, has become the most eye-catching section of this exhibition.
From functional foods and nutritional diets to oral beauty products, herbal raw materials, herbal formulas, and herbal extracts are highly favored. Traditional Chinese herbal medicine is no longer limited to a single nourishment scenario. It has gradually expanded across boundaries to multiple fields such as food and cosmetics. Authentic regional herbal medicines, classic famous prescriptions, and natural plant ingredients have received key attention from purchasers and brand owners. It is not hard to see that relying on the profound heritage of thousands of years of herbal culture and carrying out innovative development in combination with modern consumer demands has become an irreversible development trend in the big health industry, and the herbal economy is entering a stage of rapid growth.
Tech-inno accurately grasps the market trend and takes herbal essence as its core development direction. Relying on four R&D centers, ten laboratories, and two intelligent manufacturing centers - Guangdong Qingyunshan Pharmaceutical and Ganzhou Helv Kangjian, it has opened up the entire chain of raw material planting, extraction and processing, and finished product production. More than ten mature standard herbal products were exhibited on site, covering classic prescription products in popular functional directions, fully demonstrating the diversified application potential of herbal ingredients, and allowing industry partners to see mature solutions for the modernization and implementation of traditional herbal medicine.
Ingenuity Empowers Herbal Medicine: Technology Drives the Value Upgrade of Herbal Raw Materials
If herbal medicine is the foundation of industrial development, cutting-edge technologies are the core driving force to break through industry bottlenecks and enhance product added value. This exhibition has a strong atmosphere of technical exchanges. Various innovative technologies such as extraction and purification, digital intelligent production, and ingredient activation have become the focus of industry discussions. Empowering production with technology and creating differentiation through R&D has become the industry consensus.
Tech-inno focused on exhibiting two independent technology platforms and a complete process system at this exhibition, concentrating on demonstrating its technological R&D capabilities. At the exhibition site, Si Congcong, Director of the R&D Center of Tech-inno, and Dang Xin, Director of the ODM Business Center, gave in-depth explanations of the two core technology platforms.
Jicui™ Efficacy Ingredient Technology Platform: This technology platform is a full-link intelligent manufacturing technology system for plant active ingredients, which is tailor-made for the R&D, production, and application of plant functional raw materials. It integrates multiple self-developed processes in extraction, activity locking, purification, biological modification, synergistic delivery, and safety purification, breaking the limitations of traditional plant extraction processes. At the same time, it is equipped with an exclusive flavor optimization technology to upgrade the taste and flavor of products on the premise of preserving activity and efficacy. Relying on multiple technical advantages, it breaks through the barriers of traditional applications, broadens the applicable scenarios of products, and realizes the integrated quality upgrade from natural plant raw materials to high-end functional finished products. It is the core technical base that supports the implementation of products with high activity, high absorption, high purity, high stability, excellent flavor, and wide adaptability.
DIMT® Digital Intelligent Decoction Platform: It reconstructs the traditional decoction process with digital and intelligent technologies, realizing the standardized and large-scale mass production of classic famous prescriptions, enabling the rapid commercialization of traditional herbal formulas while taking into account the essence of ancient methods and modern production efficiency.
In addition, a number of cutting-edge new cosmetic raw materials such as MitoYouth® Urolithin A and SenoFis™ Fisetin were exhibited on site. Relying on advanced plant active ingredient technology, they realize the cross-border application of herbal raw materials and break the industrial boundary between food and daily chemical products. Many customers conducted in-depth negotiations on process principles, technology implementation, customized solutions, human trials and other contents, and the enterprise's full-link technical service capabilities have been widely recognized.
Exclusive Sharing: From Pharmacopoeia to Skincare, the Transformation Code of Eastern Plant Raw Materials
During the exhibition, Yang Ke, Minister of the Science Department, was invited to attend the 2026 Pharmaceutical Raw Materials · Technology · Channel Empowerment Innovation and Development Exchange Conference for the Beauty Industry. He delivered a keynote speech titled From Pharmacopoeia to Skincare: Innovative Transformation of Eastern Plant Functional Raw Materials, deeply dissecting the technical paths and compliance points for Eastern herbal medicine to enter the cross-border beauty track, bringing extremely valuable cutting-edge sharing to the industry.
Minister Yang Ke mentioned that among the more than 300 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines included in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, there are a wealth of categories that overlap with cosmetic raw materials. However, only a few ingredients such as glycyrrhizic acid and asiaticoside have achieved mature commercial applications, and a large number of high-quality resources are still trapped in the industrial gap of "having literature records but no standards, no data, and no transformation".
Centering on the core differences between pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, cases of transforming classic pharmacopoeia varieties into cosmetic ingredients, core technical challenges and solutions, the report systematically dismantles the whole process path from pharmacopoeia origin to formula implementation, and focuses on sharing practical experience in key links such as raw material screening, active ingredient extraction, quality standard establishment, efficacy data verification and compliance filing.
Qingyunshan Pharmaceutical Won the "Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Innovation Leading Enterprise Award"
During this exhibition, Qingyunshan Pharmaceutical won the "Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Innovation Leading Enterprise" award for its intelligent manufacturing innovation achievements in the field of medicine-food homology.
Qingyunshan Pharmaceutical has been deeply engaged in the big health field for more than 35 years, and has always adhered to producing functional foods with the high standards of pharmaceuticals. It relies on joint medicinal material planting bases at the source to control the quality of raw materials, is equipped with DCS intelligent online control production lines, and realizes closed-loop production through the whole-process intelligent production lines. It also integrates
GMP quality management into the whole chain of harvesting, processing, quality inspection and packaging, and builds a solid foundation for product safety with full-chain quality control.
The June exhibition came to a successful conclusion, intuitively confirming the mainstream development directions of the industry: naturalization of herbal ingredients, technologicalization of production, and diversification of products. Traditional herbal medicine is rejuvenated with the help of modern science and technology, and innovative technologies realize their value based on the herbal track. The two complement each other, promoting the big health industry to transform towards refinement and high-end. This exhibition is not only a display of achievements, but also an in-depth industry exchange. In the future, Tech-inno will continue to base itself on the origin of herbal medicine, continuously iterate its core technology platforms, enrich the matrix of medicine-food homologous products, and optimize the whole industrial chain service. It will persist in activating the new value of herbal medicine with technology, meeting market demands with high-quality products, and work together with industry colleagues to jointly promote the high-quality development of the big health industry, so that the wisdom of herbal medicine can be integrated into the daily life of the public.