Decision No.1976/QD-TTg approving the master plan on medicinal plant development through 2020, with orientations toward 2030.

This Decision approves the master plan on medicinal plant development through 2020, with orientations toward 2030. Its principal contents are: to sustainably develop medicinal plant resources on the basis of efficient use of every potential to develop medicinal plant zones in association with preservation and rational exploitation of natural medicinal plant, and protection of biodiversity and ecological environment. To develop medicinal plants toward commodity production to meet market demands, associating material production with product consumption, building of medicinal plant zones with processing industry, diversification of the product structure to ensure safety, quality and high competitiveness, meeting domestic consumption and export demands. The State supports exploitation of natural medicinal plants, medicinal plant cultivation, and processing of medicinal plants and their products. To encourage various economic sectors to invest in the development of medicinal plant cultivation, further export medicinal plants and their products, contributing to the gradual increase of the proportion of pharmaceutical industry in the gross domestic product (GDP).