In the first three quarters of 2006, the total sales value of top seven medicine merchandises in China amounted to RMB 211.838 billion, up by 8.07% year-on-year, among which, the total sales value of drug reached RMB 156.805 billion, increased by 7.34% over the same period of 2005; total sales value of Chinese traditional patent medicine totalled RMB 37.205 billion, up by 10.06% compared a year earlier.