| China has abundant tobacco resources, however, the development of tobacco industry is undiversified,
mostly concentrated in the cigarette industry. This not only fails to make full use of the characteristic tobacco plant
resources, but also causes a great waste of tobacco leaves and stems and environmental pollution brought by cigarette
industry. Under the background of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan and the new era of“healthy China”, the diversified
development and high-value utilization of tobacco resources has gradually become a new development direction. The
tobacco plants contain many functional active components, which provide material basis and resource guarantee for their development and utilization. Especially, the characteristic alkaloids of the tobacco plants such as nicotine and its derivatives,
terpenes solanesol and cembratrien-diol, phenol-like rutin and chlorogenic acid and other substances, and pharmaceutical
products produced by tobacco with genetic engineering, are foundation in green pesticide, nutrition, health and human
biological medicine with valuable application value. Based on the current situation of the development of tobacco industry,
this paper analyzed the tobacco resources in modern circulation agriculture, green agricultural control, new energy industry,
medicine, health, tobacco transgenic engineering and the considerable prospect in such areas. In addition, it put forward
practical and feasible research suggestions for the diversified development and utilization of tobacco. It is hoped that the
government will strengthen guidance and funding, coordinate scientific research platforms and talents in agriculture, industry,
medicine and other aspects, sort out the tobacco resource control policy, start to transform waste tobacco and“harmful
tobacco”into functional tobacco and healthy tobacco from the overall situation, and actively promote the transformation and
upgrading of traditional tobacco industry to achieve the sustainable development that benefits for the economy and society. |
