At last year's Asian CITES conference in Beijing, the mainland brought up the idea of applying to CITES to have the farmed bears treated as second-list animals. This would have given Taiwan's Chinese medicine dealers hope of having CITES-sanctioned access to drained gall.
去年在北京舉行的第三屆東亞野熊會議上，大陸就提到將向華約組織申請讓熊場的熊，降為可以交易的第二類，國內中藥商也抱著引流膽能夠合法使用的希望。