For thousands of years, Chinese established a series of scientific and systematic Chinese medical theories base their practice and experience battle with various of diseases. The profound knowledge of TCM has made significant contribution to the disease control and treatment, healing and health protection, and even the multiply, prosperous and success of Chinese nations. It played great facilitate functions to the development of medical science of all over the world.

Since the People's Republic of China was founded, the Chinese Government attached great importance to the development of Chinese Medicine causes. A provision of the Constitution of the State includes contents such as "to develop modern medicines and traditional medicines of our country", thus provided essential legal recognition to TCM.

Since the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the cause of Chinese Medicines have achieved quiet great progress under deliberate concerns from government at various level jointly with effort of whole Chinese medical practitioners. The specific administrative department, science research institutions and teaching facilities have come into existence officially, the system provide the development of Chinese Medicine Science with a effective framework of guarantee.

While caring out the policy of reforming and opening, the industry of Chinese Medicine at the national level at all time keeps its tendency with high developing speed compared with average national economy increasing rate. It takes full advantages of integration bodies of agriculture, industry and commerce, and good combination of producing, supplying and marketing. The Chinese Medicine industry selected quiet a lot of locations to produce authentic medicinal material with high quality and so-called green medicinal materials. Thus make the producing of Chinese medicinal materials coming to reach a level of both intensive and extensive features. During the above process, the producing bases had been established with a preliminary scale. According inadequacy statistics, at present totally more than 5,000 Chinese herb-medicine propagating ground have been constructed, it means more that 10,000 thousands Chinese acres (mu) land cultivated with herb-medicinal materials. The annual revenue of those cultivation is more than 16,000 millions of Chinese dollars. The overall production value of national Chinese medicine industry is more than 30,000 millions, it includes 7,000 millions of drinking tablet, nearly 20,000 millions of Chinese medicinal health care production. Total production value of Chinese medicines ups to 37,000 millions of Chinese dollars.

On December 9, 1996, the first national public health working conference was convened by the State Council. Top leaders such President Jiang Zemin, Premier Li Peng and other State leaders presented their view of points to the conference. One important fruit of the conference was "the decision from Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council on reform and development of public health". The conference and the decision affirmed Chinese Medicine's historical status, legal status, science status and its substantial achievements. "Pay equal attention to Chinese Medicine and western medicine, and develop traditional Chinese Medicine" was clearly stated as general guidelines for the development of TCM. It requires and urges all Chinese medical affairs practitioners actively to mobilize every accessed modern technology to boost the development of TCM both in theories and practices, to fulfil the purpose of TCM's modernization and make it to better protect and promote public health situation of Chinese nations.