Objective: To establish a national management system on the utilization and protection, reserves and wastes of Chinese medicinal resources, and provide a scientific basis for the national administering authorities for the macro-management.
Method: Many modern high technologies of community ecology, statistics, 3S technologies (remote sensing RS, geographic information system GIS, global positioning system GPS) and computer information system were based upon, and a national monitoring and protection system for the Chinese medicinal resources was set up.
Result and conclusion: The national Chinese medicinal macro-management system will integrate modern high technologies with administrative supervision, so as to protect Chinese medicinal resources and economy towards a sustainable utilization and development, and finally make our country and people more prosperous and powerful.