Problems Concerning Scientific Research and Industrial Production of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica(CMM)
中药科研与产业的问题及对策

Based on a review of the situation and task the traditional Chinese pharmaceutical researchers and industrialists are faced with on the eve of entering into the WTO, it is pointed out in the paper that there exist presently six problems concerning the research and development of CMM: (l) industrial policies, (2) illusive manifestation of diseases and pharmacodynamic indexes, (3) quality of Chinese medicinal preparations, (4) repetition of research and development at low levels, (5)tackling a single key problem at the cost of many departments and (6) investment in scientific research and industrial production. Through careful analyses of the above-cited problems the paper puts forward five suggestions for scientific research and industrial production of CMM under the new situation.