中医药在我国历史悠久，具有独特的整体观、辩证论治的治疗模式以及低毒性和疗效确切的特点，越来越受到各国人民的重视和欢迎。21世纪之初，在我国加入WTO之后，建立和完善规范化的中药生产、科研体系，促进中药现代化，实现中药与国际接轨，意义重大。文章论述了中药现代化的目的，中药现代化的发展、创新，中药现代化的主要内容，指出了中药现代化应注意的几个问题。

Chinese Medicine (CM) becomes more and more attractive and welcome to the world, for its unique medical theory and certain therapeutic effect with few side effects. With China's entering WTO, it is very important to establish a standardized system for the production and research of Chinese Herbs (CH), push forward the modernization of CH and make CH accepted to the world.

The goals of the modernization of CH are： establishing perfect research and production systems, strengthening.

The research of CH, developing high quality, effective, stable and dependable new Chinese herbs, and improving the therapeutic effect of CH to ensure the health of the people, making CH go to the world.

The guarantee of the modernization of CH are： the integration of CM and CH, the integration of CM and modern medicine, and the integration of inheriting and innovating.

The main contents of the modernization of CH include： the modernization of the theory of CM, the modernization of GH resources and its generation, the modernization of medieal materials and Yin Pian, the modernization of preparation, the modernization of the pharmacological research of CH, the modernization of the toxicological research of CH, the modernization of the clinic research of CH, and the modernization of the CH enterprises.