This article describes the advantages for the development of staple genuine medicinal materials in Hunan Province, such as the favourable conditions of climate, a long history of cultivation, an adequate scale of production bases, relatively perfect sale network, great attention paid by the governments of all levels, people's high activity, relatively extensive dissemination of science and technology and the fair abilities of deep processing and development of medicinal products. In the meantime, it sums up the problems existing in the production and makes rational proposals for the developmen...