[Information work of national census of traditional Chinese medicine resources]

In order to promote the protection, development and rational utilization on traditional Chinese medicine resources (TCM resoueces), the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine is organizing and implementing the fourth national survey on TCM resources. Informatization is the core for this survey and is also one of the main innovative points which transcend the previous three surveys. The extensive application on informatization technology has not only improved the work efficiency of the survey, but also expanded the new development directions of TCM resources research. In order to give full play to the leading role of informatization on leading the innovation in the survey, the survey office organized relevant researchers to sort out the relevant information during the pilot work and wrote a series of articles to form a special issue of informationization work on TCM resources. It demonstrated the staged achievements of informatization in the survey from 5 aspects which are including the overall progress of the survey, the collection and compilation of the core indicators, the development of the database software systems, the national planning and implementation supported by big data and the study of single species. During the pilot phase, the survey data was collected and gathered by using the modern technology, the demonstration applications was developed based on the data information which is serving the relevant organizational administration and scientific research on TCM resources, which injected a new impetus to the healthy and sustainable development of traditional Chinese medicine.