China is the birthplace of Chinese Patent Medicine, and a major producer and consumer of Chinese patent medicine in the world. Driven by both policy incentives and market demand, Chinese patent medicine has developed well in China. From 2006 to 2009, China’s industrial output value and sales revenue of Chinese patent medicine grew at annual rates of 13.9% and 12.7% respectively. The terminal sales revenue of Chinese patent medicine has always accounted for about 30% of the total pharmaceutical revenue of China since 2006. As of August 2010, there had been 1,522 Chinese patent medicine manufacturers in China, including over 30 listed companies, such as Tasly, Tongrentang and Yunnan Baiyao; there had been over 10,000 kinds of Chinese patent medicine, such as Tasly’s Compound Danshen Dripping Pill (Fu Fang Dan Shen Di Wan), Tongrentang’s Bolus of Six Drugs Including Rehmannia (Liu Wei Di Huang Wan) and Bolus of Black-bone Chicken (Wu Ji Bai Feng Wan); there had been over 40 dosage forms, such as traditional bolus, ointment, powder and pellet as well as modern capsule, tablet and spray.