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GB/T 46209-2025Specification for information description of Chinese materia medica resources (English PDF)

中药资源的信息描述规范

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Issued by

SAMR; SAC

Level / Type

National · Recommended

Issue date

October 5, 2025

Implementation date

February 1, 2026

Scope

GB/T 46209-2025 is the English-translated version of 中药资源的信息描述规范.

GB/T 46209-2025 is the Chinese standard "Specification for information description of Chinese materia medica resources".

Its scope clause reads: This document defines the terminology and definitions for information on traditional Chinese medicine resources, specifies information description requirements, data element coding rules, and other related content, and describes...

The corresponding verification methods were proposed. This document is applicable to guiding the data collection, exchange, and sharing of information on traditional Chinese medicine resources. Its clauses include terms and definitions.

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National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS: 01.040.11
Classification: C 23

Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC

Preface
Introduction
1.Scope
2 Normative References
3.Terms and Definitions
4.General Requirements for Information Description
4.1 Identifier
4.2 Name
4.3 Definitions (Explanation)
4.4 Data Types
4.5 Data Format
4.6 Units of Measurement
4.7 Value Range
4.8 Constraints/Conditions
5.Requirements for describing information on traditional Chinese medicine resources
5.1 Overview
5.2 Basic Information
5.3 Natural Information
5.4 Human Information
5.5 New Resource Information
5.6 Germplasm Resource Information
5.7 Specimen Information
5.8 Traditional Knowledge and Information on Chinese Medicinal Herbs Resources (30 items)
6.Data element encoding rule
6.1 Coding Rules for Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources
6.2 Germplasm Resource Coding Rules
6.3 Specimen Collection Coding Rules
7.Verification Method
References

1 Scope

This document defines the terminology and definitions for information on traditional Chinese medicine resources, specifies information description requirements, data element coding rules, and other related content, and describes...

The corresponding verification methods were proposed.

This document is applicable to guiding the data collection, exchange, and sharing of information on traditional Chinese medicine resources.

2 Normative references

The contents of the following documents, through normative references within the text, constitute essential provisions of this document. Dated citations are not included.

For references to documents, only the version corresponding to that date applies to this document; for undated references, the latest version (including all amendments) applies.

This document.

GB/T 2260-2007 Administrative Division Codes of the People's Republic of China

GB/T 2659.1-2022 Codes for the Names of Countries and Regions and Their Administrative Divisions Part 1.Country and Region Codes

GB 3100-1993 International System of Units and its Applications

GB/T 3304-1991 Romanization and Codes for the Names of Ethnic Groups in China

GB/T 7408.1-2023 Representation for the Interchange of Date and Time Information - Part 1.Basic Principles

GB/T 31774-2015 Rules and Codes for Coding Traditional Chinese Medicine

3 Terms and Definitions

The terms and definitions defined in GB/T 31774-2015, as well as the following terms and definitions, apply to this document.

3.1

The total amount of various medicinal plants, fungi, animals, and minerals distributed in a certain region or area, and their reserves.

3.2 Chinese medicinal herbs

Raw medicinal materials are made from the medicinal parts of medicinal plants, fungi, animals, minerals, etc., after initial processing at the place of origin.

[Source. GB/T 31774-2015, 3.2, with modifications]

3.3

The knowledge and experience of ethnic and local medicines that have been passed down and applied continuously among the people.

3.4 data element

A data unit whose definition, identification, expression, and allowed values are defined by a set of attributes.

[Source. GB/T 18391.1-2009, 3.3.8]

3.5 coding

The process of mapping elements of one set to elements of another set according to certain rules.

GB/T 44828 | GB/T 41907 | […]

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Edition	Title	Revision	Status
GB/T 46209-2025	Specification for information description of Chinese materia medica resources	current edition	Current

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