Relying on the two provincial key disciplines of Crop Science, Crop Cultivation and Cultivation, and the doctoral program of the first-level discipline of Crop Science, this major takes advantage of Yunnan's rich resources of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and focuses on cultivating solid medicinal plant cultivation, traditional Chinese medicine identification, and medicinal materials. High-quality compound talents with quality inspection and other abilities. It is mainly based on undergraduate education, with two master's programs of "Botany" and "Medicinal Plant Resources", and has a complete education system of undergraduate-master-doctoral degree.

Relying on national and provincial platforms such as the Southwest Chinese Herbal Medicine Germplasm Innovation and Utilization National and Local Joint Engineering Center, the Provincial Superior Chinese Herbal Medicine Standardized Planting Engineering Center, the Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biology, and the Provincial Crop Science Experiment Center, etc. Undergraduate teaching and graduation thesis practice.