Abstract: The forest area in Heilongjiang Province is 1, 5771 million hm², and is 36.8% of the total area of Heilongjiang Province, and 12.5% of the total forest area of China. There is rich medicinal plant resource in the forest. The investigation showed that the number of medicinal plant species is 724, belonging to 110 families, 410 genus, and of the commodity medicinal plant species is 352, belonging to 91 families and 250 genus. The medicinal plant resource is divided into two regions based on endemic segregation regular pattern in the forest region of the province. At present the medicinal plant resource reduced seriously because of over digging and over grazing and the environmental degradation in the forest. Now the number of indangered species of medicinal plant is 8, and 19 species is nearly danger. In order to protect medicinal plant resource 11national and 21 provincial conservation districts were set. At the same time, the plantations of medicinal plants, such as Panax ginseng, Getiana scabra, Astragalus membranaceus, Panax quinquefolium, Acanthopanax senticosus, Schisandra chinensis and so on were built. The development strategies about medicinal plants in Heilongjiang Province is to protect the rare and imminent species, to breed them with advanced bio-techniques, to improve the pharmaceutical technology, and to exploit high-quality products from medicinal plants.

Key words: medicinal plant resource, conversation, exploit, ditricting