Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has conducted pharmaceutical botany extracurricular activities such as the experiment skill competition

fieldwork

specimen prepara-tion

resources investigation

database construction

pharmaceutical plants cultivating and participating in scientific research projects etc. These activities have improved the students' learning enthusiasm

strengthened the effect of first classroom teaching

and have played a positive role especially in im-proving students' experimental skills and cultivating their innovative thinking and abilities

and improv-ing teachers' quality.