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OBJECTIVE: To explore the motive force factors of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy emerging and provide advises for development of Chinese pharmacy education. METHODS: The motive force factors of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy emerging were analyzed using literature research and historical research methods based on text. RESULTS: The rapid development of American pharmaceutical education in nineteenth Century is the fundamental emerging motive force of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. They are mainly manifested in the way of teaching, teaching content, teachers' strength and the number of pharmaceutical colleges and universities. The problems faced by American pharmaceutical education are the realistic emerging impetus of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. They are mainly manifested in different qualifications for admission, different requirements for qualifications, different academic system, confusing degree, conservative and outdated association organization of pharmaceutical colleges and universities and vicious competition among pharmacy colleges and universities. The effort of the people of insight in the American pharmaceutical education is the direct emerging motive force of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. CONCLUSION: China pharmacy education should strengthen the connotation construction of the pharmacy colleges, deepen the reform of pharmaceutical education with a problem oriented approach and give full play to the role of experts and scholars in the pharmaceutical education field.