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Ultra-high performance liquid chromatography(UPLC) is a new liquid chromatography technology,which developed on the basis of high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC).It has the characteristics of super high efficiency,high separation degree and high sensitivity,and has been widely used in the analysis of components in traditional Chinese medicine,the studies on metabolomics,establishment of fingerprint chromatogram,determination of unknown compounds combined with mass spectrometry and other detectors,etc.In this paper,the authors reviewed the application of UPLC in the field of traditional Chinese medicine through a review of the literature in the past 5 years,and summed up its relative advantages and development prospects,in order to provide scientific guidance and basis for pharmaceutical workers to make better use of UPLC technology.