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After a description of the studies on spreading of traditional Chinese medicine in France, the signifi-cance and process of constructing the archive library of pictures and their accompanying essays on spreading of tra-ditional Chinese medicine in France , the precious documents on traditional Chinese and Western medicine in Yun-nan Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine were arranged according to the accumulated data and achievements in previous studies on the spreading of traditional Chinese medicine in France, a key national social foundation-supported project of the State Chinese Medicine Administration Bureau during the Twelfth-Five Year Plan period. The spreading history of traditional Chinese medicine in France was summarized with the methods used in studies on anthropology , archive and information science .Digital protection of the pictures and their accompanying essays on spreading of traditional Chinese medicine in France was studied.An archive library of pictures and their accompan-ying essays on spreading of traditional Chinese medicine in France was established with multiple functions.