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Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)is a precious treasure of the Chinese nation and has unique advantages in the pre-vention and treatment of diseases.The holistic view of TCM coincides with the new generation of medical research paradigm charac-terized by network and system.TCM gave birth to a new method featuring holistic and systematic“network target”,a core theory and method of network pharmacology.TCM is also an important research object of network pharmacology.TCM network pharmacology,which aims to understand the network-based biological basis of complex diseases,TCM syndromes and herb treatments,plays a critic-al role in the origin and development process of network pharmacology.This review introduces new progresses of TCM network phar-macology in recent years,including predicting herb targets,understanding biological foundation of diseases and syndromes,network regulation mechanisms of herbal formulae,and identifying disease and syndrome biomarkers based on biological network.These stud-ies show a trend of combining computational,experimental and clinical approaches,which is a promising direction of TCM network pharmacology research in the future.Considering that TCM network pharmacology is still a young research field,it is necessary to fur-ther standardize the research process and evaluation indicators to promote its healthy development.