With the strong support from Chinese government,lots of new researchers on traditional Chinese medicines(TCMs) from different aspects have been developing in order to explore the working mechanism of Chinese medicines.The analysis and quality control of Chinese medicines are steadily moving towards an integrative and comprehensive direction,in order to better address the inherent holistic nature of TCMs with the help of new analytical techniques,including chemical and biological ones.The new techniques in analysis of traditional Chinese medicines and their quality control are firstly reviewed briefly in the paper.Several techniques for quality control of Chinese medicines are discussed in some detail.It is illustrated that the quality of Chinese medicines could be efficiently controlled with the help of modern analytical techniques.