Foreign practitioners and students of traditional Chinese medicine gained firsthand insights into China's time-honored herbal medicine culture during a visit to the Darentang Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Museum in Tianjin on Sept 21. [Photo by Jin Beiyi/For chinadaily.com.cn]

Luiz Moreira from Brazil commented: "This is a fantastic hands-on experience. We get to touch and smell real medicinal herbs and observe processing procedures. The herbal scent is really refreshing."

Rui Goncalues from Portugal was struck by the company's long-standing legacy. "What impresses me most is Darentang's centuries-old history. It is remarkable for an enterprise to keep innovating and developing new products over such a long span of time," he said.