Abstract: This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of adding Chinese herbal medicine in diets on growth performance，carcass traits and meat quality of finishing pigs.A total of 60 crossbred (Duroc×(Landrace×Yorkshire)) finishing pigs with an average body weight of (61.87±0.90)kg were randomly divided into 2 groups with 3 replicates in each group and each replicate contained 10 finishing pigs (the ratio of male and female was equal).The control group was fed with the basal diet without antibiotics，the experimental group was fed the basal diets supplemented with 0.1% Chinese herbal medicine.The experimental period lasted for 42 days.The results showed that compared with the control group，ADFI and ADG of experimental group were improved （P＞0.05），F/G of experimental group was decreased （P＞0.05），whereas the diarrhea rate and morbidity of experimental group were highly significantly reduced （P＜0.01）. Experimental group increased the carcass weight，dressing percentage，leanness，long body straight，body length，loin muscle area by 1.28%，1.80%，0.16%，0.50%，0.80% and 1.46%，respectively，and the thickness of backfat and skin in experimental group were decreased by 1.11% and 4.16%，respectively，but there were no significant differences between 2 groups （P＞0.05）.The suet rate in experimental group was significantly decreased than those in control group （P＜0.05），kidney weight ratio and pancreatic weight ratio were increased significantly （P＜0.05），and other indexes were no significant differences between 2 groups （P＞0.05）.Compared with the control group，the water holding capacity in experimental group had an increasing trend (P＞0.05)，tenderness in experimental group was significantly reduced (P＜0.05) and the meat color was also improved.It was indicated that adding 0.1% Chinese herbal medicine in diets could promote growth performance and improve carcass traits and meat quality of finishing pigs.

Key words: Chinese herbal medicine；finishing pigs；growth performance; carcass traits；meat quality