State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Recognition and Influence of Traditional Chinese Medicine Continues to Increase
Yu Yanhong, a member of the party group of the National Health and Health Commission and director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said on the 12th that the recognition and influence of traditional Chinese medicine has continued to increase, and traditional Chinese medicine is gradually becoming a cultural consciousness of the masses to promote health.
On September 12, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of “promoting high-quality development”. At the meeting, a reporter asked: “14th Five-Year Plan” since, Chinese medicine is the development of high-quality results are mainly reflected in what areas?
According to Yu Yanhong, the assessment shows that of the 15 major development indicators in the 14th Five-Year Plan, three have been completed ahead of schedule and the remaining indicators are all in line with expectations, as reflected in the following:
The service capacity of Chinese medicine has been significantly enhanced. If we focus on “promoting excellence, strengthening weaknesses and making up for shortcomings”, building highlands and strengthening grassroots level, on the one hand, relying on high-level Chinese medicine hospitals to promote the construction of national medical centers of Chinese medicine, building 27 national regional medical centers for Chinese medicine projects, laying out 35 national bases for the prevention and treatment of Chinese medicine epidemics, and selecting 1,158 national Chinese medicine advantageous specialties, we have promoted the expansion and balanced layout of high-quality medical resources. Expansion and balanced layout of high-quality medical resources.
On the other hand, 130 prefectural and municipal Chinese medicine hospitals are supported to build key hospitals with Chinese medicine characteristics, and more than 1,000 county-level Chinese medicine hospitals are supported to build “two specialties and one center”, basically realizing the full coverage of Chinese medicine halls set up in community health service centers and township health centers, and, in general, basically completing the high-quality and efficient service system of traditional Chinese medicine. In 2023, there will be 93,000 medical institutions of Chinese medicine and the total number of consultations will reach 1.54 billion, which is 29.2% more than the number of institutions in 2022, and the total number of consultations will increase by 67.4%.
One to promote Chinese medicine education, science and technology talents to achieve new results in education, deepen the synergy between medical education, promote the establishment of China's joint graduate school of traditional Chinese medicine, the construction of 321 high-level key disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine, to promote the reform of education and teaching and high-quality development.
In terms of scientific and technological innovation, focusing on the efficacy of Chinese medicine, the construction of scientific and technological innovation platforms and institutional mechanisms has achieved new results, undertaking the national key research and development plan “modernization of traditional Chinese medicine” key special projects, the field of traditional Chinese medicine has built seven national key laboratories, two national clinical medical centers, and the layout of 46 national traditional Chinese medicine inheritance and innovation centers. The China Center for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine has become the first-level registration platform of the World Health Organization (WHO) for international clinical trials of traditional medicine, and has released a number of Chinese medicine treatments for diseases of superiority, appropriate technologies and unique varieties of Chinese medicines with unique therapeutic efficacy.
In the area of talent construction, the implementation of the project of training talents with Chinese medicine characteristics has constructed a high-level talent team with the gradation of leading talents, excellent talents and backbone talents; since the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, five new academicians have been added to the two academies in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, and 30 masters of the fourth session of the National Doctor of Chinese Medicine and 101 famous Chinese doctors of the country have been recognized; as of the end of last year, the number of licensed Chinese medicine practitioners (including assistant doctors) nationwide has reached 860,000 people. As of the end of last year, the number of TCM practitioners (including assistant doctors) has reached 868,000 nationwide.
The recognition and influence of Chinese medicine continues to grow. The “Chinese Medicine Conference” has appeared on CCTV, the night market of Chinese medicine culture has become very popular, and Chinese medicine and health care have become the cultural consciousness of the public in promoting health. Traditional Chinese medicine has become more proactive in serving the diplomacy of a great power with Chinese characteristics, 30 high-quality overseas centers of traditional Chinese medicine have been constructed, traditional Chinese medicine has been included in the list of achievements of the Central Asia Summit of China, and in the results of the bilateral visits of the top leaders of the two parties, China and Vietnam, and the Traditional Medicine Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has been held in successive years, and the Chinese medicine medical team in aid of the East has become a bond that connects the people's hearts, and the Chinese medicine background of the community of human health is constantly being brightened up.
