Use Chinese medicine to create "healthy silk way"

Source: People's Daily (Beijing)

      (Original title: with Chinese medicine to create "healthy Silk Road")

      2017 During the Beijing International Trade Fair, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine held an "International Symposium on Traditional Chinese Medicine Service Trade", which provided wisdom for the development of Chinese medicine trade in services and made great efforts to make Chinese medicine better serve "all the way" Countries and other countries and regions.

      Chinese medicine development usher in silk path opportunities

      At the end of 2016, "Chinese medicine" along the way "development plan (2016 - 2020)" introduced to create a full range of Chinese medicine to open a new pattern of comprehensive deployment. Wu Zhende, deputy director of the International Cooperation Department of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has introduced Chinese medicine to 183 countries and regions. China has signed 86 cooperation agreements with foreign governments, regional authorities and international organizations.

      China has set up 17 overseas Chinese medicine centers in "participating all over the country" and has set up 12 Chinese-oriented Confucius Institutes in eight countries, including Britain, Hungary, the United States, Australia and Thailand. "These are all along with the development of Chinese medicine is entering a new era," Wu said.

      According to incomplete statistics, in 2016 288 Chinese medicine service agencies and enterprises received a total of 230,000 foreign patients, receiving 29,000 people in hospital, operating income of 1.4 billion yuan, according to the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Trade Service Division inspector Tang Jun introduction, ; Tong Ren Tang and so on more than 60 Chinese medicine service trade institutions in more than 30 countries and regions to open Chinese medicine hospitals, Chinese medicine clinics and Chinese health care institutions, the annual income of 280,000 local residents, annual operating income of 800 million US dollars.

      Go out to face three major challenges

      "Although the situation is gratifying, but the traditional Chinese medicine in the area along the way to participate in the development of the country still faces many difficulties and challenges." State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine International Cooperation Department Deputy Director Wei Chunyu said. These challenges are mainly concentrated in three aspects: First, the standard system of Chinese medicine has not yet been with the international standards, traditional medicine in most countries in the complementary and alternative status, the development environment is not optimistic; Second, "all the way" span, Areas in the level of economic development, medical needs, cultural beliefs and other aspects of different, how to adapt to local conditions, into the local people's lives are still facing a great test; Third, Chinese medicine to be self-confidence to be strengthened, urgent need to enhance their ability to practice internal strength.

      "Chinese medicine that the normal tongue should be pale pink, thin white fur, which is based on the yellow people as the standard, but the white tongue is pink.Chinese medicine needs to study one of the new topics is to establish a different race of normal Value reference system. "Canadian Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Wu Binjiang, for example. For example, because of cultural background and habits, the Chinese people know from time to time leaves, Cordyceps, ore can be used as medicine, but the Chinese medicine output to foreign countries, many foreigners to see such a traditional Chinese medicine, feeling difficult to accept and swallow. "Chinese medicine dosage form reform is also a solution to the internationalization of Chinese medicine in a direction, now free of fried Chinese medicine is a good attempt.

      "Chinese medicine to go out to face the biggest problem is the lack of standardization of construction," the Ministry of Culture Foreign Affairs Office of the translation director Jiang good book said. Chinese medicine and Western medicine clinical evaluation system is not the same, Western medicine emphasis on detail, to use numbers to speak, and Chinese medicine is precisely the "overall concept", the lack of sound and comprehensive statistical analysis system. This cultural difference between China and the West is an important factor restricting Chinese medicine to "go out". To this end, the state has been actively working to make Chinese medicine standards and international standards. In recent years, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) established the Chinese Medicine Technical Committee, and gradually enacted the promulgation of more than 10 international standards for Chinese medicine. Traditional medicine, represented by Chinese medicine, was first included in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases. "There is still a long way to go to establish international standards for proprietary Chinese medicines, but it is always the direction of an effort." Wu Binjiang said.

      2020 to form a new pattern of cooperation

      In accordance with the "Chinese medicine" area along the way "development plan (2016 - 2020)" requirements, by 2020, Chinese medicine "along the way" all-round cooperation will be basically formed a new pattern, will cooperate with the relevant countries to build 30 Chinese medicine overseas center , Promulgated 20 international standards of Chinese medicine, registered 100 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine products, construction of 50 Chinese medicine foreign exchange cooperation demonstration base.

      Wei Chunyu said that where the national strategy, Chinese medicine is going to where to go. In the internal and external co-ordination, will support the construction of a number of domestic exchange and cooperation base in foreign countries to build a number of Chinese medicine experience demonstration center to promote Chinese medicine institutions to go out, consolidate the "one way along the road" to promote the development of Chinese medicine overseas. In the cultural field, with the help of cultural embassies, overseas Chinese medicine center, Confucius Institute of Chinese medicine and other platforms, held Chinese medicine culture exhibition, volunteer activities and health lectures, make full use of overseas Chinese resources, play medicine and popular science propaganda, for overseas Chinese medicine to create Good atmosphere. In the financial and tax support, will give full play to the role of Silk Road Fund, the Chinese medicine "area along the way" to support the project. Including encouraging national policy banks to provide credit support for Chinese medicine export projects, encouraging social capital to set up Chinese medicine "one way" fund, to give qualified Chinese medicine enterprises and enterprises engaged in Chinese herbal medicine cultivation of certain taxes and fees.

      "This is a major positive for the industry, Chinese medicine will be in the way along the way blooming!" China Life Care Association, said Chen Zenghua, vice chairman.