"Along the way" - new opportunities for the development of Chinese medicine

Time: 2017-06-24

China Industrial Economic Information Network

      "Chinese medicine trade refers to the traditional Chinese medicine-based international trade, is between different countries and Chinese medicine services related to the sale and trading activities." State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine International Cooperation Department official said, Chinese medicine Classification of trade in services According to the WTO classification method, divided into overseas consumption, cross-border delivery, commercial presence and natural person movement four modes. "

      Up to now, Chinese medicine has spread to the world's 183 countries and regions, these countries and regions of various types of Chinese medicine practitioners about 30 million people, Chinese medicine and medical institutions with acupuncture more than 80,000, the world's Chinese medicine services The market is valued at about $ 50 billion a year. At present, China has signed 86 cooperation agreements with international organizations, foreign governments and regions. Chinese medicine has also adopted national legislation in Australia, Canada, Austria, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, UAE, South Africa and other countries and regions. Has been recognized. At present, the vast majority of Chinese and foreign trade agreements that have been signed in China include Chinese medicine content, such as Australia's annual quota for 1,800 Chinese medicine practitioners, martial arts teachers and Chinese teachers.

According to incomplete statistics, from 2011 to 2014, Russia, France, Malaysia, Italy, Australia and more than 30 countries through the heads of state meeting and other channels, proposed cooperation with China in overseas Chinese medicine center, to carry out Chinese medicine cooperation.

      At the same time, Chinese medicine has been incorporated into the national "zone all  the way" strategy. The co-release of the "Promoting the Silk Road Economic Zone and the Vision and Action of the Maritime Silk Road in the 21st Century" in March 2015 also expanded the cooperation between "countries along the way" and traditional Chinese medicine.

The person in charge of the "one by one" traditional medicine development exchange and cooperation conference and the first non-drug therapy seminar, said, "one way all the way" the main task is to achieve the "five links." The first is the policy communication, improve the intergovernmental cooperation and cooperation mechanism, the government's bilateral and China - Central and Eastern Europe, China - ASEAN and other multilateral cooperation mechanism for the Chinese medicine "going out" to create a good environment. The second is the exchange of resources, mainly refers to the Chinese medicine services. As China has a unique advantage of the service resources, along with the country to share Chinese medicine services, in response to international needs. The third is the people close to strengthen the cultural exchanges along the line along the country, mainly refers to the development of Chinese medicine diplomacy, speak Chinese stories, to carry out cultural transmission. The fourth is science and technology, to promote the innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, and along the country to strengthen high-level scientific research cooperation, joint experiments Fifth is the smooth trade, the development of Chinese medicine health services, including traditional Chinese medicine tourism and other new formats.

Chinese medicine "with the way" development plan goal is to 2020 Chinese medicine "area along the way" all-round pattern formation, policy support system and international coordination mechanism gradually improved, cooperation to achieve a wider range, higher level, deeper level of open , Big exchange, big fusion. In this regard, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine put forward four specific goals: First, the construction of 30 overseas Chinese medicine center, has been built 17; Second, the promulgation of 20 international standards for Chinese medicine, ISO International Organization for Standardization Has set up a Chinese medicine standards committee, the current introduction of more than 10 Chinese-led international standards; third is registered 100 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine products; four is the construction of 50 Chinese medicine foreign exchange and cooperation demonstration base, has set up 11.