The law of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which is still on the road, is still on the road

Source: papernews.com (Shanghai)

On July 1, China's first traditional Chinese medicine law came into force. At this point, TCM has gained the same status as western medicine at the legal level.

"This law has made it clear for the first time that the development of traditional Chinese medicine should follow the development rules of TCM and the characteristics of TCM," said tian kan, dean of the school of health and economic management at nanjing university of traditional Chinese medicine. The team, led by prof tankan, had undertaken a lot of basic research for the law's legislation.

According to tian kan, the legislative process of the law was not smooth, and it took 33 years to enact it. In fact, at the beginning of the legislation, the question of how to "name" -- the TCM law? Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine law? Traditional medicine?

Some people think that at that time, the concept of "Chinese medicine" is relatively narrow, shall adopt the "traditional medicine method" or "traditional Chinese medicine and the folk medicines of law", and the law takes the concept of "Chinese medicine", and further clarify the "Chinese medicine" covers all nationalities in our country medicine.

Several experts questioned the surging news said, "the method of traditional Chinese medicine" landmark, but traditional Chinese medicine "of the name" the road is still long, still need to follow-up related system is developed. However, the sense of smell of capital, has already seen this market, quietly laid out the traditional Chinese medicine industry.

The law of traditional Chinese medicine which follows the law of development of TCM

Although traditional Chinese medicine is regarded as the treasure of the Chinese nation, China's legal construction in the field of traditional Chinese medicine is relatively backward, especially lacking a special law that embodies the characteristics and laws of traditional Chinese medicine. By contrast, western medicine and western medicine have made great strides in China in recent decades. Hu xiaoxiang, vice President of the jiangsu provincial health law society, described the urgency of "the survival and development crisis of traditional Chinese medicine".

Since 1983, when dong jianhua, a member of the National People's Congress and an academician of the Chinese academy of engineering, first proposed the development of traditional Chinese medicine, the law has been studied, demonstrated, drafted and amended numerous times. Finally, formed by the state bureau of traditional Chinese medicine the method of traditional Chinese medicine (draft version) "successively by the state development planning commission, the state council after review, on December 25, 2016, the standing committee of the National People's Congress examined and approved, and is due to come into force as of July 1, 2017 formally.

The traditional Chinese medicine law further clarifies that TCM and western medicine have equal status. At the same time, it also made clear for the first time that "the development of traditional Chinese medicine should follow the rule of TCM development and the characteristics of TCM".

Nanjing university of traditional Chinese medicine (nanjing university of traditional Chinese medicine) has undertaken a lot of basic research in the legislative process of the traditional Chinese medicine law, said tian kan of nanjing university of Chinese medicine. Tian kan is the head of the policy research team.

Taking the cultivation of talents as an example, Chinese traditional Chinese medicine is focused on dialectical synthesis and is aimed at "this person" rather than "some kind of disease". Therefore, it is very important to accumulate and pass on the experience of "zhichangda". In the past, traditional Chinese medicine cultivation was mainly taught by teachers, and now TCM doctors are mostly from specialized institutions. "The relatively single talent cultivation approach has brought about the problem of the current talent of Chinese medicine, which deserves our reflection on the university of traditional Chinese medicine." "Mr Tian admits.

The traditional Chinese medicine law should follow the rules of the growth of Chinese medicine talents. It should fully integrate with the university and the university, and continue education after graduation.

At the same time, the traditional Chinese medicine "ace" the people, for some medical skill is expertise but not through the theoretical examination of doctors' qualifications personnel, realized the "examination and approval system" for the "records", which can be skills through practice and effect assessment qualified to practice medicine. Further, for some do have expertise, hope Chinese medicine practitioners of personal practice, the method of traditional Chinese medicine will be "doctor" sit there listening, asking and clinic of traditional Chinese medicine from the current "license management" to put on record management, greatly reduces the opening of the threshold of the clinic of TCM.

In addition, traditional Chinese medicine is a "plus or minus sign", and the TCM law also allows medical institutions to produce or reprocess traditional Chinese medicine tablets on the market.

The policy supporting system still needs to be landed, capital has been first

People in the Chinese medicine industry believe that the Chinese medicine law, which is made up of 7004 words, has been implemented and has a landmark significance. However, this does not mean that traditional Chinese medicine has a direct driving force.

Some experts say that the path of traditional Chinese medicine is still long, and the implementation of the relevant provisions of the Chinese medicine law requires the introduction of a supporting system and the coordination of relevant departments.

At the moment, for example, the common law enforcement practice "in traditional Chinese medicine clinic beyond providing medical service", how local authorities in the future instead of TCM clinic the filing management to regulate, "the record" need to be further clear.

For example, medical institutions' "processing" Chinese medicine is permitted by the Chinese medicine law, but according to the provisions of the drug administration law, the medical establishment can't produce Chinese herbal medicine. In practice, how to enforce specific law enforcement of local drug supervision departments, it also requires the relevant departments to coordinate and solve them.

In addition, the entry of TCM, the catalogue of the classics, and the clinical and standardization of their preparations are also needed.

Although "boots are not yet fully on the ground", capital has been in the air.

In the act of traditional Chinese medicine through the review after half a year, according to incomplete statistics, in the industry of traditional Chinese medicine about 50 cases, mergers and acquisitions investment has more than 2016 almost annual number of traditional Chinese medicine industry mergers and acquisitions. From the traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, to the Chinese medicine clinic, Chinese medicine clinic, industrial capital has been looking at the entire industrial chain of TCM health services.

So far this year, nearly 50 listed companies, including tongji tang, kunming pharmaceutical group, lu yan medicine and hongri pharmaceutical, have sold or completed the acquisition of traditional Chinese medicine assets, the Shanghai securities news reported. At the same time, the services of traditional Chinese medicine is becoming a new industry capital "hunting ground", the former national drug firms alone "blindly" change to "hang kang medical", a strong into the medical services, has successively acquired more specialized assets, tumor hospital.

"The traditional Chinese medicine law supports the investment of social forces in traditional Chinese medicine, and the medical structure and standard of TCM health care institutions." "It can be seen that social capital has a policy opportunity, and the degree of marketization of traditional Chinese medicine will be greatly improved," zhang natural, a senior TCM expert, told thepaper.cn.