Chuanbei loquat ointment has become popular in the United States. How should traditional Chinese medicine go global?

>Chuanbei loquat ointment has become popular in the United States. How should traditional Chinese medicine go global? Feng Xixi, special Beijing correspondent of Yangcheng Evening News. Recently, Chuanbei loquat ointment has become popular in the United States, attracting attention...

Feng Xixi, special Beijing reporter of Yangcheng Evening News

Recently, Chuanbei loquat ointment has become popular in the United States, attracting attention. On March 3, at the "Ministerial Channel" of the National Two Sessions, Wang Guoqiang, director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that "going global" of traditional Chinese medicine is not just about cough syrup. Traditional Chinese medicine has spread to 183 countries and regions around the world.

How to let more Chinese medicine “go out”? Many members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference have also paid attention to this topic. Huang Luqi, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that for traditional Chinese medicine to "go global", standards for use need to be formulated to convince the international community of the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine. Lu Chuanjian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, believes that modern advanced technological means need to be used to present and disseminate the results of traditional Chinese medicine research.

Scientific research must strengthen international cooperation

Lu Chuanjian said that there are two levels of problems for traditional Chinese medicine going global, so he put forward two suggestions.

First of all, it is to go international from the scientific research level, and it is recommended to use modern technology to present the research results of traditional Chinese medicine. She said that traditional Chinese medicine originated in my country and has a long history. This ancient discipline has continued to develop in the long history and has been further promoted in modern society. Now it has become a historical necessity to go international. Its profound theoretical connotation, treatment principles and its role in human health protection and a series of scientific It is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of experts and scholars who are interested in traditional Chinese medicine both inside and outside the industry and at home and abroad to jointly study it. It is necessary to use and introduce modern technological means and explain it in modern language so that modern people can accept and understand it, so that the presented research results can be widely recognized and go international.

Lu Chuanjian put forward his own suggestions on how to accelerate the transition of traditional Chinese medicine from scientific research to international level. She proposed that we should first focus on "me" and strengthen international cooperation. "There are many advanced technologies in the world, and there are many scientific research institutions and teams at the forefront of science. They are interested in traditional Chinese medicine. We can unite them to carry out traditional Chinese medicine research, but the subject must be us. The introduction of technology is for our use. The goal is to use modern technological means to reveal traditional Chinese medicine. The scientific connotation of medicine. "

Technical standards must have a say

Secondly, from the level of medical services to the international level, it is recommended to formulate technical standards and specifications for traditional Chinese medicine and have a say in traditional Chinese medicine. She pointed out that my country’s traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of going global. Currently, traditional Chinese medicine has spread to 183 countries and regions. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, 103 member states currently recognize the use of acupuncture, 29 of which have established laws and regulations on traditional medicine, and 18 have included acupuncture in their medical insurance systems. my country has signed 86 traditional Chinese medicine cooperation agreements with relevant countries and international organizations. Since the country implemented the "Belt and Road" construction, as of the end of 2016, 16 overseas centers of traditional Chinese medicine have been established in countries along the "Belt and Road".

She suggested that my country’s traditional Chinese medicine can establish its leading position in the world by applying for intangible cultural heritage protection and other intellectual property protection methods. On the other hand, she pointed out that technical standards and specifications for traditional Chinese medicine should be formulated, including guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of common diseases and common technical operating specifications. According to her, the World Health Organization has reached a cooperation intention with the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Guangdong International Traditional Medicine Clinical Guidelines Research Institute, built by the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, will play a demonstration role in the formulation of clinical guidelines for traditional medicine. "Develop technical standards and specifications so that more people can learn and apply them. There are rules to follow in the diagnosis and treatment process, and problems can be easily traced. This is the safety guarantee for traditional Chinese medicine to go global." On the other hand, standards and specifications at the service and management levels are also very important. Access standards and supervision standards for traditional Chinese medicine institutions and practitioners should be established to standardize traditional Chinese medicine medical practices and ensure medical quality.

>Medical institutions must standardize management

Lu Chuanjian also suggested that with the help of the "One Belt and One Road" construction, he hopes to promote the countries along the route to strengthen the standardized management of traditional Chinese medicine and gradually move towards legislation on traditional Chinese medicine. She pointed out that the current phenomenon of uneven quality of TCM medical institutions, practitioners and services around the world is very common. "Whenever problems arise, TCM medicine is blamed. If management can be standardized and a long-term mechanism can be established, we can regularly organize experts to give lectures, so that TCM practitioners around the world can get education and training opportunities, standardize international TCM medical practices, and promote TCM to better serve human health."

With the help of the "Belt and Road" and the Greater Bay Area Promote the "going out" of traditional Chinese medicine

Guangdong's approach:

Promote the "going out" of traditional Chinese medicine. Guangdong has been taking action. A reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News learned from the Guangdong Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine that the "Guangdong Provincial Action Plan to Promote the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine "Belt and Road" (referred to as the "Plan") has been issued. By 2020, Guangdong will establish 2-3 international cooperation platforms for traditional Chinese medicine, 4-6 overseas traditional Chinese medicine centers, 2-4 international exchange and cooperation bases for traditional Chinese medicine, and 1-3 international publishing and communication bases for traditional Chinese medicine. Register a batch of traditional Chinese medicine products overseas, build 2 regional TCM medical centers with international standards, 3-5 national TCM health tourism demonstration zones, and a number of national demonstration bases and demonstration projects.

In recent years, Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine’s participation in the “Belt and Road” construction and the cooperation and exchange of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have also continued to advance. Projects such as Chinese Date Togo, Chinese Date Malawi Compound Artemisinin to Eliminate Malaria, Chinese Date Cambodian Special Medicinal Plant Research and Development, and the Chinese Hospital of Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States have made breakthrough progress. The role of the Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Industrial Park platform continues to increase. The province’s traditional Chinese medicine institutions have established long-term cooperative relationships with relevant institutions in more than 30 countries. In 2016, the province’s export volume of “Chinese medicinal materials and proprietary Chinese medicines” reached US$169.81 million, a year-on-year increase of 8.41%.

This plan also makes it clear that a long-term mechanism will be established to provide guidance and convenience for enterprises and individuals from Hong Kong and Macao to set up wholly-owned, joint venture, or cooperative clinics in Guangdong. At the same time, it will fully integrate the diagnosis and treatment needs of common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases, chronic diseases and major and difficult diseases in countries along the "One Belt and One Road", and improve the overseas research and development and service capabilities of traditional Chinese medicine through resource integration; it will also make full use of Guangdong's high-quality traditional Chinese medicine education resources, cooperate with well-known universities along the route to run schools, gradually integrate the discipline construction of traditional Chinese medicine into the higher education system of the countries along the route, build a special college for international cooperative education of traditional Chinese medicine, and expand the scale of academic education and continuing education of traditional Chinese medicine in countries along the route.

Guangdong enterprises have also been working hard to allow traditional Chinese medicine to "go global". In 2014, Guangdong New South Group implemented the "Compound Artemisinin Rapid Malaria Elimination Project" and used original compound artemisinin drugs to successfully save the lives of millions of African people, win the trust of the African people, and become China's "business card" in aiding Africa.