The People's Daily: traditional Chinese medicine, open to go out

Time: 2016-03-02

Source: People's Daily

Author: jun-ping wang

1 ask to go out of traditional Chinese medicine, how far?

Reporter: at present, Chinese medicine has spread to 183 countries and regions. The transmission range is calculated?

Guo-qiang wang: since the ancient times Chinese medicine is the important content of the exchanges and cooperation of countries along the silk road. Go out and have a long history of traditional Chinese medicine, have a larger coverage: from the official level, including with the world health organization, the international organization for standardization, the association of south-east Asian nations (asean), the European Union and other multilateral organizations exchanges and cooperation.

According to who statistics, by 2012, a traditional medical policies of the member states have 69, has a regulatory herbs of the member states in 119; 103 member states approved use of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy. From the government level, our country has with 86 countries and regions, the government signed the special Chinese medicine cooperation agreement.

Chinese medicine spread to the number of countries and regions, is a research institution export situation one by one through the customs statistics. Statistics show that in 2014 China's traditional Chinese medicine products imports and exports of $4.63 billion, up 9.79% from a year earlier.

Reporter: how is \"go abroad\"? How to make traditional Chinese medicine overseas singaporeans?

Guo-qiang wang: TCM multi-angle, all-round to go out and concrete form includes: cooperation medical (in foreign hospitals, clinics), cooperation in running schools provide academic education or training of traditional Chinese medicine (outer), joint research, mergers, factory or pharmacy, etc. In addition, there are service staff personal to go abroad to provide services of traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine and herbal medicine trade, etc.

The typical cases of enterprises and institutions to go out more. In 2015, the administration of traditional Chinese medicine through the international cooperation project work, in the form of \"government support, organization operation\", key support for gansu health and family planning commission, Chinese academy of sciences and a number of institutions in the gate of hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, respectively, in kyrgyzstan, the United States, France and other countries and regions set up 10 center of traditional Chinese medicine. The center has been in the site construction, traditional Chinese medicine doctors selected, local drug registration, cultural propaganda has made gratifying progress, part of the center has started running, and attracted a large number of local patients.

2 how to overcome the water?

Reporter: in the overseas, TCM will meet what barriers? How to break?

Guo-qiang wang: due to differences in cultural background and the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine go out and face culture, policy and technical barriers to entry. China's the old saying: \"the gentleman and different.\" Firstly, we should face up to and respect the difference. At the same time, we should actively eliminate obstacles and barriers, improve the environment for development of Chinese medicine, improve its international influence and recognition level, make the traditional Chinese medicine to benefit the local people better, creating healthy development and destiny of the interests of the community. Worldwide, the current is western medicine as the leading, supplement is the basic status of TCM.

In the government under the framework of cooperation, actively support and various and of all kinds of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional medicine industry organizations and academic institutions to carry out the rich and colorful activities. The annual world academic conference, the world of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture academic conference, has become the international field of traditional Chinese medicine influential event. Let folk to go out, to facilitate the cooperation between official with folk, break the barriers of effect of traditional Chinese medicine go through the official cooperation, it can make the medicine go further and better.

Reporter: go out and how to adapt to the local relevant laws and regulations of traditional Chinese medicine?

Guo-qiang wang: promote to the world of traditional Chinese medicine, to consolidate and expand the intergovernmental cooperation mechanism. Through the official multilateral cooperation, improve the regulatory environment of traditional Chinese medicine, promote it into the mainstream of medical system. In the multilateral level, by strengthening and the world health organization, the international organization for standardization, the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization and other multilateral organizations, steadily rising international status of traditional Chinese medicine. The sixty-second world health assembly adopted the traditional medical resolution, in traditional Chinese medicine as the main body of traditional medicine into the international classification of diseases (ICD - 11); Acupuncture has been successfully listed in the \"human non-material cultural heritage representative work list\", \"compendium of materia medica\" in huangdi's success on the world list of memory.

In the field of international standardization, the international organization for standardization technical committee (ISO/TC249) of traditional Chinese medicine, officially released eight international standards of traditional Chinese medicine. In the bilateral level, traditional Chinese medicine is involved in our country and 13 countries and regions of free trade talks, through the signing of the fta, expanding market access, and cut the technical barriers.

Go out of traditional Chinese medicine, to be justified, and reasonably. Now 54 countries around the world have made the traditional medical legislation, some developed countries, such as Australia, Canada, admitted through legislation legal status and standardize the management of traditional Chinese medicine. Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine products through legal access to obtain legal status. TCM doctor in Australia and other countries have also been obtained from registration approval.

So far, more than 10 kinds of Chinese medicine products in China to the United States to submit an application to the FDA, are now in a stage Ⅱ or Ⅲ clinical trials. Two Chinese medicine varieties complete registered approed in the European Union. Tasly compound danshen dropping pill in 26 countries approved as a drug. Tongrentang are more than 70 countries and regions worldwide registered trademark, the export of Chinese medicine has reached 680 kinds of specifications.

3 q how to cope with international competition?

Reporter: in recent years, the Korean medicine, India medical skill and so on also in go out, some countries even export herbs. How to highlight advantages in the competition of traditional Chinese medicine?

Guo-qiang wang: traditional medicine is not unique to China, a lot of countries have their own traditional medicine. Around the world traditional medicine under the condition of increasing demand, many countries are promoting the country's traditional medicine, and add to the production and export of Chinese medicinal materials. Parts of traditional medicine from traditional Chinese medicine. We respect tolerance of traditional medicine in other countries, no matter whether it is originated from traditional Chinese medicine.

We do not advocate dominance, traditional medicine is an important part of the world medical system, TCM should be together with the other traditional medicine play a positive role to the health of the people around the world. But also want to see, compared with those of other medicine of traditional Chinese medicine has a long history, complete system, clear curative effect, widely spreading, etc, this is our advantage.

Reporter: how to treat and deal with other countries of the traditional Chinese medicine \"reference\"?

Guo-qiang wang: the development of Chinese medicine in other countries to form a reversed transmission situation in our country, supervise and urge our efforts to improve yourself. Many countries with traditional medicine in the field of international marketing, management, funding and research with a strong advantage, a lot of experience is worth our using for reference and learning, it is the international development of the domestic industry of traditional Chinese medicine put forward higher requirements. Enterprises with international development plan, to fully study international advanced experience, enhance the quality of products and international market development ability, increasing the financial input in international development, strengthen personnel training, better adapt to international competition.

From the government point of view, to go through the government multilateral cooperation, promote the international voice and influence of traditional Chinese medicine, TCM system of entering the international mainstream medicine, TCM play a leading role in the world of traditional medicine.