Insist on both Chinese and Western Medicine

In August 20th, when President Xi Jinping met with WHO director general Chen Fengfuzhen, the speech on the development of Chinese medicine fully inspired the Chinese medicine practitioners The basic policy of "promoting the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine" and "attaching equal importance to traditional Chinese and Western medicine" in the development of health and family planning has increased the weight Since the founding of new China, the party and the government have always attached great importance to and supported the work of traditional Chinese medicine In the early 1950s, Mao Zedong called for "learning from the west" and advocated the integration of Chinese and Western medicine From the 1982 constitution, which clearly defined "developing modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine", to the 1985 decision on health work by the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, which pointed out that "TCM and Western medicine are equally important", 1997 Central Committee of the CPC The decision of the State Council on health reform and development clearly regards "equal emphasis on both traditional Chinese and Western medicine" as one of the health work policies in the new era of China, and then in 2009 the State Council's several opinions on supporting and promoting the development of traditional Chinese medicine, all of which have made clear the determination of the party and the government to adhere to the equal emphasis on both traditional and Western medicine Looking back on the history, as a basic principle of health work in China, "equal emphasis on both Chinese and Western medicine" has always guided Chinese medicine and Western medicine to enjoy the right of equal development, guaranteed the healthy development of Chinese medicine, promoted the complementary and coordinated development of Chinese and Western medicine, safeguarded the health rights and interests of the masses, promoted the leap of Chinese medicine, and became an important feature and manifestation of Chinese medicine and health work Advantages For example, in this year's h7n9 avian influenza epidemic prevention and control, Chinese and Western medicine experts jointly issued prevention and control programs, and Chinese medicine participated in reducing patient mortality, which made a vivid annotation for the policy of "attaching equal importance to both Chinese and Western medicine", and won the "high praise of the international community" as Margaret Chan said It is a basic guiding ideology of current medical reform to insist on the equal emphasis on both Chinese and Western medicine In the process of deepening medical reform, this sentence has been reiterated and insisted in the documents issued by the state for many times As China's unique medical and health resources, Chinese medicine is rooted in the unique national conditions and rooted in the masses It has made a unique contribution to Xi Jinping's "Chinese style solution to explore the worldwide challenges of medical reform" and played an irreplaceable role Only when we firmly adhere to the principle of "attaching equal importance to both traditional and Western medicine", can we effectively integrate traditional and Western medicine Xi Jinping proposed "promoting integration of Chinese and Western medicine" At present, with the support of the state and the needs of the people, the cause of traditional Chinese medicine is growing rapidly It can be called "time, place, people and harmony" Under the guidance of the policy of "attaching equal importance to both Chinese and Western medicine", every traditional Chinese medicine person should be independent, self-confident and self-improvement, inherit and carry forward the precious heritage left by his ancestors, and make contributions to the maintenance of national health and the benefit of mankind.