A picture to understand Premier Li Keqiang's deployment of promoting innovation and upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry

Source: at the executive meeting of the State Council on February 14, 2016, Premier Li Keqiang explained the importance of "open development of TCM industry" with the example of Tu youyou who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine "Tu youyou's discovery of artemisinin is to draw inspiration from traditional Chinese medicine books, extract it from traditional Chinese medicine, and finally it has been widely used in the treatment of traditional Chinese and Western medicine." "While maintaining the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, we should further promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine with an open mind," the premier said Instead of "generalizing" the concept of traditional Chinese medicine indefinitely, we should focus on some key issues and push forward a topic of the same day's meeting, which is to determine measures to further promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine and give full play to the advantages of traditional medicine for the benefit of the people Li Keqiang said that in recent years, the industry of traditional Chinese medicine has continued to grow rapidly, and we should continue to introduce some hard measures to "hit the point" "Few Chinese doctors nowadays don't understand western medicine They often ask 'what's the blood pressure' when they've finished their pulse This has expanded the traditional concept of traditional Chinese medicine As for patients, there are few who only look at traditional Chinese medicine, or only take traditional Chinese medicine Most of them look at the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine " "In this case, we need to further explore and promote the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, attach equal importance to traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and further promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine with an open mind," he said Li Keqiang pointed out that inheriting the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine and playing its unique role can better benefit human health "But in this process, we should not generalize the concept of traditional Chinese medicine indefinitely, but focus on some key issues and strive to achieve breakthroughs in some areas." The prime minister said Determined to improve the quality of drugs, especially essential drugs, "I recently saw some news reports that our citizens travel abroad, go to other countries to buy cold drugs, even band aids." "We need to be determined to improve the quality of drugs, especially essential drugs," Li said Another topic of the meeting was to promote the innovation and upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry The meeting determined to improve the safety evaluation and product traceability system, strengthen the quality supervision of the whole process, benchmark the international advanced level, and implement actions to improve the standards of drugs and medical devices, especially to improve the quality of essential drugs Li Keqiang stressed that the development of the pharmaceutical industry is first of all "the needs of the people's livelihood", but also "the needs of development" We should combine accelerating the healthy development of the pharmaceutical industry with deepening the reform of the medical and health system to better serve the people's livelihood and stabilize growth According to reports, in some western developed countries, the proportion of the pharmaceutical industry in GDP has reached 8%, and in some countries, the proportion is higher In China, the proportion is only 5% In this regard, the premier pointed out: "promoting innovation and upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry can not only benefit people's livelihood, but also be an important measure to stabilize growth It contains great potential to promote economic upgrading and structural optimization "