The legislation of traditional Chinese medicine has entered the fast lane and been listed in the first file of the legislation

Chen Zhu, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the Chinese Medical Association, revealed at the first Qihuang forum hosted by the Chinese society of traditional Chinese medicine that the draft law on traditional Chinese medicine had been submitted to the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council at the end of 2011 and included in the first legislative plan of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 2013 Chen Zhu said that at present, more and more countries have implemented legislative management on traditional medicine and enacted laws and regulations on traditional medicine As a big country of traditional medicine and the birthplace of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine still lacks legal protection at the national level Chen Zhu pointed out that the development of health and family planning must adhere to the principle of both Chinese and Western medicine We must unswervingly adhere to the equal position of Chinese and Western medicine in ideological understanding, legal status, academic development and practical application, constantly innovate system and mechanism, improve policy and measures, increase capital investment, enhance development capacity, and promote the coordinated development of Chinese and Western medicine Chinese medicine should speed up the pace of inheritance and innovation, accelerate academic progress and improve efficacy Chen Zhu requested that we should take clinical practice as the core, correctly understand and deal with the relationship between inheritance and innovation around the bottleneck problem of academic development of traditional Chinese medicine, and make full use of the new theory, new technology of modern science and the idea and method of interdisciplinary infiltration, especially the application of multi-center randomized controlled research method under the premise of always following the original thinking of traditional Chinese medicine To establish a number of transformation medical centers converging Chinese and Western medicine to accelerate the innovation of TCM theory and technology; to make full use of the advantages of basic medical reform, strengthen the grass-roots level and the opportunity of reform of health and family planning departments, to carry out large-scale prospective cohort research, so as to accumulate necessary scientific data; to give full play to the characteristics of TCM in life outlook, health outlook, medical model, etc Color advantages, constantly expand the areas of advantages in common diseases, frequently occurring diseases, chronic diseases and difficult diseases, as well as prevention and health care, and improve the ability of disease prevention and treatment and health care of traditional Chinese medicine.