Academician Zhang Boli: Theory comes first, evidence-based is king, and promotes the development of traditional Chinese medicine. The 20th International Congress of Collateral Medicine was held in Shijiazhuang City.

More than 100,000 experts and scholars from home and abroad gathered at the conference in a combination of online and offline methods. Academician Wu Yiling's team drew on new methods of modern medical scientific research to carry out a series of evidence- based studies and achieved results. Tongluo drugs have achieved outstanding results in intervening in the cardiovascular event chain.