China News Service, Beijing, March 1 (Wei Xianghui) A few days ago, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the implementation plan of major projects for the revitalization and development of traditional Chinese medicine. It coordinated the deployment of 8 key projects and arranged 26 construction projects. It was proposed that by 2025, China The level of medical disease prevention and treatment has been significantly improved.

Relevant experts said that the release of the implementation plan will also help to get rid of the disadvantages of "supporting medicine with medicine" and standardize the development of the industry.

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8 key projects and 26 construction projects

  The "Plan" coordinated the deployment of 8 key projects, including the high-quality development of Chinese medicine health services, the coordinated promotion of Chinese and Western medicine, the inheritance, innovation and modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, the training of talents with Chinese medicine characteristics (Qihuang Project), the improvement of the quality of Chinese medicine and 26 construction projects have been arranged for the industrial promotion project, the promotion project of traditional Chinese medicine culture, the open development project of traditional Chinese medicine, and the pilot project of national comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese medicine.

  The construction tasks include, in the overall layout of the national medical center and national regional medical center construction projects, relying on existing resources, select and build a number of national traditional Chinese medicine medical centers; build a number of national traditional Chinese medicine specialty specialties, strengthen equipment allocation, optimize and improve traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment programs , to enhance the clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine.

  Focusing on prefecture-level TCM hospitals, build about 130 TCM-specific key hospitals with outstanding TCM characteristics, remarkable clinical curative effect, and obvious demonstration and leading role.

Arrange about 35 national TCM epidemic prevention and control bases, and carry out capacity building for the prevention and control of infectious diseases in TCM hospitals.

  Strengthen the construction of "two specialties and one center" in county-level traditional Chinese medicine hospitals. Each county-level traditional Chinese medicine hospital will build two specialties with special advantages in traditional Chinese medicine and one county-level traditional Chinese medicine appropriate technology promotion center.

Strengthen the construction of TCM clinics in grassroots medical and health institutions, realize the establishment of TCM clinics in all community health service centers and township health centers, equip TCM physicians, and improve the service capabilities of TCM clinics.

Professional Market of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Bozhou, China.

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Expert: Conducive to getting rid of the disadvantages of "supporting medicine with medicine" and standardizing industrial development

  Deng Yong, director of the Qihuang Law and Business Research Center of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a professor of medical and health law, believes that the research and development of traditional Chinese medicine has always involved multiple components, complicated pharmacological mechanisms, and insufficient clinical effectiveness evaluation.

This implementation plan is especially aimed at the development of the Chinese medicine industry, and has pointed out the way forward and direction for government departments at all levels, health and health commissions at all levels, Chinese medicine management departments, and the vast number of social capital parties, which has strong policy planning significance.

  The implementation plan clarifies the task of constructing the comprehensive evaluation system of Chinese patent medicines, establishes and improves the clinical comprehensive evaluation methods of Chinese patent medicines, and systematically carries out the clinical comprehensive evaluation of 100 kinds of Chinese patent medicines.

For 100 kinds of Chinese patent medicines, establish a standard system that is systematically perfect, adapts to the needs of development, and covers the entire production process, forming a multi-level modern quality control system.

Preliminarily establish a review evidence system that combines TCM theory, human experience and clinical trials, and build safety evaluation methods and standard systems that conform to the characteristics of TCM.

  The implementation plan proposes that, relying on national and provincial drug inspection institutions, build about 30 key laboratories of the State Food and Drug Administration for quality monitoring and evaluation of the Chinese medicine market, and about 30 key laboratories of the State Food and Drug Administration for safety monitoring and risk assessment of traditional Chinese medicines, and the overall improvement The quality evaluation ability of traditional Chinese medicine in drug testing institutions.

  "In the past, there were no scientific and standardized industry standards, which led to some subjective motives of 'supporting medicine with medicine' and profiting through drug addition." Deng Yong said in an interview with Chinanews.com that as the policy continues to be implemented, it can It is foreseen that in the future, the related shortcomings of the Chinese medicine industry will be improved rapidly, and the team of Chinese medicine professionals is also expected to grow.

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