The Chinese medicine expert group of central assistance to Hong Kong met with the Hong Kong Hospital Authority on the 31st and continued its investigation in Hong Kong. In the forenoon, the expert group visited the hospital authority of Hongkong to meet and exchange with the chairman of the hospital authority, Fan Hongling, chief executive officer, and the relevant ha staff to understand the latest progress of COVID-19's public medical institutions in fighting COVID-19, including the work of various Chinese medicine in the fight against epidemic diseases. The two sides also shared strategies and experience in responding to the epidemic with traditional Chinese medicine. Fan Hongling said that the mainland expert group of traditional Chinese medicine has provided many valuable opinions on the application of traditional Chinese medicine to provide treatment for Xinguan patients. We will refer to the experience of the mainland and effectively achieve the anti epidemic goal of reducing death, weight loss and infection through integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Accompanied by representatives of the hospital authority, the expert group then visited the Chinese medicine consultation hotline center and exchanged information with the Chinese medicine practitioners on duty on the operation of the center and public inquiries. In the afternoon, the expert group went to Kowloon City to visit the Chinese medicine clinic and teaching and Research Center coordinated by Pok Oi Hospital, HA and Hong Kong Baptist University, and listened to the introduction of the clinic's participation in the "Chinese medicine outpatient special diagnosis and treatment service" and "Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment service in elderly homes". Novel coronavirus pneumonia patients were also visited by the expert group. The actual situation of the treatment of patients with new crown pneumonia in Hongkong and the rehabilitation progress of patients were also discussed. The Chinese medicine expert group of central assistance to Hong Kong has a total of 7 people, led by Tong Xiaolin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At the invitation of the Hong Kong SAR government, they arrived in Hong Kong on the morning of the 29th for an inspection. (Xinhua News Agency)