Leading Traditional Chinese Medicine "Going Global" with High Standards
2024-08-13
The various standards of traditional Chinese medicine have reached over 3000, and a framework suitable for the development of traditional Chinese medicine has been basically established to lead the "going global" of traditional Chinese medicine with high standards (Big Health Observation). Recently, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine held a press conference to introduce the "Action Plan for Standardization of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2024-2026)" and the progress of traditional Chinese medicine standardization work. The reporter learned from the press conference that China has over 3000 standards for various types of traditional Chinese medicine, and a standard system framework suitable for the development of traditional Chinese medicine in China has been basically established. Continuously optimize the structure of TCM standards. In terms of, The inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine have put forward new and higher requirements for the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine. It is urgent to adhere to problem orientation, strengthen top-level design and systematic planning. To this end, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently issued the "Action Plan for Standardization of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2024-2026)", proposing a series of innovative measures to promote the high-quality development of traditional Chinese medicine standardization - optimizing the overall layout of the traditional Chinese medicine standard system, strengthening the supply of traditional Chinese medicine standards in key areas, promoting the interactive development of traditional Chinese medicine standards and technological innovation, advancing the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine standards, deepening the reform and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine standardization, and consolidating the foundation for the development of traditional Chinese medicine standardization. Standards determine quality, and there are standards that determine quality. Only high standards lead to high quality. We need to pay more attention to the technical support role of high-quality standards in leading high-quality development, and use high standards to assist high-tech innovation, high-level opening up, and lead high-quality development, "said Academician Zhang Boli, a master of Chinese medicine and chairman of the National Standardization Technical Committee of Traditional Chinese Medicine." We have more than 3000 standards at all levels and types, including traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, and the basic structure has been achieved. The next step is to turn to improving the framework of the standard system, continuously optimizing the structure of traditional Chinese medicine standards, and improving the supply efficiency of high-quality standards. "Zhang Boli said that we need to increase efforts in the formulation and revision of traditional Chinese medicine standards. "Standards should also keep pace with the times, and some standards may have to be revised within a year or two." He said, "Especially now the Internet, big data, AI artificial intelligence and other technologies are developing very fast, we should learn from and use for our own purposes in the formulation of standards, and deeply integrate the formulation of standards of traditional Chinese medicine and digital technology." The significance of the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine and the implementation of the "three factor adaptation" approach is profound. Zhu Gui stated that promoting the standardized and high-quality development of traditional Chinese medicine is conducive to further improving the service capacity and level of traditional Chinese medicine, ensuring the quality of traditional Chinese medicine, and providing safe, effective, and convenient traditional Chinese medicine services for the people; Beneficial for the academic development of traditional Chinese medicine, leveraging the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, highlighting its characteristics, and overall improving the academic level of traditional Chinese medicine; Conducive to strengthening the standardized management of traditional Chinese medicine, improving the level of traditional Chinese medicine management, and enhancing management efficiency; It is conducive to promoting the exchange and cooperation of traditional Chinese medicine with foreign countries, and better assisting in the construction of a human health community. The purpose of standard formulation is application, and whether the standard is well formulated or not, whether it is scientific or not, needs to be tested in specific practice Zhu Gui said that the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine is gradually establishing and improving the mechanism for promoting and implementing traditional Chinese medicine standards, issuing implementation plans and definitions for traditional Chinese medicine standards, strengthening the promotion and evaluation of standards, and promoting the effective implementation of traditional Chinese medicine standards. For example, "Name and Location of Acupoints", "Location Map of Acupoints", "General Terminology of acupuncture and moxibustion", and "Technical Operation Specifications of acupuncture and moxibustion" are widely used in Chinese medicine textbooks and translated into Russian and other foreign languages; The first ISO standard of traditional Chinese medicine, disposable sterile acupuncture and moxibustion needles, has set a unified standard for the quality control of acupuncture and moxibustion needles worldwide, and has driven the "going global" of TCM products, technologies and services. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the principle of adapting to the time, place, and individual, which seems to contradict the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine. In this regard, Zhang Boli said: "The 'three factors for adaptation' is the academic feature of TCM itself, and also the experience of clinical treatment. It stresses the dialectical treatment and individualized diagnosis and treatment. But from a large number of clinical practices, we can summarize the common understanding, characteristics and norms." Zhang Boli said for example that there are many standardized records of TCM technology methods in ancient medical books such as Huangdi's Internal Classic, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, acupuncture and moxibustion A and B Classic, Compendium of Materia Medica. For example, tongue diagnosis, pulse diagnosis, and the seasons and periods of drug collection are all regular and based on the consensus of everyone's experience. Therefore, the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine has a foundation Zhang Boli said, "Of course, the consensus in ancient times was gradually formed based on clinical practice, and it is not completely consistent with the various standards established now in terms of methods. Our current establishment of standards and methods requires literature research, clinical investigation, expert discussion, and finally the development of a preliminary framework. Experts then seek consensus and evaluate it again, which is a very serious scientific research work. Even if the time is fast, it will take a year." According to statistics from the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, traditional Chinese medicine has spread to 196 countries and regions around the world; Traditional Chinese medicine has been included in 16 free trade agreements and 31 national export bases for traditional Chinese medicine services have been established; Acupuncture and moxibustion and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine have been included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Human Beings, and the Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine and Compendium of Materia Medica have been included in the "Memory of the World" list... In recent years, with the continuous improvement of internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine, significant progress has been made in the international standardization of traditional Chinese medicine, and strong support has been provided for the "going global" of traditional Chinese medicine. Our standards should promote the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine, and the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine relies on standards to guide it, "said Zhang Boli. In 2009, in response to the international demand and competition in the field of standardization of traditional Chinese medicine, with the full support and cooperation of the National Standardization Management Committee, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine proposed and facilitated the establishment of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Technical Committee by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), with China assuming the role of the secretariat. At present, the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee on Traditional Chinese Medicine (ISO/TC249) has 23 active members and 23 observation members, with 2 advisory groups and 6 joint working groups, "said Wu Zhendou, Director of the International Cooperation Department of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine." With the joint efforts of experts from various countries, ISO/TC249 has released 112 international standards for traditional Chinese medicine At the same time, China supports other international organizations in formulating international standards for traditional Chinese medicine. According to Wu Zhendou, at present, the World Federation of Chinese Medicine has issued 143 international organization standards such as Chinese medicine terminology, clinical technical standards, education and health tourism, and the World Federation of Acupuncture has also successively issued 25 international standards for Chinese medicine acupuncture and moxibustion covering guidelines, technology and management. These two organizations have also become A-level liaison organizations of ISO/TC249, active in the forefront of traditional Chinese medicine standardization work, "he said. In addition, in response to the issue of inconsistent standards for traditional Chinese medicine textbooks used in various schools around the world, "we have compiled a teaching syllabus and organized experts at home and abroad to write 13 core textbooks on traditional Chinese medicine. As a standard guide, it is conducive to standardizing traditional Chinese medicine education worldwide," said Zhang Boli. "This set of standards has been used in more than 50 countries and regions, ensuring that the talents trained in traditional Chinese medicine worldwide are qualified and promoting the sustainable development of traditional Chinese medicine in global health
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