An interview with Wang Guoqiang of the Ministry of Health

Recently, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine held a symposium to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the “Hengyang Conference” in Hengyang, Hunan Province. Wang Guoqiang, Deputy Minister of Health and Director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, stating that “it is necessary to continuously cultivate new features, constantly create new advantages, and effectively give Chinese medicine its unique advantages to serve the people.”

Thirty years ago on April 16, 1982, the Ministry of Health held the first national conference on the construction of Chinese medicine hospitals and higher Chinese medicine academies (hereinafter referred to as “Hengyang Conference”) in Hengyang, Hunan Province. The conference clearly put forward the fundamental guiding principles of “emphasizing the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, giving full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, and developing the cause of traditional Chinese medicine”, further emphasizing that traditional Chinese medicine institutions should maintain and carry forward the development ideas of characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, and put forward to strengthen the construction of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals and improve the higher traditional Chinese medicine. The quality of running schools and cultivating talents for traditional Chinese medicine, and a series of measures to expedite the development of traditional Chinese medicine, defined the orientation and connotation of the establishment of medical institutions for traditional Chinese medicine and the mission and objectives of higher education institutions for Chinese medicine.

In his speech, Wang Guoqiang pointed out that the "Hengyang Conference" was held at an important historical juncture in the development of Chinese medicine. The conference was a very important meeting in the history of the development of Chinese medicine. It had a significant and far-reaching impact on the development of the Chinese medicine industry, with turning points and landmarks. The 30 years of practice has proved that the spirit of the "Hengyang Conference" is in line with the actual development of the Chinese medicine industry in China. It has made significant and positive efforts to fully implement the party's principles and policies on Chinese medicine, maintain and give play to the characteristics of Chinese medicine, and promote the development of Chinese medicine. Impact.

After summing up the achievements made in the development of traditional Chinese medicine over the past 30 years, Wang Guoqiang said that since the deepening of medical reform, Chinese medicine has been actively involved in giving full play to the advantages of the exact clinical curative effect, the unique role of preventive health care, flexible treatment methods, and relatively low cost. The masses saw a doctor's burden, controlled medical expenses rose too fast, and improved the access to primary health care services. They made unique contributions and promoted the establishment of a medical and health system with Chinese characteristics. He emphasized that the fundamental reason why we have achieved all the achievements and progress since the “Hengyang Conference” in the past 30 years boiled down to “a consistent and consistent implementation of the Party’s principles and policies on Chinese medicine, followed the development law of TCM, and maintained and brought into full play the characteristics of TCM. Keep pace with the times and continuously promote inheritance and innovation."

Wang Guoqiang pointed out that over the past 30 years, the direction of TCM development has become more clear and the thinking has become clearer. The basic ideas for the comprehensive and coordinated development of the “six in one” of TCM medical care, health care, scientific research, education, industry, and culture have been established. The development approach of traditional Chinese medicine has shifted from focusing on a single disease treatment model to a comprehensive prevention and treatment model that emphasizes both disease treatment and prevention health care, health rehabilitation and integration; from the emphasis on the development of Chinese medicine hospitals, to the emphasis on the development of hospitals, but also pay attention to A variety of organizational forms such as outpatient departments, clinics, and traditional Chinese medicine doctors have developed in common; from focusing on the scale expansion of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, we have shifted to maintaining a modest scale of development while paying more attention to the construction of feature advantages and the improvement of service functions.

Wang Guoqiang emphasized that characteristics are the core of the survival of a business, and the advantage is a powerful driving force for career development. At present, in particular, it is necessary to accurately analyze and comprehensively grasp the various factors and major health problems affecting the health of urban and rural residents in the new situation, continuously promote the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, constantly cultivate new features, constantly create new advantages, and provide better opportunities for the people. Safe, effective, convenient, inexpensive, and high-quality Chinese medicine services truly allow the Chinese medicine to take advantage of its advantages to serve the people, benefit the people, and make greater contributions to the health of the people. We must actively learn from and absorb new ideas, new experiences, and new achievements in modern science and technology and modern medicine, continuously enrich and develop the theory and practice of traditional Chinese medicine, and maintain the nationality, inherit tradition, embody the times, and be creative in maintaining Chinese medicine forever. Vitality and vitality.

Wang Guoqiang conducted an in-depth analysis of the current situation facing the Chinese medicine industry, clarified the ideas for the next stage of development and reform, and put forward specific work requirements. In particular, we must strengthen our confidence, persist in highlighting special advantages, and promote inherited innovation as the basic requirements for the development of Chinese medicine.

Wang Guoqiang said that the report of the 18th National Congress of the People's Republic of China re-emphasizes "the emphasis on equal emphasis on Chinese medicine and Western medicine" and "supports and promotes the development of Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine". This reflects our Party's emphasis and recognition on the unique role of Chinese medicine in strengthening social construction in improving people's livelihood. It shows that the party attaches great importance to the development of Chinese medicine and has strong determination. At present, the Chinese medicine industry is facing an unprecedented period of strategic opportunities for development. Deepening the reform of the medical and health system has injected new impetus into the development of Chinese medicine. TCM must seize and make good use of this important period of strategic opportunities, advance with the times, actively participate in medical reforms, give full play to the advantages and role of traditional Chinese medicine, and continue to give play to the important role of Chinese medicine in economic society.

At the meeting, representatives of Chinese medicine experts, colleges and universities, Chinese medicine hospitals, and management departments respectively spoke, exchanged ideas, talked about the experience, and discussed the development of Chinese medicine.

The meeting was chaired by Wu Gang, deputy director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Deputy Director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Yu Wenming, Deputy Secretary-General of the People's Government of Hunan Province Huang Weidong, Party Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Department of Health Xiao Cequn, Director of the Hunan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Shao Xiangning, Secretary of the Hengyang Municipal Party Committee Tong Mingqian and Deputy Mayor Xu Xu Satisfaction, Provinces across the country, The autonomous region, municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities with independent plans, and provincial-level provincial capital cities’ health bureaus are in charge of the director of the Office of Chinese Medicine, the heads of various organs and agencies of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the heads of directly-affiliated units, and the principals of some colleges and universities of Chinese medicine, the directors of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, Over 140 people from Chinese medicine experts and news media attended the conference.

After the meeting, the participants attended the opening ceremony of the “Hengyang Conference” theme park at Hengyang Chinese Medicine Hospital, and visited the “Hengyang Conference” Memorial Hall, the Chinese Medicine Cultural Corridor, and the Chinese Herbal Piece Processing and Processing Center of the hospital.