Original title: Passing on the Yellow Technique of Blessing the Health of the People (Great Health Observation)
People's Daily overseas edition reporter Wang Meihua
In October 2019, the National Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine was held, and the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting the Inheritance and Innovative Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine were released. In the past two years, what new progress has been made in the innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine? How can Chinese medicine be further integrated into people's lives? How to accelerate the development of traditional Chinese medicine during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period?
Recently, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine held a press conference to introduce the practice and exploration of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shandong and other places, from which we can get a glimpse of the whole picture of the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine.

On August 11, at the pharmacy of Zhangjiajie Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Hunan Province, pharmacists prepared Chinese medicine according to the prescription.
Recently, in order to help prevent and control the epidemic, Zhangjiajie Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital has boiled soup medicines in accordance with the traditional Chinese medicine prevention formula for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and distributed them free of charge to frontline workers and isolated people in the fight against the epidemic. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Sihan
Inheritance and innovation bloom everywhere
In recent years, all localities have followed the law of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, inherited the essence, kept the right and innovated, and adopted a series of measures -
Deputy Director of the Shandong Provincial Health Commission and Deputy Director of the Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine solemnly introduced that Shandong Province has explored and implemented the strategy of "inheriting the three classics", that is, "learning classics, using the scriptures, and passing on experience". It has built 10 bases for the "Inheritance of the Three Classics", 103 provincial-level famous and old Chinese medicine expert inheritance studios, and 24 Qilu medical school of traditional Chinese medicine inheritance studios, and carried out the province's five-level traditional Chinese medicine teacher education project, forming a multi-channel teacher education model. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shandong will continue to excavate the classics of traditional Chinese medicine, systematically sort out the inheritance of Qilu traditional Chinese medicine, and create a "three- " education system of Qilu Traditional Chinese Medicine featuring "famous doctor classroom + famous doctor studio + famous doctor forum", and further enhance the ability of clinical Chinese medicine classics, prescriptions and empirical learning.
Xu Qingfeng, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission and director of the Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that Guangdong has always adhered to both inheritance and innovation. In terms of inheritance, we have excavated the characteristic technologies of folk traditional Chinese medicine for the whole country, carried out the "Xinglin Treasure Hunt" activity for 12 consecutive years, and sorted out 415 characteristic technologies of traditional Chinese medicine; carried out the construction of "classic wards" of traditional Chinese medicine, used pure Chinese medicine treatment methods to carry out critical and critical care treatment, and promoted the "classic return to clinical and clinical return to classics"; and solidly promoted the implementation of the qualification examination of traditional medicine teachers and doctors with real expertise. In terms of innovation, we will build a high-level scientific research and innovation system; drive the output of achievements with projects, and promote the integrated development of traditional Chinese medicine, medical production, education and research. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guangdong Province will systematically carry out research on the clinical experience and academic thought of Lingnan famous chinese medicine masters in the past, promote the construction of high-level traditional Chinese medicine scientific research platforms such as the State Key Laboratory of Wet Certificates of Traditional Chinese Medicine, build a research center for evidence-based medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, and continue to make efforts to solve major basic scientific problems and key technical problems in the field of traditional Chinese medicine.
Zhang Ping, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission and director of the Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that Zhejiang Province has closely focused on the goals of "Zhejiang Zhizhi", "Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Zhejiang Innovation", "Zhejiang Good Medicine" and "Zhejiang School Inheritance", and built 3 provincial-level comprehensive reform cities and 8 pioneer counties, laying a good foundation for the regional practice of building a health development model with Chinese characteristics that complements and coordinates the development of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Deepen the digital reform of traditional Chinese medicine, build a special area of traditional Chinese medicine "Zhejiang Famous Medical Hall" in the "Zhejiang Office", and provide "one network service" for famous Chinese medicine, so that the masses can enjoy high-quality, efficient and convenient traditional Chinese medicine services.
On October 21st, students from Zhongguan Town Center School in Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, visited the Pan Surgical Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine to learn about Chinese medicine. Wang Zhengzhao (People's Vision)
Contribute to the health of the people
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Chinese medicine has been deeply involved in epidemic prevention and control and treatment throughout the process, making important contributions to protecting the lives and health of the people, which is also a vivid practice of inheriting the essence of traditional Chinese medicine and keeping integrity and innovation.
"In the local epidemic that occurred in Guangdong Province in May this year, the designated treatment hospitals comprehensively established a joint diagnosis system of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and confirmed cases and asymptomatic infected people were included in the scope of traditional Chinese medicine dialectical treatment, and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine was carried out." Xu Qingfeng introduced that traditional Chinese medicine has fully participated in the diagnosis and treatment of 190 cases of positive infection, of which 166 infected people treated in Guangzhou, 118 cases were treated with pure chinese medicine, accounting for 71.0%. In the head-to-head confrontation with delta mutant strains, Guangdong faced Delta for the first time, insisting on the coordination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine to ensure "zero deaths".
"According to the clinical summary of front-line experts, practice shows that traditional Chinese medicine has a good effect on mild and ordinary types of patients infected with Delta variant strains, and also has a certain effect on blocking severe diseases." Xu Qingfeng introduced, the delta virus load is high, the patient's condition progresses rapidly after infection, it is possible to become severe or directly turn into critical illness in a short period of time, and the high fever lasts for 48 hours without retreating means that the patient's condition has become serious, in this regard, on the basis of clearing the heat and relieving the heat, the use of Angong Niuhuang pill has been added, and the trend of severe illness has been successfully blocked in the early stage of the disease.
In the treatment of critical and severe diseases, Guangdong Province adopts the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and flexibly uses traditional Chinese medicine solutions.
"Some severely ill patients are mainly deficient in the early stage, extreme fatigue, loss of appetite, weak breathing, yellow and thick tongue, and use American ginseng soup or Korean ginseng soup to supplement qi. Maximize the stabilization of patient vital signs and buy time for the recovery of immune function. Xu Qingfeng pointed out that the participation of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of patients has obvious effects in alleviating symptoms such as fever and blocking the progression of the disease, improving immune function, reducing viral load, and shortening the time for patients to turn negative, and explored the path and method of coordination between traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of cases of mutated strains.
The deep participation and extensive publicity of Traditional Chinese medicine in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic have enabled the general public to have a greater understanding of Traditional Chinese medicine and a deeper trust. At the press conference, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine released the "13th Five-Year Plan" national TCM health culture knowledge popularization work and Chinese citizens TCM health literacy level survey. The survey results show that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the level of Chinese citizens' health and cultural literacy in traditional Chinese medicine has increased year by year, reaching 20.69% in 2020, an increase of nearly 8 percentage points over the early days of the "13th Five-Year Plan", of which 2020 will increase the most.
The grassroots service front has a lot to offer
Chinese medicine originated in the folk, based on the grassroots, but also should be developed at the grassroots level.
At present, the construction of grass-roots Traditional Chinese medicine halls in Zhejiang Province has achieved 100% full coverage, and community health service stations (village clinics) can provide more than 90% of the 4 types of traditional Chinese medicine technologies.
Zhang Ping introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Zhejiang will strive for 95% of county-level TCM hospitals to reach the level of Grade II A or above; by 2025, the health management rate of TCM for the elderly and children will reach 80% and 90% respectively; the proportion of patients receiving TCM rehabilitation technical guidance among rehabilitated patients will reach more than 70%; explore the pilot grassroots TCM talent order training model; strengthen the construction of grassroots famous and old TCM expert inheritance studios; by 2025, community health service centers, The township health center is fully equipped with traditional Chinese medicine practitioners (assistant) physicians.
In Shandong, 16 cities have achieved full coverage of government-run traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, 104 government-run traditional Chinese medicine hospitals at the county (city, district) level, more than 99% of community health service centers and township health centers have set up comprehensive service areas for traditional Chinese medicine, and 79% of village clinics can provide traditional Chinese medicine services.
Solemnly introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shandong will implement the grass-roots Traditional Chinese medicine service capacity improvement project to create a 15-minute traditional Chinese medicine health service circle; promote 100% of community health service institutions and township health centers to provide traditional Chinese medicine services, and 85% of village clinics can provide traditional Chinese medicine services; optimize the grass-roots traditional Chinese medicine service model, and accelerate the realization of the goal of "general diseases are solved in cities and counties, and daily diseases are solved at the grass-roots level".
In Guangdong, there are 23,000 TCM medical institutions, 192 TCM hospitals, and 50,000 TCM practitioners. There are 5 national TCM inheritance and innovation project key TCM hospitals, 2 national TCM clinical research bases, 2 national regional medical center construction and output hospitals, and 19 national regional TCM (specialty) diagnosis and treatment center construction projects in the province, all of which rank among the top in the country.
Xu Qingfeng introduced that Guangdong will achieve full coverage of county-run traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in the province, and full coverage of second-class traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in counties with a permanent population of more than 300,000 people; all community health service centers and township health centers set up traditional Chinese medicine halls and equipped with traditional Chinese medicine physicians; strengthen the promotion of appropriate technologies for grass-roots traditional Chinese medicine to ensure that grass-roots traditional Chinese medicine halls can provide more than 6 types of appropriate technical services for traditional Chinese medicine.