Work on Chinese Medicine in 2012 Determines Five Key Points

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the highest-level policy document for the development of the Chinese medicine industry, “Several Opinions of the State Council on Supporting and Promoting the Development of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry”, has played a guiding role and exerted a lot of results since its promulgation in 2009. At the 2012 national conference on Chinese medicine convened in Beijing on January 10, Wang Guoqiang, vice minister of the Ministry of Health and director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine conducted an overall introduction, and stated that this year will focus on the implementation of the "Several Opinions." Supervision and system assessment.

Wang Guoqiang said that in the past three years since the issuance of Certain Opinions, the competent authorities at various levels at the national and local levels have effectively carried out the implementation of various policies and measures put forward in the “Several Opinions”. The first is the policy. At present, 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have issued implementation opinions or support special documents for promoting the development of Chinese medicine. 11 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have convened Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine in the name of a party committee or government. meeting. The second is to build the mechanism. More efforts were made to strengthen the linkage between upper and lower levels, and innovation promoted the scientific development of the Chinese medicine industry. The third is to increase investment. In the past three years, the central government has invested a total of 17.3 billion yuan to support the construction of 16 national TCM clinical research bases and 313 key TCM hospitals at or above the municipal level. At the same time, all levels of government’s investment in the development of Chinese medicine has also grown substantially. The fourth is reconciliation. Through strengthening communication and coordination, we will further refine policies and measures to support and promote the development of Chinese medicine. Wang Guoqiang said that this year it is necessary to focus on organizing the evaluation and promotion of the implementation of the "Several Opinions."

"Completely implementing the "Several Opinions" and actively promoting the role of TCM in deepening medical reforms remains the central task of this year's TCM work." Wang Guoqiang asked to focus on five areas: First, the county-level public Chinese medicine hospital Focus on promoting the reform of public TCM hospitals. The second is to further implement the policy of encouraging the provision and use of traditional Chinese medicine in new rural cooperative medical care, basic medical insurance for urban employees, and basic medical insurance for urban residents, and to actively explore and promote the reform of payment methods and payment systems in line with the characteristics of Chinese medicine services. The third is to further improve the selection of Chinese medicines for the 2012 basic medicine list, explore the establishment of systems for production, supply, procurement, distribution, use, and pricing of TCM decoction pieces in accordance with the characteristics of TCM, and improve the policies for encouraging the preparation and use of TCM preparations in medical institutions. Fourth, in the process of promoting the equalization of basic public health services, we will continue to carry out and comprehensively summarize the pilot work of basic public health services for Chinese medicine service projects. The fifth is to further strengthen the capacity building of traditional Chinese medicine service in township health centers and community health service centers.