Move to boost ethnic minority medicine
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A DRAFT law to enhance the role of traditional Chinese medicine in the medical system was tabled for a third reading at the bimonthly session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee yesterday.
It advocates stepping up the establishment of institutions practicing ethnic minority medicine and better training for practitioners. It also calls for ethnic autonomous regions to create their own measures to develop local ethnic minority medicine.
TCM has gained increasing global attention since Chinese pharmacist Tu Youyou was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work using artemisinin, which is extracted from wormwood, to treat malaria.
Ethnic minority medicine is an important part of TCM and, according to a white paper issued by the State Council Information Office this month, 60,000 TCM and ethnic minority medical drugs have been approved.
At the end of last year, there were 3,966 TCM hospitals and 42,528 TCM clinics across the country, including 253 hospitals and 550 clinics specializing in ethnic minority medicine.
There has also been steady progress in the standardization of ethnic minority medicine, the white paper said.
Yesterday’s draft also says China will protect TCM’s intellectual property, including “special protection” for formulas considered “state secrets.”
It also vows enhanced supervision on quality, including a ban on the use of toxic pesticides when herbs are planted.
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