"This is the 10 th province I have visited in Zimbabwe and the 11 th free clinic I attended." On December 2, 2023, the 20th batch of Zimbabwean medical teams from China (Hunan) where Hu Sha is located came to Manikaran Province, 300 kilometers away from Harare, the capital, to carry out free health clinic activities. The acupuncturist from Hunan Province is currently the head of the propaganda team of the medical team. She told reporters: "This year’s free clinic plan is ‘ January 1st province ’ At present, it has traveled to all provinces in Zimbabwe, with a total of more than 6,000 consultations and a journey of over 7,000 kilometers, which is unprecedented in the medical work of aiding Tianjin. "
At present, Chinese medicine has spread to 196 countries and regions, and its international influence is expanding day by day. It is understood that Hunan Province is one of the important sending provinces of China’s medical assistance to Africa. The medical assistance to Africa began in 1973 and has gone through 50 years. On November 24th, 2023, Li Xiaosong, Party Secretary and Director of the Health and Wellness Committee of Hunan Province, said at the press conference that Hunan Province launched the overseas dissemination of Chinese medicine, and set up three overseas Chinese medicine centers in Zimbabwe, United Arab Emirates and Pakistan to promote Huxiang Chinese medicine to "group out to sea". What are the characteristics of overseas exchanges and cooperation of traditional Chinese medicine in Hunan Province, and what achievements have been made?
Hu Sha (first from right) and his colleagues are giving acupuncture therapy to patients.
Changing "blood transfusion" into "hematopoiesis" and promoting the cultivation of international Chinese medicine talents in two ways
The 20th batch of Zimbabwean medical teams from China (Hunan) has 11 people, including 2 Chinese medicine practitioners. Chinese medicine services mainly rely on China — Zimbabwe Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Center (referred to as "Chinese Medicine Center"). The center is located in the largest public hospital in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe — — Parirenyatwa Hospital is the first Chinese medicine clinic in Zimbabwe and the largest Chinese medicine acupuncture center in southern Africa. Chinese medicine center provides acupuncture, massage, cupping, physical therapy, traditional Chinese medicine and other special treatments for local people and overseas Chinese.
"Our clinic has been scheduled for next April, and Chinese medicine is very popular among local people and overseas Chinese." Hu Sha said that with the efforts of two groups of medical teams for more than two years, there are currently 12 treatment beds in the Chinese medicine center, with an average daily outpatient volume of over 50 people. It is worth mentioning that in addition to TCM diagnosis and treatment, the medical aid team in Tianjin is also responsible for the training and teaching of doctors and training local Chinese medicine acupuncture talents in Zimbabwe. Xiao Wenming, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said at the press conference that Hunan Province ensured that Chinese medicine experts participated in the selection of foreign aid medical team members. While providing acupuncture and other Chinese medicine services, we trained 10 Chinese medicine talents for Zimbabwe.
In addition, in actively participating in the construction of the "Belt and Road" and spreading Chinese medicine culture, Xiao Qinghua, vice president of the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, said that the hospital has established Dubai Hospital, the first affiliated hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, in the United Arab Emirates. Six medical staff have obtained Dubai qualification and accumulated 55,000 services.
Tuden Basang (middle) is doing wrist hand consultation for patients under the guidance of tutor Zhang Wei.
At the same time of "going out to sea in groups", a group of "foreign Chinese medicine practitioners" came to Hunan, and Thupten Palzang (English name) was one of them. He is a general practitioner in a secondary hospital in Bhutan. He has been a doctor for ten years and is now studying acupuncture and massage in the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine. The reason why he came to China to study Chinese medicine, Tuden Basang said: "I chose to study Chinese medicine, especially acupuncture, because Chinese medicine has unique advantages in treating certain diseases, such as chronic diseases, pain and health preservation. Chinese medicine pays attention to holism and regards patients as a whole, not just ‘ Headache cures the head and foot pain cures the foot ’ 。” Tudenbasan said that after graduation, he will integrate the Chinese medicine technology he has learned into clinical diagnosis and treatment, and provide patients with more alternative treatment options.
Cheng Bo, secretary of the Party Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said at the press conference that in promoting the cultivation of international Chinese medicine talents, the hospital has carried out 346 clinical internships in Chinese medicine for more than 10 countries and provided online and offline Chinese medicine training and Chinese medicine cultural experience for 300 countries.
Building a platform to promote international cooperation in the whole industry chain of traditional Chinese medicine
"China and Africa have great demand for further cooperation in promoting trade in traditional Chinese medicine, cultivation, development and research of medicinal materials." Zhu Wei, deputy director of acupuncture and tuina rehabilitation department of Hunan Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine (affiliated hospital of Hunan Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine), was the captain of the 19th batch of Zimbabwean medical teams in China (Hunan), and returned to China after a one-year foreign aid in March 2023. He said that there are many high-quality plants and medicinal materials in Africa. Through expositions and forums, relevant officials and entrepreneurs from African governments visited Hunan, and many people showed great interest in Chinese medicine and acupuncture in China. Further strengthen international cooperation, promote Chinese medicine products to enter the African market, and build a new highland of global Chinese medicine industry. According to reports, the China-Africa Chinese Medicine Cooperation Forum held at the end of June 2023 was the "first show" at the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo and will become a permanent project of the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo.
In February 2023, the General Office of the State Council issued the Implementation Plan of Major Projects for the Revitalization and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which mentioned in the plan for the promotion of international trade in traditional Chinese medicine that the export base of traditional Chinese medicine services should be built with high quality, new formats and new modes of export of traditional Chinese medicine services should be explored, and internationally renowned brands of traditional Chinese medicine services should be cultivated.
It is understood that in March 2022, the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was selected as the national export base of traditional Chinese medicine services and became the first national export base of traditional Chinese medicine services in Hunan Province. Zhu Zhenhua, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and president of the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that in order to provide Chinese medicine services to overseas people, the hospital established the International Medical Department in 2018, which was the first high-end medical service platform for public Chinese medicine hospitals in Hunan Province to provide special medical services for patients at home and abroad, with 7,736 outpatient visits in 2022 and 1-mdash in 2023; The number of outpatient visits in November was 9432. In 2023, the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was approved as the "National International Cooperation Base of Traditional Chinese Medicine", and gradually exported the technology, products, talents, culture and brands of traditional Chinese medicine to countries around the world.
In addition, in terms of building a platform, Hunan Province took the lead in initiating the establishment of a collaborative development alliance for the entire industrial chain of Chinese medicine in Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Taking development and innovation as the leading factor, the Alliance explores a new path of high-quality development of traditional Chinese medicine for mutual benefit and win-win in three provinces and two regions, cultivates a global highland of traditional Chinese medicine industry, and builds a "demonstration zone of coordinated development of Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao" with high quality, providing new help and new impetus for the reform and development of traditional Chinese medicine in China.
Build a bridge to help Chinese medicine go public overseas.
It is reported that China’s current exports of traditional Chinese medicine products show a steady growth trend. 1-mdash in 2023; In June, China’s exports of traditional Chinese medicine products reached US$ 2.915 billion, up by 3.63% year-on-year. The export of traditional Chinese medicine products has become an important variety of medicine "going out".
As a major province of traditional Chinese medicine, Hunan Province has a unique resource endowment and humanistic foundation. The planting area of traditional Chinese medicine in the province exceeds 4.5 million mu, and it has nearly 5,000 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine resources, ranking fourth in the country and first in central China. The output value of the whole industrial chain of traditional Chinese medicine exceeds 100 billion yuan. Facing the difficulties and pain points of "going out" of Chinese medicine enterprises, Hunan Province has given targeted solutions.
As the Chinese patent medicine has not yet formed a global unified scientific standard system, the access conditions and supervision methods in various countries are not uniform. On the one hand, the demand for international trade is rising, and on the other hand, the international standards for related varieties are lacking, which hinders Chinese medicine from going overseas to some extent. Standardization has become one of the key issues for Chinese medicine to "go global".
On May 12, 2022, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) officially released the international standard of Chinese Medicine-Sinomenine, which is the first ISO standard for Chinese herbal medicines developed in Hunan Province, filling the gap in the field of international standard formulation of Chinese herbal medicines in Hunan Province, and will better promote Chinese herbal medicines in Hunan Province to the world and benefit human health.
"For Chinese medicine products to go to sea, relying on enterprises themselves to open up overseas markets has high risks and uncertainties, and the cost is uncontrollable." As a national key Chinese medicine enterprise and a key high-tech enterprise in Hunan Province, Jiuzhitang, a century-old brand, can’t "go global" without the innovative linkage of large and small environments.
Zhang Liangbin, the financial director of Jiuzhitang Group, talked about "going out to sea" and was quite touched. "For Jiuzhitang, to open overseas markets, we chose to cooperate with overseas export industrial parks supported by the government, and chose the Brazilian market mainly because Brazil is a major overseas partner of Guangdong-Macao Chinese Medicine Industrial Park." In addition, Zhang Liangbin said that Chinese medicine products need to be excellent in order to open overseas markets, and product quality and curative effect are crucial. As a time-honored Chinese brand, Jiuzhitang also adheres to the concept of innovation in inheritance and development in innovation. At present, the research and development of classic prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine are being carried out, and at the same time, the existing products are being re-evaluated and the indications are being expanded. The second is to have good local distributors, and the third is to have professional licensed pharmacists to train distributors according to the efficacy and applicable population of each product, so that overseas friends can know, understand and accept it through professional marketing team, and gradually fall in love with Chinese medicine products and culture.
At present, seven proprietary Chinese medicine products produced by Jiuzhitang Co., Ltd. have obtained the import and business license of the National Health Supervision Bureau of Brazil (ANVISA), which indicates that these products are qualified to be sold in the Brazilian market and can be legally sold in hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and other medical institutions in Brazil in the form of prescription drugs.
Xiao Wenming, deputy director of Hunan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that at present, 16 fist products of traditional Chinese medicine in Hunan Province have been registered and listed overseas, and will continue to communicate and coordinate with relevant departments in the future to speed up the overseas registration process of Chinese medicine enterprises, reduce the registration cost of enterprises, and further promote the overseas listing of Chinese medicine products in Hunan Province. (Proofread Fan Lijun)