BAO’AN District Acupuncture Clinical Research Center was inaugurated July 10, the latest fruit of the district’s unremitting efforts to promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

The center is located at Bao’an TCM (Group) Hospital and will be led by Fu Wenbin, a leading acupuncturist and professor at Guangdong Provincial TCM Hospital. Its medical team will be mainly made up of Fu’s apprentice doctor group, with support from the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial TCM Hospital, and Spaulding Neuromodulation Center of Harvard Medical School. The center is expected to help improve clinical acupuncture techniques and modern rehabilitation technologies in the district, as well as scientific research and medical staff training in TCM.

The district government hopes that the center will become a first-class treatment center for acupuncture, a healing technique that has thousands of years of history.

At an inauguration ceremony, Bao’an Party chief Yao Ren said that as a grassroots government, Bao’an has been dedicated to carrying forward the tradition and ensuring the development of TCM in an effort to implement the strategy of “Healthy China 2030.”

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The district is the first in Shenzhen to apply to establish a TCM comprehensive demonstration zone, and has proposed the goal of building itself into an innovative district in TCM and setting up China’s first TCM hospital that doesn’t employ Western medical treatment. It is also mulling the establishment of a TCM development fund, according to Yao.

Bao’an announced the establishment of Bao’an TCM (Group) Hospital in December 2015, the first of its kind in Shenzhen. The district is in discussions about possible comprehensive cooperation with Southern Medical University and China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. It is expected to boast more than 100 community health centers that feature TCM treatment. The district’s intelligent hospital system has benefited more than 200,000 patients since it was launched last year.

TCM, ranging from acupuncture to herbal concoctions, has over 3,000 years of history, and has received a vote of confidence from the World Health Organization, according to Chinese media.

According to China’s first white paper on the development of TCM, released in 2016, TCM has come to play an increasingly significant role in socio-economic development; it has become a unique resource in terms of healthcare, an economic resource with great potential, a scientific and technological resource with original advantages, an outstanding cultural resource, and an ecological resource of great importance. The time has come for TCM to experience a renaissance.(SD News)(SD News)