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National plan will promote traditional Chinese medicine

Xinhua, February 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

China will develop traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into a pillar industry, according to a blueprint released by the State Council, China's Cabinet, on Friday.

The plan proposes universal access to TCM care by 2020. By 2030, TCM should make a notably greater contribution to social and economic development.

The plan, calling for equal attention to TCM and Western medicine, set out tasks including "Internet + TCM", integrating TCM with elder care and tourism, protecting the inheritance of knowledge and technology, developing new drugs -- particularly those used in treating major communicable disease and severe illnesses -- and boosting industrialized production of drugs.

The plan proposes changes to the law and standardization, along with teaching TCM basics to primary and middle school students. Endi