I saw David many times between 1988 and 1993, when I was invited by Nobel laureates professors Yang Chen-ning and Charles Kao Kuen to return to Hong Kong and establish the Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology. David had just founded the China Club.
EAST CHINA'S ZHEJIANG PROVINCE has made traditional Chinese medicine a compulsory subject for grade 5 students. On Monday, local media outlets said TCM textbooks are being printed and will soon be dispatched to the primary schools.
Traditional Chinese medicine education has been made part of the primary school curriculum in Zhejiang province, a decision that has provoked heated discussion online.
Luo, 37, is a resident of Getuhe Village, which is well-known for its steep karst mountains. Large numbers of swallows live in caves on the cliffs, and their excrement makes good fertilizer for the villages crops.
This year's session coincides with the 13th Zhang Zhongjing Medicine Culture Festival, an annual event in commemoration of Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical scientist from Nanyang during the East Han Dynasty (AD 25–220).
Shanxi Tianzhirun Date Industry Co, a date producer based in Shanxi, will cooperate with Flinders University in Australia to develop date and walnut functional foods, according to an agreement signed in Taiyuan on Sept 19.
Shanxi has been developing its traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) industry with 90 percent of its least developed counties now planting TCM, according to a provincial TCM development expo held on Sept 16.
Those arriving at the Jiangsu provincial capital of Nanjing and disembarking via its central train station are welcomed with a glorious vista of the city, which is set upon the opposite shores of Xuanwu Lake.
CAMS and PUMC former president Gu Fangzhou developed China's first polio vaccines, in particular the "Sugar Ball" attenuated oral vaccine, first created in 1959. Implementation of a countrywide immunization strategy eradicated the indigenous polio strain by 1994.
Mid-Autumn Day, the 15th day of the eighth month of China's lunar calendar, falls on Oct 4 this year. The festival has been celebrated for more than 3,000 years during the full moon to mark the autumn harvest. It is also an occasion for family gatherings featuring lanterns, riddles and, of course, mooncakes.
Liu Jie, vice-president of the US-based Carestream Health Inc, a provider of medical imaging systems and information technology solutions, is passionate about digital technologies and experienced in adapting quickly to a fast-changing market environment.
A program has been launched to offer free treatment to 100 diabetics from Guangzhou at a top traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Guizhou province.