Companies need modern intellectual property rights systems and foresight to protect China's traditional brands overseas, officials and industry insiders said at a forum last month in Beijing.
More than 100 countries and regions around the world have set up TCM institutions, with the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea investing heavily in related research and medication development, industry, analyses show.
This means there are clear quality standards for Chinese herbs exported to Europe, which help the drugs gain wider acceptance in foreign markets, according to Professor Dr. Gerhard Franz, Chairman of the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) Working Party of the European Pharmacopoeia.
A remote medical platform connecting the Karamay Central Hospital and Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Beijing was set up on June 24, which will allow Karamay people to see the country's top TCM doctors.
This year's Sanfu Days, or dog days of summer, is supposedly ten days longer than the usual 30 days, according to a calculation of the Purple Hills Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Monday.
Russian university students experienced having acupuncture needles put in their arms by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners. "It is relaxing and I feel warm," said a smiling female student while looking at a needle in her right arm.
During the 1970s, doctor Zhang Tingdong, who focused on research into blood disease, heard that the poison arsenic, a kind of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), was used by an old practitioner of TCM to treat cancer in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, and many patients has been cured.
On Oct 5, the Nobel Prize committee announced the 2015 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: William Campbell and Satoshi Omura for their work on a therapy against roundworm, shared with Tu Youyou, the first ever Nobel laureate working in traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), for a therapy against malaria.
Amway has viewed China as an important revenue source as well as an ideal location to expand its new research and development efforts. Amway China is the largest affiliate of Amway Corporation, with sales figures hitting a new record of more than 29 billion yuan ($4.59 billion) in 2013.
A comprehensive reform will focus on State-owned TCM hospitals at county and city levels to strengthen their nonprofit nature while making them "better serve the people," according to a document jointly released Friday by the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
"Malaria is a pandemic that can go easily out of control, especially in low income regions such as Africa. So all parties should, under the framework of the WHO(World Health Organization), try their best to delay the process of artemisinin resistance."