A senior Chinese official has pledged to support and develop
traditional Chinese medicines (TCM)?firmly and vigorously as
it is facing a new of period of development with enormous
opportunities.
Vice Premier Wu Yi made the remarks on Thursday at a technical
competition of the Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Chinese
People's Liberation Army (PLA).
In her speech, the official praised the Army for its
contribution to developing and utilizing the TCM.
The TCM is a treasure of the Chinese culture and a crystal of
the Chinese civilization, which has contributed a lot to the
prosperity of the Chinese nation, said Wu, who is also a member of
the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central
Committee.
She called for being innovative in inheriting the TCM, while
absorbing achievements of Western medicines and other medicines of
ethnic minorities in the country.
Moreover, the official said, greater efforts should be made to
bring all people, including both urbanites and rural people, under
the service of the TCM.
(Xinhua News Agency August 31, 2007)
