2015 is a crucial year for comprehensively deepening reforms, the inaugural year for advancing the rule of law in all respects, the final year of the 12th Five-Year Plan, and the year for implementing the key spirit of Vice Premier Liu Yandong's important speech. Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) must seek truth and pragmatism, and with a "hammering nails" spirit, effectively carry out all key tasks for 2015.
The overall requirements for TCM work in 2015 are: thoroughly implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee, and the Central Economic Work Conference; focus on reform to fully promote the improvement of policies and mechanisms for TCM development; focus on development to fully advance the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive plan for TCM development; focus on the rule of law to fully drive the construction of legal systems, deeply advance law-based administration, emancipate the mind, reform and innovate, seek truth and pragmatism, strive with determination, and comprehensively promote the scientific development of TCM.
Key Words: "13th Five-Year Plan"
Based on the comprehensive completion of the "12th Five-Year Plan" tasks
Fully strategize the development of TCM during the "13th Five-Year Plan"
This year marks the final year of the "12th Five-Year Plan" implementation and is a critical year for scientifically planning TCM development during the "13th Five-Year Plan," holding significant bridging importance. First, ensure the comprehensive conclusion of the "12th Five-Year Plan" tasks. Carefully summarize experiences and identify shortcomings to lay the foundation and provide reference for the "13th Five-Year Plan" implementation. Second, fully prepare the formulation of the "13th Five-Year Plan." The planning process should be based on a full understanding of the situation facing TCM development, its historical position, and future trends, adhere to demand and problem orientation, propose goals, indicators, major projects, significant initiatives, and key policies for TCM development, ensuring they are implementable, quantifiable, and evaluable, while connecting with the "12th Five-Year Plan" and appropriately planning ahead. Third, fully prepare for the implementation of the "13th Five-Year Plan." On one hand, develop implementation plans based on the key tasks identified in the plan, set timelines, and create roadmaps. On the other hand, for key tasks with a solid foundation and ongoing progress, plan while advancing.
Key Words: Deepening Reform
With improving policies and mechanisms as the key
Fully advance the deepening reform of TCM
Practice has proven that scientific and comprehensive policies and mechanisms are fundamental guarantees for promoting TCM development. Improving policies and mechanisms hinges on reform. The deepening reform of TCM should continue according to our established overall思路 and roadmap. First, deepen research on major theoretical and practical issues in TCM reform and development, propose a framework for the TCM policy system, and promote the construction of a policy system for TCM reform and development. Second, focus on establishing and effectively operating TCM work mechanisms, fully utilize the inter-departmental coordination mechanism for TCM work, effectively implement the detailed rules for the working relationship between commissions and bureaus, and establish closer working linkage mechanisms between bureaus and provinces. Third, deeply advance the construction of comprehensive TCM reform pilot zones. On one hand, strengthen supervision and guidance for the construction work of the existing five pilot zones, focus on themes, target efforts precisely, and quickly explore and summarize more replicable and operable reform outcomes for promotion. On the other hand, strengthen overall planning, select and cultivate new pilot zones, and expand the scope of pilots and new pilot content.
Key Words: Rule of Law Construction
With advancing law-based administration as the core
Fully promote the construction of a TCM legal system
"Deeply advance law-based administration and accelerate the building of a law-based government" is a major strategic deployment made by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee for comprehensively advancing the rule of law. Promoting law-based administration and fostering the construction of a TCM legal system is a systematic project, significant for advancing the modernization of TCM governance systems and capacity, requiring long-term and arduous efforts. First, focus on advancing the legislative process of the TCM law, propose a framework for TCM laws and regulations, and promote the construction of a TCM legal system. Second, focus on the comprehensive performance of government functions according to law, establish and improve a power list system, study the division of responsibilities between central and local governments regarding TCM work, and clarify the duties of governments at all levels. Third, focus on improving the law-based decision-making mechanism, further refine the rules, procedures, and responsibilities for major administrative decisions, and establish a legality review system for major decisions and normative documents. Fourth, focus on deepening the reform of the administrative law enforcement system, explore the establishment of a supervision mechanism for TCM health services, strengthen inspections of large TCM hospitals, and improve local TCM regulation, law enforcement, and service levels. Fifth, comprehensively advance government affairs transparency, comprehensively use various supervision methods and institutionalize them, and strengthen the restriction and supervision of power. Sixth, accelerate standardization and normalization construction, focus on strengthening management standard construction, and promote the transformation of domestic standards into international standards.
Key Words: Deepening Medical Reform
With deepening the reform of public TCM hospitals and enhancement projects as the focus
Fully promote TCM's greater role in medical reform
The current medical reform has entered a critical stage of deepening advancement. It is necessary to fully implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council regarding medical reform, relevant document spirits, and the planning requirements of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Public TCM hospitals hold an important and key position in the TCM service system. Deepening the reform of county-level and urban public TCM hospitals and actively participating in the deepening medical reform pilot programs in Jiangsu, Fujian, Anhui, and Qinghai provinces are important breakthroughs for promoting TCM's greater role in deepening medical reform. First, further improve incentive policies for the provision and utilization of TCM services through reforms in medical insurance payment, pricing, and performance evaluation. Second, further enhance the motivation of TCM personnel by promoting the establishment of a personnel and salary system suitable for the characteristics of the TCM industry. Third, further enrich TCM service resources by supporting private TCM practices and promoting multi-site practice for TCM physicians. Implement the National Medical and Health Service System Planning Outline to promote the rational layout and growth of TCM resources. Fourth, explore how TCM can better play a positive role in promoting the construction of a tiered diagnosis and treatment system, further promoting the division of labor and cooperation, capacity enhancement, feature highlighting, and coordinated development between primary healthcare service institutions and TCM hospitals. Fifth, on the basis of doing a good job in the TCM health management service projects within basic public health services, coordinate to expand the target coverage population and add TCM content to new national basic public health service projects. Sixth, enhance TCM service capacity, complete the summary work of the primary-level TCM service capacity enhancement project, fully achieve the four indicators, carry out clinical collaboration pilots for major and difficult diseases integrating Chinese and Western medicine, initiate the selection of national TCM medical centers and regional TCM medical centers, and establish and improve the supervision and evaluation system for TCM hospitals.
Key Words: Health Services
With the implementation of the TCM health service plan as the
Fully build a new TCM health service system
As China's economic development enters a new normal, it is necessary to actively discover and cultivate new growth points. Transform the resource advantages of TCM into industrial advantages, making it a backbone force in the development of China's health industry, meeting multi-level and diversified health service demands, and releasing huge economic potential. First, broaden the service areas, with a focus on establishing a grand health concept and promoting the construction of a grand health service system. Closely the implementation of the TCM health service plan, and on the basis of deeply implementing the TCM "preventive treatment" health project, promote the development of TCM health tourism, TCM health elderly care, and TCM service trade, and accelerate the construction of new formats for TCM health services. Second, innovate service models, with maintaining health as the goal and innovating medical service models as the breakthrough, firmly grasp the new normal of consumer demand, and explore the establishment of a new service model covering the entire life cycle and integrating health management and health services. Third, develop service products, do a good job in service project design, service technology development, and service product innovation, especially accelerate the research and development of diagnostic and therapeutic instruments and equipment with TCM characteristics, and improve the development level of the domestic medical and healthcare equipment industry. Fourth, build service brands, adhere to high, standardization, and emphasis on effectiveness, strengthen service supervision, create a number of well-known TCM health service brands, and promote the formation of industrial clusters.
Key Words: Talent Cultivation
With accelerating the education and teaching reform in TCM institutions as the breakthrough
Fully enhance the quality of TCM talent cultivation
In recent years, the contradiction between the supply and demand of TCM talents has not been fundamentally resolved. There is a shortage of personnel and skills, especially at the primary level and for some technical talents, a significant loss of TCM graduates, and issues such as unreasonable knowledge structures in TCM specialties, particularly clinical specialties, and unstable professional ideologies, which need to be accelerated. First, accelerate TCM education and teaching reform, coordinate with relevant departments as soon as possible to issue documents promoting TCM education and teaching reform, strengthen the cultivation of traditional cultural literacy and clinical practice ability, and promote the synergy between medicine and education to deepen clinical talent cultivation. Second, innovate the primary-level talent introduction system, encourage TCM professionals to serve at the primary level, create better working and living environments so that they can stay, be utilized, and better realize their value. Third, establish a TCM talent incentive mechanism, improve the national TCM master selection and commendation system, explore the establishment of an incentive mechanism that符合 the characteristics of the TCM industry, connects different levels, and combines government commendation and social recognition to promote the emergence of outstanding talents. Fourth, improve the TCM post-graduation education and continuing education systems, reform and improve the evaluation standards and assessment mechanisms for TCM practicing physicians, emphasize the advantages of master-apprentice education, focus on strengthening the training of basic TCM knowledge and skills, and highlight the evaluation of practical ability, work performance, and professional.
Key Words: Collaborative Innovation
With achieving innovation-driven development as the goal
Fully build a TCM collaborative innovation system
Technological innovation is the strategic support for improving social productivity and comprehensive national strength, and it is also the only way to drive TCM development. First, transform the government's science and technology management functions, accelerate the coordination of science and technology planning, projects, and plans, focus on solving the "fragmentation" problem, and allocate more government investment to basic frontier research, common key technology research, and scientific research platform construction. Second, adhere to the dual drive of institutional innovation and technological innovation, stimulate the innovation potential and creative vitality of TCM through institutional innovation, and promote product innovation, industrial organization innovation, and business model innovation through technological innovation. Third, accelerate the construction of a collaborative innovation mechanism with deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, optimize the layout of various TCM innovation bases and research forces, encourage deep cooperation between different entities such as universities, research institutions, medical institutions, enterprises, and financial institutions, and establish technological innovation alliances and regional characteristic industrial innovation clusters. Fourth, promote enterprises to become the main body of innovation, facilitate the establishment of a new mechanism where the market primarily determines technological innovation projects, R&D directions and route selection, outcome evaluation, and transmission and diffusion, encourage enterprises to establish technology R&D institutions, guide innovation factors to gather in enterprises, and accelerate the transfer and transformation of TCM scientific research achievements. Fifth, focus on solving major issues such as the sustainable development of TCM resources and key technologies in TCM production, promote the development of TCM health products, and strive to promote the coordinated development of TCM and Chinese medicine.
Key Words: Health Culture
With the implementation of the TCM health culture promotion action as the
Fully expand the mass base for TCM development
In today's world, the status and role of culture in comprehensive national power competition are becoming increasingly prominent, increasingly becoming an important source of national cohesion and creativity, and increasingly becoming important factors in comprehensive national power competition and important symbols of comprehensive national power. TCM is an outstanding representative of China's excellent traditional culture, and accelerating the inheritance and dissemination of TCM culture is of great significance. First, focus on creating an upgraded version of TCM science popularization and cultural promotion activities. On the basis of thoroughly summarizing the experience of the "TCM China Tour" activity and utilizing the activity brand well, carry out the TCM health culture promotion action to further promote TCM taking root in the daily lives of the broad masses. Second, deeply explore the cultural connotation of TCM, refine the core value concept of TCM, inherit and carry it forward结合时代 conditions, innovate, and endow it with new meanings. Third, improve TCM communication capabilities, promote the integrated development of TCM traditional media and new media, build a modern communication system, enrich communication methods, and innovate communication methods. Fourth, study and promote measures for excellent TCM culture and knowledge to enter schools and classrooms, allowing children to understand TCM from an early age and cultivate affection for TCM.
Key Words: Overseas Development
With serving the "Belt and Road" construction as the opportunity
Fully promote the overseas development of TCM
The "Belt and Road" construction is the general and new engine for the country's implementation of all-round opening up, and it is also a major opportunity for TCM to go global. First, do a good job in the overall planning for TCM overseas development, adhere to the correct view of righteousness and benefit, make reasonable layouts for different regions, formulate differentiated development strategies, optimize resource allocation, and leverage TCM's unique role in foreign trade, cultural exchanges, and serving diplomacy. Second, strengthen the overseas dissemination of TCM culture, target the psychology and acceptance habits of foreign audiences, strengthen the construction of content for segmented audiences, fully utilize platforms such as Confucius Institutes and overseas cultural centers, innovate communication methods, and tell the "TCM story" well. Third, promote the construction of a TCM external discourse system, fully utilize platforms such as the World Health Organization and the International Organization for Standardization, improve bilateral and multilateral exchange and cooperation mechanisms, actively participate in the formulation of relevant standards and norms, and play a better role in the international field of traditional medicine. Fourth, strengthen the capacity building for TCM external exchanges and cooperation, leverage the demonstration effect of key projects, cultivate a group of talents, nurture a number of brand enterprises, form a number of influential cooperation projects, explore the establishment of effective cooperation mechanisms, and promote the resolution of key issues affecting and restricting the overseas development of TCM.
Key Words: Conduct Construction
With consolidating the results of educational practice activities as the focus
Fully strengthen the conduct construction of the TCM industry
Conduct construction has no and is always. It is necessary to persevere with unremitting determination and perseverance to ensure that the requirements for conduct construction truly take root. First, consolidate and expand the results of educational practice activities, seriously implement the Central "Eight Regulations" and the "Three Stricts and Three Honests" requirements, continuously grasp the rectification and implementation of the "two plans and one plan," deeply carry out special rectifications, effectively strengthen the establishment of rules and regulations, and establish a long-term mechanism for conduct construction. Second, vigorously promote the professional spirit of the new era, establish a good industry ethos and image, guide the majority of TCM workers to take cultivating noble medical ethics and mastering excellent skills as their own responsibility, integrate loving their jobs, dedication, great medical sincerity, and sincere service into their code of conduct, and effectively implement the "Nine Prohibitions" requirements. Third, deeply carry out the "Five-Type Organization" creation activities, further innovate activity carriers, enrich activity content, and truly build TCM management departments at all levels into pragmatic, clean, and people-serving government organs. Fourth, improve and perfect the comprehensive research mechanism, conduct targeted research key areas and bottlenecks in TCM development, and promptly propose operable and implementable policy measures to make TCM reform and development decisions more "down-to-earth."
