Vice Minister of Health Wang Guoqiang: Chinese ** cannot take the Western Way

How to evaluate China's medical security system?

“The coverage of medical security in our country has reached more than 95%. China’s medical security system cannot copy the West. We must establish a medical security system with equal emphasis on Chinese and Western medicine and Chinese characteristics for the government to bear, the masses can afford, and the financial sustainability guarantee.”

-- Vice Minister of Health Wang Guoqiang

On November 11, the representatives of the 18th National Congress, the Deputy Minister of Health, and the Director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wang Guoqiang, received a collective interview with reporters at the Press Center of the 18th Party Congress and answered questions from reporters on the medical and health issues.

Integrate Chinese medicine with special features into health insurance projects

Wang Guoqiang said that the coverage of medical insurance in China has reached more than 95%. He said that there are policy obstacles affecting the use of Chinese medicine in the reimbursement of medical insurance. The items with Chinese medicine characteristics will be gradually incorporated into the medical insurance program. He believes that China's medical security system cannot copy the West, and it is necessary to establish a medical security system with equal emphasis on Chinese and Western medicine and with Chinese characteristics that the government can afford, the masses can afford, and the financial sustainability guarantee.

Select 16 diseases with comparative advantages in Chinese medicine, establish clinical research bases, and compile classics of Chinese Medicine

Wang Guoqiang said that Chinese medicine is an original intellectual property of China, which provides tremendous room for innovation in the treatment of diseases and the creation of new drugs. Artemisinin is a representative developed from traditional Chinese medicine classics. In order to fully explore the original information contained in Chinese medicine, China is collecting and collating ancient Chinese medicine books and compiling Chinese medicine classics. Wang Guoqiang said that in order to promote the innovative development of Chinese medicine, 16 kinds of diseases with comparative advantages in Chinese medicine have been selected, 16 clinical research bases have been established, and the main role of innovation in clinical hospitals has been given full play.

Chinese medicine has been extended to more than 160 countries and regions

The EU can not regard medicine as a western medicine tube

When answering a question from a European journalist, Wang Guoqiang said that the registration of Chinese medicine in the European Union has encountered many obstacles. The main reason lies in the differences between Eastern culture and Western culture, which leads to the low recognition of Western medicine for Chinese medicine. Wang Guoqiang said that the mechanism of action of traditional Chinese medicine is different from Western medicine. Chinese medicine is a compound, multi-target synergy. The European Union cannot regard medicine as a Western medicine tube. The registration of Chinese medicine is more complicated, especially related to the active ingredients, mechanism of action, and efficacy evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine. Wang Guoqiang proposed that domestic enterprises should improve the quality of medicines, change drug dosage forms, and raise standards. He said that Chinese medicine has been promoted to more than 160 countries and regions in the world.