As the original medical science of the Chinese nation, TCM is a knowledge about life wisdom and life art, which was called "the study of life" by the ancients.

Nanyang, Henan Province is the hometown of Zhang Zhongjing, the ancestral temple of traditional Chinese medicine, and one of the birthplaces of Chinese medicine civilization.

Pushing open the door of the medical shrine, the ancient monuments are listed, and the halls and pavilions are just like it. Among the green trees, there are statues of famous doctors such as Bian Que, Hua Tuo and Sun Simiao. The inscriptions, plaques, couplets and quaint buildings inscribed by many famous artists together constitute the unique Chinese medicine cultural heritage and humanistic landscape of the Medical Shrine.

General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has always been concerned about the development of traditional Chinese medicine.

On May 12, 2021, the General Secretary made an investigation in Nanyang City, Henan Province. He first came to the medical shrine to learn about Zhang Zhongjing’s life and his contribution to the development of Chinese medicine.

On May 12, 2021, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited the Medical Shrine, the memorial site of Zhang Zhongjing, a physician of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in Nanyang City, Henan Province.

"He carefully read Zhang Zhongjing’s prescription for treating febrile diseases, and he also watched an acupuncture pottery man in the Eastern Han Dynasty for a long time." Yang Lei, deputy director of Zhang Zhongjing Museum, recalled.

The culture of traditional Chinese medicine is extensive and profound, which contains the "holistic view" of harmony between man and nature, the "neutral view" of principle and leveling, and the "disease-free view" of health preservation and disease prevention. It is rooted in the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation and embodies the essence of Chinese culture, such as harmony between heaven and earth, harmony without difference, benevolence and love, and people-oriented.

When inspecting the medical shrine, the general secretary said: "In the past, the Chinese nation relied on traditional Chinese medicine to cure diseases and save lives for thousands of years. Especially after fighting against major infectious diseases such as COVID-19 epidemic and SARS, we have a deeper understanding of the role of Chinese medicine. "

As early as 2010, when attending the awarding ceremony of the Confucius Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the supreme leader once commented on traditional Chinese medicine from the perspective of civilization, which was "the treasure of ancient science in China and the key to opening the treasure house of Chinese civilization".

At the Jiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Valley Manufacturing Base, the General Secretary picked up medicines, health care products and foods, inquired about the quality and safety, market and price, and pointed out that "Chinese medicine is a treasure of the Chinese nation, and it must be well protected, excavated, developed and passed down".

In the Guangdong-Macao Cooperative Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Industrial Park in Hengqin New District, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, the general secretary walked into the workshop to inspect the production process of Chinese medicine products, and urged him to dig deep into the essence of Chinese medicine treasure house.

In the eyes of the general secretary, Chinese medicine is not only a precious legacy left by our ancestors, but also a valuable resource for the benefit of the people. The reason why he attaches importance to Chinese medicine is to make the "Qi Huang Shu" which has been passed down for thousands of years play a greater role in protecting the health of the whole people, and also to protect the cultural roots of the Chinese nation’s civilization for more than 5,000 years.

Keeping the fire of TCM and polishing the golden signboard of TCM, the general secretary has repeatedly "taken the pulse" for the development of TCM in the new era.

"We should not only make good use of modern evaluation methods, but also fully respect thousands of years’ experience, and explain clearly and clearly the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine". "We should pay attention to interpreting the principles of traditional Chinese medicine with modern science and take the road of combining traditional Chinese and western medicine" … … The general secretary’s guidance is full of dialectics of inheritance and innovation.

Without inheritance, innovation will lose its foundation; Without innovation, inheritance loses its value. With the empowerment of science and technology, today in the new era, the ancient Chinese medicine education has been renewed for a long time.

On May 6, 2024, in the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Pavilion" in the clinic of Taobei Village, Chengnan Street, Rugao City, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, local villagers were receiving traditional Chinese medicine treatments such as moxibustion and massage.

A traditional Chinese medicine, a pulse pillow, a needle, listening, asking questions, cupping and acupuncture are people’s traditional impressions of traditional Chinese medicine. Nowadays, the ancient Chinese medicine has been deeply integrated with the new technology, which not only leads to the "cloud", but also realizes the intelligent manufacturing of pills and powders.

Since the new era, the field of traditional Chinese medicine has won more than 50 national scientific and technological awards, and the scientific and technological innovation of traditional Chinese medicine has changed with each passing day.

Talent is the first resource for the development of traditional Chinese medicine. With regard to the cultivation of TCM talents, the General Secretary stressed that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of TCM-specific talents and build a high-level national TCM disease prevention and control team.

In October 2015, Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In less than three months, the General Secretary mentioned Tu Youyou in a signed article published in Vietnamese People’s Daily, a congratulatory letter to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a 2016 New Year message.

He praised "generations of Chinese medicine talents represented by researcher Tu Youyou, who have worked hard and made great contributions to the development of Chinese medicine and the benefit of human health".

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the state has successively organized and implemented the project of inheriting and innovating talents of traditional Chinese medicine and the project of "100 million talents" of inheriting and innovating traditional Chinese medicine (Qihuang Project), so as to build an organic connection between college education, post-graduation education and continuing education, and a system of cultivating talents of traditional Chinese medicine with mentoring education throughout.

Since the implementation of Qihuang Project, as of June 2022, China has selected and trained 149 Qihuang scholars, 100 young Qihuang scholars, 797 outstanding clinical talents of traditional Chinese medicine and more than 10,000 backbone talents of traditional Chinese medicine … … A team of Chinese medicine talents composed of Chinese medicine masters, famous Chinese medicine practitioners at all levels, backbone Chinese medicine practitioners is growing day by day.

On April 19, 2023, medical workers from Qinhuangdao Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hebei Province explained the knowledge of meridians of traditional Chinese medicine to foreign students of Yanshan University.

Chinese medicine is not only from China, but also from the world. At present, Chinese medicine has spread to 196 countries and regions in the world, and 30 overseas Chinese medicine centers have been built in countries that have jointly built the "Belt and Road". The number of people who have received treatment related to traditional Chinese medicine in the world has exceeded one-third of the world’s total population.

A global survey of China’s national image shows that Chinese medicine has surpassed martial arts and diet and become the most representative "China element".

From the "Chinese treasure" to the recipe for saving the world, traditional Chinese medicine inherits thousands of years of wisdom and is deeply rooted.