Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 20th Title: Let the people use good Chinese medicine, the country has made new arrangements!

Xinhua News Agency reporter Tian Xiaohang

Let the people use good Chinese medicine, and the country makes new arrangements!

The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Opinions on Improving the Quality of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry", requiring the standardized planting and stable supply of commonly used Chinese medicinal materials based on improving the quality of traditional Chinese medicine and supporting scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and better enhance people's health and well-being and serve Chinese-style modernization.

From the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting the Inheritance and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine" to the "Several Policy Measures on Accelerating the Development of Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine", to the "Implementation Plan for Major Projects for the Revitalization and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine"... my country continues to issue important policy documents to promote the Inheritance and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A relevant responsible person from the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine introduced that this is the first time in recent years that the publication specifically makes systematic arrangements for the quality of traditional Chinese medicine and the traditional Chinese medicine industry. Starting from the key links of the entire industrial chain, "solving problems and promoting development" is of special significance.

The quality of traditional Chinese medicine is related to the lives and health of the people. From the fields to the bedside, a dose of Chinese medicine has been planted, harvested, processed, stored and transported, prepared and sold, with many links and long chains. The Chinese medicine industry accounts for more than one-fifth of the scale of my country's pharmaceutical industry. How to standardize development, strengthen muscles and bones, and let the people "use traditional Chinese medicine with confidence and use good Chinese medicine"?

——Precaution the "source barrier".

The medicinal materials are good, but the medicine is good. Traditional Chinese medicine resources are an important material basis for the development of traditional Chinese medicine and industry. Faced with more than 18,000 traditional Chinese medicine resources in my country, how to handle the relationship between protection and development and utilization?

Research and revise the "Regulations on the Protection and Management of Wild Medicinal Materials Resources", strengthen the on-site and ex-site protection of medicinal wild animal and plant species, and break through the breeding, bionic and alternative technologies of a number of rare Chinese medicine resources... In response to the contradiction of the increasing demand for Chinese medicine and the difficulty of artificial breeding of rare Chinese medicine resources, the document has launched a series of measures to ensure the sustainable development of Chinese medicine resources.

The planting density has not changed, but the soil fertility can be increased by 20% in some places. In some places, the application of ecological planting technology of Chinese medicinal materials provides an effective method to solve the problem of medicinal materials quality.

The document "fills into shortcomings" and "expands ideas" in terms of promoting ecological planting and breeding of Chinese medicinal materials and developing modern seed industry: promote the standardized planting of commonly used Chinese medicinal materials, rely on qualified forest farms to develop ecological planting, wild breeding, and imitation wild cultivation, and study and formulate management measures for seeds of Chinese medicinal materials... A series of practical measures to ensure the quality of Chinese medicine from the source.

——Cracking “fake, inferior, expensive”.

The "National Drug Sampling Annual Report (2023)" shows that the overall quality of Chinese herbal medicines in my country is good.

At the same time, there are still phenomena such as fakery and violent price fluctuations in the market of Chinese medicinal materials, which affect the efficacy and safety of Chinese medicine and increase the cost of medication.

Say "no" to the chaos in the circulation link! The document makes comprehensive arrangements: promote the construction of warehouses in the production area; increase the quality supervision of the sales of Chinese medicinal materials online and offline, resolutely investigate and punish illegal acts such as adulteration and fake counterfeiting, and fake counterfeiting; improve the price supervision mechanism of Chinese medicinal materials, severely crack down on illegal acts such as price gouging; guide enterprises to build a batch of reserve warehouses in the production areas of bulk Chinese medicinal materials...

Guo Lanping, director of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences, believes that this policy "combination punch" will help ensure the quality and safety of Chinese medicinal materials, maintain the stability of the market price of Chinese medicinal materials, and promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry.

——Improve the "full chain".

At present, my country's traditional Chinese medicine industry system is becoming increasingly perfect, but problems such as low industrial aggregation, slow development of digital and intelligentization, and insufficient brand influence are restricting the improvement of the industrial structure.

Accelerate transformation and upgrading! Continue to update the traditional Chinese medicine industry chain map, promote the digital and intelligent development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry, improve the traceability system of the entire industrial chain, strengthen the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine preparation technology, and cultivate well-known traditional Chinese medicine trademark brands... Yang Hongjun, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences, believes that the document proposes a series of measures in terms of optimizing the industrial structure layout, improving the quality of traditional Chinese medicine manufacturing, improving the variety of traditional Chinese medicine products, and creating traditional Chinese medicine brands, which will provide all-round and strong support for "making good medicines".

——Promote "use good medicine".

Prevent type 2 diabetes, improve the prognosis of myocardial infarction, solve the problem of recurrence after atrial fibrillation... In many fields of cardiovascular, metabolism, digestion, etc., traditional Chinese medicine clinical evaluation research has made continuous breakthroughs. How to "discover" and "promote" more good medicines to further leverage the clinical advantages of traditional Chinese medicine to benefit patients?

The document proposes to develop a large model for clinical efficacy evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine to promote the transformation of human experience into clinical evidence; build a comprehensive clinical evaluation index system and evaluation path of traditional Chinese patent medicines, improve clinical application guidelines and standards, and orderly promote the coordination and linkage of evaluation results with the adjustment of the national basic drug catalog and the national medical insurance catalog; optimize the centralized procurement and bidding and procurement policies of traditional Chinese medicine to achieve high-quality and high-price prices.

Let new drugs be launched faster and more standardized in the use of good medicines, and relevant measures have also been "arranged": focus on major chronic diseases, major and difficult diseases, new and sudden infectious diseases, special environmental diseases, etc., and launch a number of innovative Chinese medicine drugs with outstanding clinical efficacy and significant competitive advantages; encourage the application of children's drug research and development; continue to optimize the review and approval process, and further accelerate the launch of new Chinese medicine drugs...

Protect and make good use of precious Chinese medicine resources, create a group of skilled craftsmen in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, and stimulate the vitality of the traditional Chinese medicine industry... I believe that the implementation of the document will effectively promote the improvement of the quality of traditional Chinese medicine and the high-quality development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry, so that the "Chinese treasure" can make greater contributions to human health.