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"This is an important step taken by traditional Chinese medicine to help Cambodia fight the epidemic. It will further strengthen the anti-epidemic cooperation between China and Cambodia, and help build a China-Cambodia community with a shared future and a community of human health and health." Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, deputy of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Huang Luqi, director and president of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, was interviewed by a reporter from China News Agency in early June, talking about the Chinese government's dispatch of a Chinese medicine anti-epidemic medical team to Cambodia.

Huang Luqi said that the prevention and control of infectious diseases has no borders, and the governments of China and Cambodia are watching and helping each other to jointly deal with the new crown epidemic that affects the world. During this process, Chinese medicine has been widely recognized in Cambodia, and Cambodian Minister of Health Man Benheng praised Chinese medicine as "a must at home and carry with you". The cooperation between China and Cambodia to fight the epidemic is conducive to consolidating and developing the traditional friendship between the people of China and Cambodia.

In order to implement the results of the meeting between the leaders of China and Cambodia, in January this year, China and Cambodia signed the "Agreement between the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of China and the Ministry of Health of Cambodia on Dispatching Chinese Medicine Anti-epidemic Medical Teams to Work in Cambodia". Cambodia dispatched a Chinese medicine anti-epidemic medical team. This is also the first TCM medical team sent abroad by China at the national level. Huang Luqi said that the team aims to promote global solidarity in fighting the epidemic and "going out" of traditional Chinese medicine. Through medical treatment, scientific research, and talent training, the team will play the role of traditional Chinese medicine and help Cambodia's epidemic prevention and control work.

According to reports, in this aid to Cambodia, the Chinese side has clarified the three-step working mechanism of "advance team-short-term expert team-long-term medical team" in an orderly manner. March to May is the mission period of the Chinese-Cambodia TCM Anti-epidemic Expert Group. During the aid to Cambodia, the expert team created the first inter-governmental TCM clinic in a Cambodian public hospital, the TCM Department of Kosma China-Cambodia Friendship Hospital. In two months, the number of TCM clinics exceeded 2,000, including many senior Cambodian government officials and members of the royal family. . In addition, the expert group also provided more than 1,000 free clinics for local overseas Chinese and employees of Chinese-funded enterprises in Cambodia.

"Judging from these data, the TCM anti-epidemic expert group has stood up well and opened up the situation. As far as I know, at the beginning of the opening of the TCM clinic, Chinese patients accounted for 90%, and as the work progressed, word of mouth spread among patients. By the end of the term of the expert group, the proportion of local patients has gradually increased. Years of stubborn diseases have been relieved and cured in the TCM clinic. The good curative effect has become a shining business card of the TCM clinic. ' role." Huang Luqi said.

Huang Luqi said that with the gradual increase of specialist consultations, the TCM expert group has conducted business exchanges with Cambodian respiratory, neurology, cardiovascular, acute and intensive care and other specialists around related diseases, and the wards of relevant departments have gradually begun to accept the treatment plan of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. , laying a good academic foundation for further joint research between the two countries.

Huang Luqi said that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of artemisinin by Tu Youyou's team. Artemisinin has saved the lives of millions of people around the world, especially in developing countries. It is also a successful case of Chinese medicine going global. From the experience of artemisinin and this aid to Cambodia, we have some inspirations for Chinese medicine to “go global”: firstly, it must be internationally recognized in academia; secondly, it is necessary to conduct clinical research in the front line; thirdly, provide assistance and support Fourth, strengthen organizational management and establish a cooperation system; fifth, comply with international standards and integrate into the normative system; sixth, explore the establishment of cooperation models and deepen international promotion.

At present, the work of the Chinese-Aid Cambodian TCM Anti-epidemic Expert Group has been successfully completed, and it has shifted to the stage of the Chinese-Cambodia TCM Anti-epidemic Medical Team. Huang Luqi pointed out that the task of the next stage should be anchored in the goal of benefiting the people of China and Cambodia, realize the continuous opening of TCM clinics, stabilize the good situation that has been opened, and further explore the work model of TCM foreign aid, from foreign aid goals, basic conditions, Practice and theoretical exploration in various aspects such as team formation, laying the foundation for Chinese medicine foreign aid medical work in the new era.