Have released the advance quality of traditional Chinese medicine into the build "area" development plan (2021-2025) is put forward to strengthen and regional strategic synergy and docking, including traditional Chinese medicine, Hong Kong and Macao to carry out large bay highland construction, support hengqin way depth zone development of traditional Chinese medicine, TCM field to achieve higher levels of opening to the outside world. Optimizing the development path of science and technology industrial park and establishing a platform for pharmaceutical innovation R&D and transformation with independent intellectual property rights and Chinese characteristics will become the focus of future policies. The 14th Five-Year Plan for the development of TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine (TCM), recently released by Guangdong Province, also puts forward specific contents for the opening-up and internationalization of TCM.

Economic Information Daily noted that in recent years, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has been actively exploring the integrated development of TCM standards among the three regions to promote the flow and connectivity of TCM personnel, products, standards and capital. Less than two years after the previous "TCM Highland Construction Plan of The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (2020-2025)" was issued, TCM in the Greater Bay Area has received a boost from the policy. Industry insiders are optimistic about relevant opportunities and look forward to enhancing the international influence of TCM industry by relying on the policy advantages of the Greater Bay Area.

The Greater Bay Area will become an international hub of TCM

Guangdong is promoting a new round of building itself into a strong province of TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine and a leading area of traditional Chinese medicine in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In January this year, the 14th Five-year Plan for the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangdong Province was released, proposing to vigorously develop the health industry of traditional Chinese medicine and promote the opening and development of traditional Chinese medicine.

In recent years, the annual output value of Traditional Chinese medicine industry in Guangdong has exceeded 60 billion yuan, and the scale of traditional Chinese medicine consumption market ranks first in China. According to the "14th Five-year Plan" for the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangdong province, Guangdong has a number of large varieties of Traditional Chinese medicine, such as Thirst-relieving pills, waist-strengthening and kidney strengthening pills, kidness-nourishing and foetus-nourishing pills, etc. Huatuo Zaizao Pills have been in the forefront of the export of Proprietary Chinese medicine in China for many consecutive years. Mebo MeBO has become an internationally recognized drug with Chinese property rights. There are nearly 50 TCM hospitals providing elderly care services, and 21 nursing institutions featuring TCM health care. We will build 40 TCM tourism bases and 12 routes, and promote the integrated and innovative development of TCM health services, tourism, and the Internet.

According to the "14th Five-year Plan of TCM Development in Guangdong Province", Guangdong will vigorously develop TCM health industry, including strengthening research and development of TCM new drugs, selecting TCM varieties facing internationalization, carrying out registration and sales in the international market, and giving priority to promoting the export of single component TCM and TCM medical equipment. To promote guangdong artemisinin compound drugs to the world, encourage traditional Chinese medicine institutions to implement the "Belt and Road" initiative, encourage traditional Chinese medicine enterprises to actively explore the international market, and promote Guangdong traditional Chinese medicine brands to the world.

At the same time, Guangdong will promote the opening and development of TCM, including three aspects. First, we will develop trade in TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine services. We will give full play to the exemplary role of the first batch of state-level backbone enterprises (institutions) and the first batch of state-level export bases for traditional Chinese medicine services, explore new business models for the export of traditional Chinese medicine services, and build a group of world-renowned brands of traditional Chinese medicine services.

Second, the TCM Highland Construction project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will support the integration of superior resources in the Greater Bay Area and the development of an international TCM medical pioneer zone. To establish a multidisciplinary scientific research platform centering on major scientific issues of TCM; Relying on well-known TCM colleges and universities in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, to establish a collaborative training mechanism for TCM talents, and jointly train a number of high-level TCM clinical talents, innovative leading talents with multi-disciplines and international compound talents. We will support Hong Kong in establishing its first traditional Chinese medicine hospital and continue to advance the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation Traditional Chinese Medicine science and technology Industrial park.

Third, we will strengthen the development of TCM international centers and bases, promote the overseas development of TCM in countries along the Belt and Road, and support TCM medical institutions, enterprises and social organizations to carry out various forms of TCM cultural dissemination activities overseas.

Held in January this year the health development of guangdong province "difference" press conference, planning bureau, deputy director of Chinese medicine in guangdong province wen-jie jin, during the period of "difference", guangdong will also focus on traditional Chinese medicine service mode, management mode, support tilt policy, industry development, cultural construction, explore innovation of quality supervision, etc.

The integrated development of TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao is embracing opportunities

It is proposed in the Belt and Road Development Plan (2021-2025) to further leverage the unique advantages of Hong Kong and Macao in jointly building the Belt and Road and promote the development of TCM. Journalists have noted that in recent years, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has actively explored the integrated development of traditional Chinese medicine standards among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to promote the flow and connectivity of traditional Chinese medicine personnel, products, standards and capital.

At present, Guangdong has carried out a pilot project to recruit Hong Kong and Macao Traditional Chinese medicine doctors for public medical institutions in mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area, and simplified the registration process of traditional Chinese patent medicines for external use that have been listed in Hong Kong and Macao.

On August 30, 2021, Guangdong launched a pilot program to recruit Hong Kong and Macao TCM doctors in public medical institutions, and 12 registered TCM doctors from Hong Kong and Macao were recruited in The first batch in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. The recruitment is open to registered Chinese medicine practitioners from Hong Kong and Macao. The applicants are required to be permanent residents of Hong Kong and Macao, who are allowed to practice medicine in the Mainland under the framework of closer Economic Partnership Arrangement between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao (CEPA) and hold valid practicing certificates.