109 Chinese medicine group standards released, Chinese medicine ushered in the era of standardization

　　On November 26, under the leadership of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, together with the Chinese Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, the Chinese Acupuncture Society, the Chinese Society of Ethnic Medicine and the Chinese Medicinal Diet Research Association, released 109 Chinese medicine group standards in Beijing, including 32 standards including the "General Principles for the Preparation of Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Diseases in Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Technical Specifications for Infrared Thermal Imaging" issued by the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine; 37 standards including the "Quantitative General Principles", "Technical Specifications for Investigation of Medicinal Plant Resources", and "Specifications for Machine Decoction of Traditional Chinese Medicine"; 9 evidence-based acupuncture clinical practices including the "Evidence-Based Acupuncture Clinical Practice Guidelines - Cervical Spondylotic Radiculopathy" issued by the Chinese Acupuncture Society Guidelines; the first batch of 14 Uyghur medical clinical technical standards "Vitiligo (Vitiligo) Uyghur Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines" released by the Chinese Society of Ethnomedicine; technical guidelines for 17 commonly used characteristic medicated diet varieties released this time by the Chinese Medicinal Diet Research Association, etc. The release of 109 TCM group standards is of great significance for standardizing the clinical diagnosis and treatment, basic terminology and evaluation methods of TCM.

　　Sang Binsheng, deputy director of the Policy, Regulations and Supervision Department of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine is a basic, strategic and overall work for the development of traditional Chinese medicine. With the comprehensive advancement and continuous development of traditional Chinese medicine standardization work, the technical support and leading role of traditional Chinese medicine standardization in the development of traditional Chinese medicine have become increasingly prominent, becoming a useful tool for promoting inheritance and innovation and promoting academic progress. It has become an important carrier to maintain and develop unique advantages, an important means to standardize industry management and strengthen government management, a basic basis for improving service quality and safety, an important way to promote the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, an important form of promotion and dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine results, and a strategic measure to enhance comprehensive competitiveness and promote the international dissemination and development of traditional Chinese medicine.

　　Yang Zeshi, director of the Service Industry Standards Department of the National Standards Committee, said: The "Notice of the State Council on Issuing the Reform Plan for Deepening Standardization Work" [Guofa [2015] No. 13] issued on March 11 this year proposed the cultivation and development of group standards for the first time. In terms of standard-setting entities, social organizations such as societies, associations, chambers of commerce, federations and industrial technology alliances with corresponding capabilities are encouraged to coordinate with relevant market entities to jointly formulate standards that meet market and innovation needs for the market to voluntarily choose and increase the effective supply of standards. “The 109 traditional Chinese medicine group standards released this time are not only an important measure for the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine to implement the reform plan of the State Council, but also an important manifestation of various societies and associations taking over government functions. They are of great significance for improving the traditional Chinese medicine technical standard system, further encouraging traditional Chinese medicine technological innovation, solving the problem of lack of traditional Chinese medicine standards, increasing the effective supply of standards, and promoting the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine. The standardization of traditional Chinese medicine groups is an important part of strengthening the construction of the connotation of traditional Chinese medicine. We believe that only by reproducing traditional Chinese medicine theory and medical technology in a standardized and standardized form can traditional Chinese medicine be more widely integrated with modern science, achieve modernization faster, and truly go global. ”

　　“Acupuncture, like traditional Chinese medicine, has a history of thousands of years. It is a historical mission to solidify and display the experience and wisdom of our predecessors in a standard form, and it is also an important task that we today's acupuncturists should accomplish well. Especially in the current situation where acupuncture is adjusting its medical purpose, changing medical models, and deepening medical reform, acupuncture has received more and more attention and support. How to regulate our behavior through standards to ensure clinical quality and reduce some clinical adverse reactions is a very important task for us to formulate this standard. ”Liu Baoyan, President of the Chinese Acupuncture Society, said.

　　At present, acupuncture is not only Chinese, but has openly gone to the world. According to survey data conducted by the World Federation of Acupuncture Societies, more than 180 countries are currently using acupuncture. In the United States, more than 30 of the more than 1,500 guidelines for Western medicine include acupuncture. “Under such a situation, as the birthplace of acupuncture, China's formulation of its own guidelines and standards has indeed become very urgent. We are under increasing pressure, and we cannot let others take the lead in formulating our acupuncture rules. ”Liu Baoyan said.

　　Standardization is an effective means that can promote the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and modern science, truly go global, and promote the inheritance and development. “In terms of cultivating and developing group standards for traditional Chinese medicine, we encourage the formulation of group standards that do not have national standards or industry standards, and we also encourage group standards that are higher than national standards and industry standards. Group standards should promptly absorb the achievements of scientific and technological innovation in traditional Chinese medicine, promote the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, and enhance the core competitiveness of traditional Chinese medicine industry enterprises. We also encourage the management departments of the traditional Chinese medicine industry to explore the use of group standards in administrative management, industrial policy, government procurement, conformity assessment, certification and accreditation, inspection and testing, and to use group standards through government purchase of services. If the group standards are good, we are also studying a mechanism to see how to upgrade them to national standards. ”Yang Zeshi said.

　　Jiang Lipin, a member of the National International Advisory Committee for Standardization of Traditional Chinese Medicine, believes that in terms of standardization strategy, Chinese companies must participate in the formulation of international standards so that they can have a say in international trade in the future. Jiang Lipin, who has been engaged in the standardization work of traditional Chinese medicine for many years, has a deep feeling, "The standard setting principle of the U.S. government is to first seize international standards, and then turn international standards into national standards and other domestic standards. Other countries, including ours, used to make products first and then enterprise standards. Everyone keeps doing it. In fact, the competitive gap between us and others is getting wider and wider." ”

　　On November 6, the Central Secretariat of the International Standards Organization (ISO) informed that the international standard "Chinese Medicine Decoction Machine" (ISO 18665:2015) was officially published. This is the second international standard in the field of traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic and treatment equipment and the fourth international standard released in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. Jiang Lipin is the project leader of the standard. He told China Youth Daily·China Youth Online reporter that it took six years from the submission of the draft international standard "Chinese Medicine Decoction Machine" to ISO in 2009 to the publication of the standard. “my country's herb decoction machines account for 50% of the world's sales. On this basis, we have taken the lead in the international standard for herb decoction machines. The promulgation and implementation of this standard allows China's herb decoction machines to be marked with the ISO logo for free, while similar products in other countries must undergo ISO approval. This is what standards are really about. First-rate companies make standards, second-rate companies make brands, and third-rate companies make products. We should not just limit ourselves to the formulation of group standards and be satisfied with group standards. We also hope that more people of insight will turn our group standards into international standards. In the future, China will go global and compete with developed countries. In fact, it will end up in the competition with international standards. ”At the same time, Jiang Lipin's team proposed a second international standard proposal to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - "International Standard for Operational Specifications of Traditional Chinese Medicine Decoction Machines". This proposal has also been included in the 2015 ISO development plan.