Frantisek Musil, a Czech doctor who helps spread TCM to the world

The spread of Chinese national quintessence

Thanks to China’s reform and opening up, from the establishment of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1988, to the issue of the first exclusive document for TCM exchanges (“The Ten-Year Plan for Foreign Exchanges and Cooperation of TCM”), policies regarding the international communication of TCM culture have come into being from nothing, and exchanges and cooperation have been increasingly flourishing. In recent years, the Belt and Road Initiative has availed TCM of new opportunities for development. That was how the China-Czech TCM Center, as the first medical cooperation project under the Belt and Road Initiative, came into being.

(Dr. Musil and his Chinese colleague pose for a photo on the opening day of the TCM Center)

Since its official opening in September 2015, there have been two Chinese physicians each day at the Center receiving patients. Each doctor receives nearly 30 outpatients on average. Besides treating patients, Chinese doctors from Shanghai Shuguang Hospital also make efforts to organize various activities to popularize Chinese TCM culture and regimen among the local people.

Serving as a tie connecting China and the Czech Republic, TCM, as Dr. Musil put it, has connected the two peoples in a very easy way.

According to Guan Xin, chief Chinese physician at the China-Czech TCM Center, since China launched the policy of reform and opening up in 1978, the pace of spreading TCM culture to the world has not stopped. As statistics show, Chinese medicine has spread to 183 countries and regions, and there are about 300,000 overseas TCM practitioners.