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Article: Future of traditional Chinese medicine is bright: Vice Premier
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 25, 2008
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Future of traditional Chinese medicine is bright: Vice Premier
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The traditional Chinese medicine
(TCM) has broad prospects and huge potentials in its development,
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi said here on Thursday.
Wu made the remarks at the 2008 National Conference on the TCM
Work. "I'm very confident of the development of traditional Chinese
medicine," she said.
According to the official, China has 3,072 TCM hospitals with
over 330,000 beds, while most of general hospitals in the country
have opened TCM departments.
China now has 1,500 TCM companies, manufacturing more than 9,000
kinds of Chinese medicine products.
The vice premier has been widely known as ...