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2021-03-16
Lawmakers, advisers call for set of TCM standards
As intensified research into the mechanisms and effects of traditional Chinese medicines bears fruit, the next vital step in reinvigorating the sector is to establish a set of appraisal and approval standards tailored to TCM products, deputies to China's top legislature and political advisers said.
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2021-03-11
Focus on medical care for the elderly
The "Healthy China 2030" blueprint talks about providing medical care, including medical treatment in hospital and nursing services, for the elderly.
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2021-03-07
Political adviser highlights TCM's strength in building healthy China
Huang Luqi, a national political adviser and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) expert, believes TCM will play a more important role in the country's health system.
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2021-03-05
China to advance the building of Healthy China
China will comprehensively advance the building of Healthy China, holding people's health as a strategic priority, according to the draft outline of the 14th Five-Year-Plan (2021-2025).
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2021-03-01
New vaccine to 'provide 2-year protection'
An adenovirus vector vaccine against COVID-19 by CanSino Biologics is projected to provide protection for two years if a booster shot is administered, said a scientist who played a key role in the vaccine's development.
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2021-02-24
Hainan signs cooperation agreement on health and aging with INIA
On February 21, the Hainan Health Tourism Association (HHTA) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the International Institute on Ageing of the United Nations - Malta (INIA) on the fields of health and aging.
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2021-02-23
Virus fight will end only after universal vaccination
How to deal with the challenge to global public health and promote global cooperation in the fight against the novel coronavirus were high on the agenda of the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
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2021-01-16
Growing of seawater rice to be greatly expanded
A team of rice experts led by Yuan Longping, a leading agricultural scientist known as "the father of hybrid rice" in China, announced on Friday at an international forum on a saline-alkali tolerant type of rice called seawater rice that it has obtained 400,000 hectares of saline-alkali lands nationwide for producing and commercializing the rice this year.