On November 18, the “Belt and Road” Traditional Chinese Medicine Development Forum was held in the Water Village Living Room of the Yangtze River Delta Integrated Development Demonstration Zone. This forum brings together government representatives, diplomats stationed in China, experts in the field of traditional Chinese medicine and business people from all over the world to discuss the cultural dissemination and innovative development paths of traditional Chinese medicine in the joint construction of the “Belt and Road Initiative”.

At the scene, participants conducted in-depth exchanges around the two major topics of "International Development and Collaboration of Time-honored Traditional Chinese Medicine Brands" and "Homology of Medicine and Food and Nutrition and Health". They called for using traditional Chinese medicine as a bridge to jointly build a national health community and promote the evidence-based, safe and standardized integration of acupuncture, herbal medicine, etc. into the primary health systems of various countries. Everyone agreed that traditional Chinese medicine, as a treasure of Chinese civilization, has increasingly become an important force in jointly building the "Health Silk Road" and promoting the construction of a human health community.

Traditional Chinese medicine is a living heritage of mutual learning among civilizations and provides a powerful supplement to the global health system. Qu Fenghong, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, proposed to use time-honored brands and medicinal and edible products as two wings to let the world perceive traditional Chinese medicine from the perspective of "eating healthy" through localized production; relying on 30 overseas centers and multilateral mechanisms, promote the integration of traditional Chinese medicine into more national public health systems and create public health products that are visible, accessible and sensible along the "One Belt and One Road".

Representatives of relevant countries advocated strengthening scientific research data sharing, joint experiments and personnel training under the "Belt and Road" framework to promote traditional medicine to meet modern safety standards. At the same time, we must respect local culture, protect biodiversity, and achieve people-centered, fair and sustainable international cooperation, so that traditional medicine can better benefit global public health.

As a time-honored brand of traditional Chinese medicine with a history of nearly 500 years, Guangyuyuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd. adheres to the development path of "keeping integrity and innovation", safeguards cultural roots with ancient techniques and skills, and creates a new benchmark for intangible inheritance; activates industrial momentum with classic famous prescriptions and forges a new engine for the development of traditional Chinese medicine; builds bridges of health with mutual learning among civilizations, bravely undertakes the new mission of disseminating Chinese wisdom, and demonstrates the contemporary value and international influence of traditional Chinese medicine.

"Our products have obtained production licenses from relevant countries and regions. We look forward to using evidence-based data to establish a 'universal language' for traditional Chinese medicine and inviting partners from all over the world to jointly build and share it," Su Yan, chairman of Zhejiang Sukoan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., revealed.

Li Yingjie, the intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Lei Yunshang Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., proposed three strategies of "keeping integrity, innovation, and long-term development": systematic archiving and apprenticeship system to quantitatively inherit the intangible cultural heritage processing skills; secondary development of classic famous recipes to achieve efficiency leaps with intelligent manufacturing; and jointly building an ecological chain of planting research and development market with "One Belt and One Road" countries to turn traditional medical wisdom into health solutions that the world can understand and use.

Mo Hui, director of the World Health Organization's Macau Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine, said that Macau's TCM services cover a wide range of areas, and the local government has built a full industry chain of "research and development-transformation-production", forming a TCM industry development pattern in which Macau oversees production and Hengqin produces. She believes that Macao is giving full play to the advantages of "one country, two systems" and internationalization, promoting the standardization and internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine through cooperation with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and international training, and is committed to building Macao into a demonstration window for traditional Chinese medicine to the world.

As a special conference of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Taihu World Cultural Forum, this forum provides an important communication platform to demonstrate the unique value of traditional Chinese medicine in promoting mutual learning among civilizations and improving people's health and well-being through various forms such as round-table dialogues, keynote speeches, and interactive exchanges.