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In the National Outline of Long-Term Plan for Human Resource Development
(2010-2020) proposed that cultivate scarce and urgently needed special personnels
in economic and social development areas, and support programs for outlying
poverty-stricken areas, national boarder areas and old revolutionary base areas.
State Administration of TCM listed the DAI medicine as key discipline in 2009, the
affiliated hospital of Dai medicine of Yunnan University of TCM chosen to be the first
group of key national medicine hospital supported by the state. And more financial
support has been invested to improve the service of Dai medicine hospital.
The Twelfth Five-Year Plan of Yunnan proposed to accelerate the
development of national education, improve the basic education, secondary
vocational education and higher education in ethnic minority areas, and cultivate
scarce and urgently needed personnel in key areas and personnel of ethnic
minorities.
Yunnan Provincial Bureau of Health together with other 9 bureaus in Yunnan
province jointly formulated the Implementation Opinions on Strengthening the
Development of Nationality Medicine in Yunnan in 2009, which demand that ethnic
group autonomous country should set up 1 nationality medicine hospital, more than
60% township health centers should establish nationality medicine section or
department with at least 1 national medical doctor. If there is no independent
national medical institution in the county, a nationality medicine section or
department should be set up in the TCM hospital or the comprehensive hospital of
the county. A nationality medicine section or department should be established in
community health service center in minority areas. More than 50% of the village
health room should equip with at least 1 rural doctor who can provide national
medical diagnosis and treatment service.
Yunnan provincial government put forward the Implementation Opinions on
Supporting and Promoting the Development of TCM in 2010, it emphasized that
supporting the development of nationality medicine with great efforts, accelerating
the cultivation of nationality medicine personnel, creating conditions for cultivation a
group of high level and special personnel specializing in Dai medicine and Yi
medicine, and cultivating urgently needed nationality medicine personnel in various
ways. Focused on the establishment of special treatment to special disease, the
diagnosis and treatment standard and technical norms of nationality medicine. In
addition, improving the service of national medicine hospital and meeting the needs
of local people.
Yunnan nationality medicine is the perfect combination of natural and human,
it is a valuable wealth of Yunnan, an important component of Chinese culture. We
will continue to strengthen the inheritance and development of the national medicine
to keep it moving forward.