Recently, the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Office of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine jointly issued a document to announce the list of the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and Innovation Center Project Repository. Two affiliated hospitals of NJUCM were selected into the list, respectively Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, and Jiangsu Province Hospital on Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine (also known as Jiangsu Province Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine).
The National Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and Innovation Center Project is a major project organized by the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Relying on TCM medical institutions and scientific research institutes, the project aims to build a high-level TCM inheritance protection and scientific and technological innovation system, build 30 national TCM inheritance and innovation centers and 16 national traditional Chinese medicine inheritance and innovation cultivation institutions, and comprehensively enhance the characteristics and advantages of traditional Chinese medicine and the service capabilities to meet the needs of people for traditional Chinese medicine.