From October 14 to 15, on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of NJUCM, the 2022 International Jingfang Conference was held online and offline in Nanjing, hosted by NJUCM and the affiliated hospital of NJUCM (Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine), with Wu Yiling, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, giving the keynote report online, and Tong Xiaolin, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, sending a video message to the Conference. Cheng Chun, Secretary of Party Committee of NJUCM, Jin Ercheng, former Deputy Director of Personnel and Education Department of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhu Min, Deputy Director of Jiangsu Commission of Health, Fang Zhuyuan, Vice President of NJUCM and Secretary of Party Committee of the affiliated hospital, and Huang Yabo, Director and Secretary of Jiangsu Research Center for Chinese Medicine Development, attended the conference and delivered speeches. The opening ceremony was hosted by Vice President Qiao Xuebin.
As a global academic event of Jingfang, this conference was themed Jingfang and Human Health, with 150 scholars from 13 countries including China, USA, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. giving online and offline academic reports and special lectures.
Cheng Chun, Tong Xiaolin, Jin Ercheng, Zhu Min, Fang Zhuyuan, Huang Yabo and Huang Huang delivered speeches. Qiao Xuebin hosted the opening ceremony.
Prof. Wu Yiling, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Prof. Liu Shenlin, National Famous Chinese Medicine Practitioner, gave keynote reports.
The conference has set up five sessions of “Jingfang and the Future”, “Jingfang and Specialties”, “Jingfang at the Grassroots”, “Jingfang and Classical Wards”, and “Jingfang and Life”. Many experts and scholars from home and abroad conducted wonderful discussions on the topics of literature, classical theories, modern research methods, evidence-based research, internationalization path, clinical specialty features, promotion and application at the grassroots level, construction of classical wards, and popularization of Jinfang.
Chinese medicine is rooted in the Chinese land, and Jingfang is the original creation of the Chinese nation, embodying thousands of years of experience in the use of natural medicines, which is also the valuable wealth of all human beings. Taking this conference as an opportunity, TCM practitioners will further give full play to the advantages of Jingfang, strive to tell the Jingfang story to the world, contribute Chinese wisdom and TCM solutions to the inheritance, utilization and development of TCM, and contribute to the construction of a community of common health for mankind.
Group photo of the Conference
More than 100 delegates from the university, the affiliated hospital and various medical institutions in Nanjing attended the offline conference, and 30,035 Chinese medicine practitioners, acupuncturists, Jingfang researchers and fans from 29 countries around the world registered for the conference online. Simon Becker, Co-Chairman of the ASA TCM Congress Switzerland, Wu Jiasheng, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Lin Yuanquan, President of Taipei Chinese Medical Association, addressed the conference via video. The conference was broadcast live in English and Chinese for the whole world. As of 9:00 a.m. on October 16, the total number of views of the live stream reached 114,774.