Analysis of Policies on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in China in the “Healthy China” Context

This paper analyzes the policy texts of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in the "Healthy China" context, sorts out and explores the policy focus and the weak parts, summarizes the policy direction, and provides suggestions for better promoting the development of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in China. The policy of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine focuses on three main themes, i.e. clinical collaborative diagnosis and treatment, related institutional system construction, and public health, however, problems such as lack of top-level design, mismatch between talent demand and discipline construction capabilities, insufficient demand-oriented policy tools, imbalanced structure of environmental policy tools, and uneven use of policy tools among stakeholders still remain. It is suggested that future policies should attach importance to discipline construction and talent cultivation under the coordination of medical education, explore feasible methods to release policy goals and demands, and create a better economic development environment for the integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine.