Last year, Comrade ××× was instructed to summarize and inspect the work of traditional Chinese medicine. This year, it was discovered that there is resistance to traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine at the lower levels. Comrade ×× was instructed to achieve results in traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine within a specified time.

For several years, everything has been liberated, and opera performers have also been liberated, but traditional Chinese medicine has not yet been liberated. The health of China's 600 million people mainly relies on traditional Chinese medicine, not Western medicine, because the number of Western doctors is very small. Traditional Chinese medicine plays a significant role in people's health, but it is rarely reported to the leadership. The reason is that traditional Chinese medicine is ancient and unsophisticated, while Western medicine is in power. Chinese medicine has a long history, and history has proven that it has made great contributions to the people. Institutions should be established to study traditional Chinese medicine. If traditional Chinese medicine practitioners study Western medicine, it is said that traditional Chinese medicine is unscientific. It has its unscientific aspects, but it should not be criticized prematurely. They should be treated like ethnic minorities, and their representation should be included in various institutions. Looking down on traditional Chinese medicine is a slavish, comprador-like bourgeois ideology. It is wrong that no achievements have been made in recent years. ...

In the future, medical university graduates should study traditional Chinese medicine for two years.

It should be recognized that traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have abilities and should be regarded as experts, and they should be received and treated as experts because traditional Chinese medicine has made great contributions. Oppose sectarianism among traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and strengthen the research of Chinese medicine. (Speaking to He Cheng) Isn't there a Qizhou in Hebei? (He Cheng said: Yes.) That is a distribution center for Chinese herbal medicine, and the commercial departments must study it.