Conference on modernization of traditional medicine

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 ◆ Conference on modernization of traditional medicine

The 2002 International Conference on the Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) will be held from November 3 to 5 in this capital city of Southwest China's Sichuan Province.

It will be the highest-level international conference on TCM ever held after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, according to the conference's organizing committee.

The conference is sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health, the State Drug Administration, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Sichuan provincial government.

It will draw participants from governments, international organizations, research institutes, universities and pharmaceutical factories from countries and regions concerned.

It will be held concurrently with the Exhibition on New Technologies and Products of TCM.

The exhibition will showcase the latest research achievements of TCM.

The exhibition, with an area of 35,000 square metres, is expected to draw 1,500 exhibitioners and 80,000 visitors, said Yang Guo'an, director-general of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology.

Sichuan, hailed as the "home to TCM," is China's largest producer of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs. It boasts of more than 5,000 kinds of traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, accounting for 75 per cent of the country's total.