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         SUBJ: TRADITIONAL CHINEE MEDICINE MAKES PROGRESS
         SOURCE: BEIJING XINHUA IN ENGLISH 0131 GMT 1 JAN 91
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              //(("ROUND-UP: TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE MAKES HEADWAY OVER
         PAST FIVE YEARS" -- XINHUA HEADLINE))
              ((TEXT)) BEIJING, JANUARY 1 (XINHUA) -- OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS
         RESEARCfr AND CLINICAL APPLICATION OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
         HAVE SEEN A "GOLDEN AGE" OF PROGRESS.
              SOURCES AT THE STATE ADMINISTRATION OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE
         MEDICINE TOLD XINHUA HERE TODAY THAT THE TASKS SET FOR WORKERS IN
         THIS FIELD DURING THE SEVENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN PERIOD (1986-1990) HAVE
         ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED.
              INSTITUTES OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, NUMBERING 170
         NATIONWIDE, HAVE ACHIEVED PROGRESS IN STUDYING AND CURING VARIOUS
         TYPES OF DISEASES, ESPECIALLY ANGIOCARDIOPATHY, MALIGNANT TUMORS AND
         BURNS.
              SINCE 1986 THE TREATMENT OF MALARIA BY ACUPUNCTURE ANESTHESIA, AS
         WELL AS ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION. BONESETTING, AND MASSAGING HAVE
         ALL MADE RAPID PROGRESS AND EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO TREAT AIDS
         WITH TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE.
              BY THE END OF 1990 THERE WERE 2.1.70 HOSPITALS OF TRADITIONAL
         CHINESE MEDICINE, OF WHICH 1,456 ARE AT COUNTY LEVEL. THERE IS A
         HOSPITAL OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE IN EVERY COUNTY-IN 20 OF
         CHINA'S PROVINCES AND MUNICIPALITIES, THE SOURCES SAID.
              THERE ARE 196,000 BEDS IN THESE HOSPITALS, 66,ooo MORE THAN THERE
         WERE IN 1985. THE NUMBER OF DOCTORS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
         IN CHINA IS 560,000 AT PRESENT, ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES.
         CHINA NOW HAS 32 INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING TEACHING
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  TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, AND DURING THE SEVENTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN
  PERIOD A TOTAL OF 24,000 STUDENTS GRADUATED.
       THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE TRADE OF TRADITIONAL
  CHINESE MEDICINE IS 460.000 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. FROM 1986 TO 1990
  THE TOTAL EXPORT VALUE OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINES REACHED 1.3
  BILLION U.S. DOLLARS-WORTH. IN 1990 THE OUTPUT OF TRADITIONAL
  CHINESE MEDICINE WAS 190,000 TONS, VALUED AT 5.1 BILLION YUAN, THE
  SOURCES ADDED.
       MEANWHILE, A NATIONWIDE INVESTIGATION OF SOURCES OF TRADITIONAL
  CHINESE MEDICINAL INGREDIENTS WAS COMPLETED DURING THE SEVENTH FIVE-
  YEAR PLAN PERIOD.
       IN RECENT YEARS, THE POPULARITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
  AND ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION TREATMENTS HAS BEEN INCREASING
  WORLDWIDE. CHINA HAS ESTABLISHED RELATIONS WITH MORE THAN 130
  COUNTRIES AND REGIONS FOR ACADEMIC AND COMMERCIAL EXCHANGES OF
  TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS. AND A GROUP OF
  FOREIGN SPECIALISTS IN THIS FIELD HAS BEEN TRAINED IN CHINA.
       THE WORK OF SEVEN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE CO-OPERATION CENTERS
  SPONSORED BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IN CHINA HAS BEEN
  REMARKABLE IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS. fN ADDITION, THE HEADQUARTERS OF
  THE WORLD ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION FEDERATION AND THE WORLD
  MEDICAL QIGONG SOCIETY WERE ESTABLISHED IN CHINA DURING THIS PERIOD.
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