Support provided for TCM facility upgrades

A package of measures has been released to support the high-quality development of county-level traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, according to a recent guideline from the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

By the end of 2030, all counties except for those with a very small population, should be equipped with a county-level TCM hospital, and their medical capabilities should be parallel with or exceed those of secondary hospitals — the midlevel in China's three-tier hospital system.

China has more than 2,000 county-level TCM hospitals currently, accounting for three-quarters of public TCM hospitals nationwide and handling about 70 percent of visits to TCM health institutions across all counties.