The Construction Situationand Development Strategy Research Of The Leading Institutions Of Traditionalchinese Medicine (TCM) In ChongQing

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as Chinese traditionalmedicine, which has been carrying Chinese ancient people’sexperience and knowledge to struggle against diseases for hundreds ofyears, is a specific theoretical and practical medical system developedthrough long-time medical practices under the guidance of ancientsimple materialism and natural dialectics. Nowadays, along with therapid development of economy and society, and the more humanisticmedicine, TCM has increasingly shown its vigorous vitality anddevelopment potential due to its characteristics and advantages, such asholism, preventing a disease from the beginning and dialecticaltreatment. Qian Xue-sen, a famous Chinese scientist, has predicted:“Traditional Chinese Medicine will dominate medicine in21stcentury.” But at present, the truth is that “western medicine is morepowerful and popular than Chinese medicine” and “TCM has gradually lost its words power and the importance”. Thus, in order to improve thebad situation of TCM and prosper it, to investigate the construction anddevelopment of the leading institutions of TCM and then rely on "theleading effect", is definitely an effective shortcut to fast promote thecomprehensive development of TCM health service and greatly raisethe low position of TCM.In Chongqing,"To build Chongqing into the medical center of theupper reaches of the Yangtze River, and make it create a strongradiation in the western region, and then also make it form a strongmedical influence and comprehensive competitiveness in the country ",is the goal by2020which be putted forward in Chongqing. But for along time, the TCM has always been the weakness of development ofthe health service in Chongqing. One of the most important reasons isthat the construction and development of the leading institutions ofTCM in Chongqing is in the behind level of the nation. According tothe principle of the wooden barrel, the TCM career should be the keyto break through the bottleneck of the health service development andachieve the goal of becoming the medical center of the upper YangtzeRiver in Chongqing, and the construction and development of theleading institutions of TCM is the key to the key. Therefore, timely tocarry out the research of the construction and development of theleading institutions of TCM in Chongqing appears very important. In view of this, by consulting and analyzing the literature which relates tothe leading institutions of TCM in recent years, and combined with theprofessional knowledge learned, this paper research purposefully baseson the in-depth study of the situation and significance of theconstruction and development of the leading institutions of TCM inChongqing, further using the SWOT analysis method tocomprehensively analyze the internal strength and weakness, externalopportunity and threat of the construction and development of theleading institutions of TCM in Chongqing, and finally put forward thefuture development strategy and the basic principle that should befollowed in the construction and development of the leadinginstitutions of TCM in Chongqing. By these, aiming to provide thetheory support and policy suggestions of rejuvenating the TCM careerand realizing the program goal of "building the medical center of theupper reaches of the Yangtze River" in Chongqing.