人类在漫长发展进程中创造了丰富多彩的世界文明，中华文明是世界文明多样性、多元化的重要组成部分。中医药作为中华文明的杰出代表，是中国各族人民在几千年生产生活实践和与疾病作斗争中逐步形成并不断丰富发展的医学科学，不仅为中华民族繁衍昌盛作出了卓越贡献，也对世界文明进步产生了积极影响。
Humanity has created a colorful global civilization in the long course of its development, and the civilization of China is an important component of the world civilization harboring great diversity. As a representative feature of Chinese civilization, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a medical science that was formed and developed in the daily life of the people and in the process of their fight against diseases over thousands of years. It has made a great contribution to the nation's procreation and the country's prosperity, in addition to producing a positive impact on the progress of human civilization.
新中国成立以来，中国高度重视和大力支持中医药发展。中医药与西医药优势互补，相互促进，共同维护和增进民众健康，已经成为中国特色医药卫生与健康事业的重要特征和显著优势。
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government has set great store by TCM and rendered vigorous support to its development. TCM and Western medicine have their different strengths. They work together in China to protect people from diseases and improve public health. This has turned out to be one of the important features and notable strengths of medicine with Chinese characteristics.
在数千年的发展过程中，中医药不断吸收和融合各个时期先进的科学技术和人文思想，不断创新发展，理论体系日趋完善，技术方法更加丰富，形成了鲜明的特点。
Duringits course of development spanning a couple of millennia, TCM has kept drawing and assimilating advanced elements of natural science and humanities. Through many innovations, its theoretical base covered more ground and its remedies against various diseases expanded, displaying unique characteristics.
中医药是中华优秀传统文化的重要组成部分和典型代表，强调“道法自然、天人合一”，“阴阳平衡、调和致中”，“以人为本、悬壶济世”，体现了中华文化的内核。
TCM is an important component and a characteristic feature of traditional Chinese culture. Applying such principles as \should observe the law of thenature and seek for the unity of the heaven and humanity,\yin andyang should be balanced to obtain the golden mean,\and \practice ofmedicine should aim to help people,\TCM embodies the core value of Chinese civilization.
中医药还提倡“三因制宜、辨证论治”，“固本培元、壮筋续骨”，“大医精诚、仁心仁术”，更丰富了中华文化内涵，为中华民族认识和改造世界提供了有益启迪。
TCM also advocates \full consideration of theenvironment, individual constitution, and climatic and seasonal conditions whenpracticing syndrome differentiation and determining therapies,\reinforcingthe fundamental and cultivating the vital energy, and strengthening tendons andbones,\and \mastership of medicine lying in proficient medicalskills and lofty medical ethics,\all concepts that enrich Chinese cultureand provide an enlightened base from which to study and transform the world.
据世界卫生组织统计，目前103个会员国认可使用针灸，其中29个设立了传统医学的法律法规，18个将针灸纳入医疗保险体系。中药逐步进入国际医药体系，已在俄罗斯、古巴、越南、新加坡和阿联酋等国以药品形式注册。有30多个国家和地区开办了数百所中医药院校，培养本土化中医药人才。
According to the World Health Organization, 103 member states have given approval to the practice of acupuncture and moxibustion, 29 have enacted special statutes on traditionalmedicine, and 18 have included acupuncture and moxibustion treatment in their medical insurance provisions. TCM medicines have gradually entered the international system of medicines, and some of them have been registered in Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, and other nations. Some 30 countries and regions have opened a couple of hundred TCM schools to train native TCM workers.
(Source: Xinhua)
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