 In the 40 years since the founding of the academy, especially since the adopting of opening-up policy, the international exchange activities of the academy have increased day by day. The depth of the international exchange has been unceasingly deepened and the scope enlarged.
With the increasing growth of the influence of the academy in international traditional medicine circles, more and more physicians, scholars, as well as national leaders and government officials have come from abroad to visit the academy and to take part in the TCM academic exchange activities of various kinds. A large number of overseas patients have come to the academy to seek medical treatment. The number of guests visiting the academy and receiving treatment amounts to more than 3,000 each yea. At the same time, in the past few years, the scientific personal and medical workers have often been invited to go abroad, attending international academic conferences of symposiums, and conducting exchange activities in different fields of TCM. The number of them averages 200 each year. In addition, the academy has trained 4,000 acupuncturists and orthopedists for 100 countries. To date, the academy has established academic relations and cooperation with the major scientific research institutions, colleges and universities, as well as TCM research institutions in more than 20 countries. Medical care and scientific research centers have been set up in succession in more than 10 countries and regions, including Japan, Britain, American, Spain, Malaysia, Thailand, Tanzania, and so on.
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