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prevention and treatment of prevalent diseases and R&D for new herbal

medicines. By the end of 2004, nearly 900 achievements have been

made, among which nearly 300 achievements have been awarded on
the national and ministerial levels. Concurrently, there are 482 ongoing

projects above the Academy level, including 200 projects to be

supported by the national fund and 258 by the Health Ministry and the
State Administration. In addition, the National Clinical Trial Center for

New Herbal Medicines (GCP), the National Standardization Laboratory
for Chinese Herbal Pharmacology, China Center for TCM Literature

Retrieval and P3 Laboratory, the national Center for Evaluation on Safety
of Herbal Medicines (GLP) and the National Development Research

Center for Herbal Compound Medicine are all located in the Academy.

A high quality medical service is provided in CACMS for patients both

from home and abroad, on the basis of bringing the unique

characteristics and features of TCM therapy into full play. There are more
than 1,500 beds in total in CACMS.Xi Yuan Hospital and Guang An Men

Hospital, affiliated to CACMS, are categorized as the highest level TCM

hospitals and the national TCM model hospitals. Wang Jing Hospital,
another affiliated hospital of CACMS, is a general hospital with the main

features laid on Chinese orthopedics and traumatology. And the Eye
Hospital is a specialized hospital treating eye diseases with both TCM and

western therapies. All of these hospitals have gained a high reputation
both at home and abroad for their abundant experiences and excellent

therapeutic effects in the fields of treating various kind of diseases, such

as: cardio-vascular diseases, geriatric diseases, diabetes, anorectic
diseases, skin diseases and urologic diseases, etc.

CACMS is also an important educational base for training senior
professionals on TCM throughout the country. It has been authorized to

issue master’s degrees and doctor’s degrees in all of the disciplines of

TCM, which are classified into all of the 3 first-class subjects of TCM,
namely, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Chinese materia medica,

and the Intergrated Traditional and Western Medicine (TCM-WM). Also,