The 7th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Inheritance, Innovation and Development Conference was held in Hong Kong, where the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine successfully signed three major cooperation projects.
On December 2, the 7th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area TCM Inheritance, Innovation and Development Conference grandly opened in Hong Kong. At the conference, Kuang Weihong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, on behalf of the hospital, jointly signed three cooperation agreements with the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Hospital, Hong Kong Baptist University and Macau University of Science and Technology. Covering the TCM Visiting Scholar Program, training of specialized talents in TCM oncology, and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for TCM Clinical Foundations, these agreements mark that the hospital has stepped into a new stage of deeper and broader TCM collaboration among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau.
Since its establishment in June 2022, initiated by Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, together with Hong Kong Baptist University and Macau University of Science and Technology, the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for TCM Clinical Foundations” has held three consecutive teaching seminars. It has built a regular exchange platform for TCM educators in the three regions, promoted the establishment of the Greater Bay Area Classic Inheritance and Innovation Research Center, improved the level of TCM classic teaching, and integrated digital resources.
Since 2023, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine has collaborated with the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong on the “TCM Visiting Scholar Program”. It has sent experts to multiple Hong Kong medical institutions such as Kowloon Hospital, Tuen Mun Hospital and Tseung Kwan O Hospital for teaching on many occasions, training nearly 40 Hong Kong TCM practitioners. It has gradually formed standardized diagnosis and treatment plans for integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine for diseases such as cerebrovascular diseases, tumors and strokes, providing solid support for the construction of Hong Kong’s integrated TCM and Western medicine medical system.
To help build a high-level talent team for the TCM oncology outpatient, day ward and inpatient services of Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Hospital, the oncology center team led by State TCM Master Zhou Daihan and “Most Beautiful Doctor” Lin Lizhu from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine has tailored a three-dimensional training program of “theory + practice + assessment” for physicians of Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Hospital. Through forms such as one-on-one teaching, clinical ward rounds, theoretical lectures and practical workshops, it helps Hong Kong colleagues systematically master oncology-specific diagnosis and treatment plans and day ward management experience. The first batch of training was successfully completed recently and received high praise from the participating physicians.
The centralized signing of multiple cooperation agreements is another substantive measure for the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine to deeply participate in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area TCM highland. In the future, the hospital will continue to give play to its TCM characteristics, advantages and disciplinary leading role, deepen cooperation among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau in talent training, clinical research and standard co-construction, and jointly promote the inheritance, innovation and international development of TCM.
