Seed magazine article on Chinese science

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http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2005/11/what_happens_when_science_is_m.php

 

 

/An enormous white statue of Li Shizhen, the father of Chinese medicine,

stands in the atrium of Shanghai's Research Center for Modernization of

Traditional , looking solemn but content. He is

surrounded by dozens of potted flowers that vaguely suggest an altar.

For Chinese policy makers, one of the most obvious---and most

Chinese---places to take science is to a discipline with a 2000-year

history. The country's next five-year plan will allot one billion yuan

($121 million) toward the development and modernization of traditional

medicine. Shanghai unveiled its sparkling modernization center, which

houses 2,500 square meters of lab space and 50 full-time researchers, in

Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Shanghai's answer to Zhongguancun, last year./

 

/Director De-An Guo, who received his doctorate from Beijing Medical

University, recognizes that traditional medicine has an image problem

abroad and among younger Chinese at home. His center aims to transform

the experienced-based discipline to an evidence-based one through

clinical trials and quality control. It is the largest of several

facilities around the country that conduct double-blind,

placebo-controlled trials for traditional medicine. The next step is

internationalization; the center is working with both Chinese and

Western companies to develop products for the foreign market. Indeed,

Americans spend in the neighborhood of $40 billion on complimentary and

alternative medicine every year. .../

 

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