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Proposal of Constructing Beautiful Zhongfang as a
World TCM City
By Dr. Zhu Ming
President of Zhongfang Red Cross International Hospital
Respected Secretary Zhang Xia, County Mayor Jiang Yaowen and all
the leaders of the county government.
From the moment I had been first invited to eco-city of
Zhongfang by my friends from Zhongfang Red Cross Organization in
2007, I thoroughly fell in love with this beautiful city. In
recent years, Zhongfang has experienced great changes of being
from small to large, ordinary to
elegant,
rough to pretty. All these amazing changes made her getting more
and more fascinating. These achievements are the combination of
government leaders¡¯ wisdom and
strategic viewpoints, also reflected all our constructors¡¯
enthusiasm and hardworking. Because I want to stay together with
this piece of land all my life, I¡¯d eulogize it as well as all
the leaders and people here from the bottom of my heart. What¡¯s
more, I¡¯d also eulogize the
miraculous ¡°Cap Mountain¡± that keeps on blessing this land.
Here I sincerely appeal that eco-city of Zhongfang can be
positioned as a world-class city of traditional Chinese medicine
so that the amazing and beautiful Zhongfang will not only
impress Hunan and China but impress the whole world.
Because of a casual chat among the European business people,
Davos, a small town with only 13,000 residents in Switzerland
Europe has developed a holy place where the important statesmen
and all sorts of elites come there every year from all over the
world. In that way, why not this beautiful eco-city cannot be
the holy place where all people will be here to discuss the most
important topic in life, health problem? I have a strong feeling
that Zhongfang will become this holy place and she surly must
be. The reasons are as follows:
1. Favorable timing
Western medicine culture has come into China for about 100
years, and it is getting to the highest point during these
recent 30 years. It is widely respected that western medicine
plays a crucial part in first-aid and operation, however, 70-80%
of human diseases belong to chronic and common problems as well
as frequently-encountered and difficult diseases. Since western
medicine is on the basis of chemical substances and it results
in side effects and white pollution to human body¡¯s environment,
modern people are getting more and more worried. Therefore
people have very strong desire for the green and ecological
concepts concerning air, water, food, environment, medical
service and medicine.
Under these circumstances, 5000-years history of Chinese
medicine has come up to the stage once again with the big
advantages of green and ecological effects. Now Chinese medicine
has become all people¡¯s expectation around the world. In order
to improve our abilities to learn about and prevent diseases as
well as increase self-protection, Beijing municipal government
has declared that Chinese medicine will be added to the
compulsory courses in all middle schools next semester.
Chinese medicine is now on the way of comprehensive revival all
over our country and what¡¯s more the society gives more and more
attention to TCM specialists. Some places having famous ancient
TCM doctors such as Nanyang, Henan (hometown of medical sage,
Zhang Zhongjin), Bozhou, Anhui (hometown of highly skilled
doctor, Hua Tuo), Qichun, Hubei (herbal master, Li Shizhen) are
rushing to build themselves as the city of Chinese medicine in
China. However they cannot be constructed as a world-class city
of TCM, for lack of international humanistic basis. But on the
contrary, Zhongfang city is in a different condition.
Our team of Zhongfang Red Cross International Hospital has
received over 1000 international patients, TCM students and
foreign friends from all over the world since our international
TCM service team had been established in the year of 2000.
Red Net reporter Feng Jun who was commissioned by the director
of Red Net Mr. Shu Bin wrote an article on Dragon Boat Festival
two months ago saying among about 2800 TCM hospitals in China,
but there might be nearly no one using pure traditional Chinese
medicine in its true sense. Zhongfang Red Cross International
Hospital may be the first pure TCM hospital without using any
western medicine.
February 8, 2012 Mr. Kong Heping, the director of Hunan press
office visited our hospital and he said there was no second one
with such service performance in Hunan, even in the whole
country he had never seen this kind of international TCM team.
Mr. Kong Heping pointed that the long-term aim was to build our
hospital to an important international publicity base of Chinese
and TCM cultures in Hunan and even the whole country.
Gao
Decai, secretary-general of Hunan Friendship Association with
Foreign Countries said at the 4th friendship association that
the organization has received 2000 international friends within
8 years. He highly appreciated our team¡¯s performance in
international folk exchanges. Considering above 80% of
international friends coming to our hospital in Huaihua, our
hospital has been designated as foreigner management key unit by
our foreign affairs office. More than 1000 international friends
visiting predicts that the world-class city of TCM must be
Zhongfang.
2.
Geographical advantage
Potential value of the geographical name ¡°Zhongfang¡± is
enormous. For example, some phrases related to ¡®Zhongfang¡¯ are
very magnificent and easy to recite, such as ¡®Chinese medicine
lies in Zhongfang¡¯, ¡®The world TCM in Zhongfang¡¯, ¡®Zhongfang
international TCM Forum¡¯. These phrases are very easy to gain
acceptance literally and phonetically. ¡®Zhongfang and Zhong Yi
(i.e. TCM)¡¯ are matched as a union smoothly.
Numerous cultural relics about the ancestor of Chinese nation
Yan Emperor, also known as Shen Nongshi has been found in
Lianshan Area, Huitong County nearby. Shen Nongshi set up
Chinese agriculture firstly meanwhile he tasted hundreds of
herbs and started traditional Chinese medicine. Shen Nongshi
tasted various plants and herbs in the surrounding mountains. He
left his footprints all around Zhongfang.
From the viewpoint of TCM, medicine and food are of the same
source.
The
contemporary Shen Nongshi in China,
Mr. Yuan Longping is the father of my high school classmate Yuan
Dingjiang. When I was a
senior student, I often went to their home and Anjiang
agricultural school for fun and observation. I was influenced
greatly at that time. In Anjiang agricultural school, where is
just 30 kilometers away from Zhongfang Mr. Yuan Longping
achieved remarkable success on research of hybrid rice. This
achievement is the pride of Chinese and is also the great
support to people of the world. The hybrid rice feeds about 70
millions of people on the earth every year.
Why it is a coincidence that both ancient and contemporary Shen
Nongshi appeared in Zhongfang and the nearby area? We have to
think about the uniqueness, namely, the geographical advantage
of this piece of land. At present,
Chinese herbal medicine cultivation also becomes an important
industry in Zhongfang. We believe with the popularity of
world-class city of TCM the local industry will be promoted and
therefore all the people in Zhongfang will share the benefit.
TCM flourishes in Zhongfang. After we had moved into the new
hospital less than 15 days from Aug. 1st, 2010 a father from UAE
brought his deaf son Faique to our hospital for TCM treatment.
Faique has been suffering from total deafness for 18 years
because of viral meningitis when he was 11 months old.
Afterwards, the patient sought treatment around the world but
without any help.After two weeks comprehensive TCM treatment the
miracle appeared, that his left ear¡¯s hearing was almost normal
examined by doctors in the 535 Army Hospital. In addition, his
right ear¡¯s hearing was obviously improved as well. All our
medical staffs were very glad to see the good results and his
story became the news report on Huaihua TV. The miracle is
rarely seen in international medical field.
Mar. 18th, 2012 Dr. Walid, the father of a Jordanian patient
wrote a letter to Chinese Red Cross Organization¡¯s president Mr.
Hua Jianmin, he expressed his appreciation to Chairman Hu
Jintao, prime minister Wen Jiabao, Chinese medicine and our
hospital for curing his daughter with 13 years systematic
scleroderma. Because of 13 years of illness her muscular
stiffness exists in many parts of her body and she tried lots of
famous hospitals around the world but no effect. Happily that
the patient was recovered 95% by staying at our hospital two and
a half months together with one-month¡¯s herbal medicine at home.
Such an obvious effect impressed many international friends
completely. There are too many successful cases to mention one
by one and how big the international TCM market may never be
known.
Both Zhongfang and TCM are as flourishing as
Davos and the World Economic Forum. With the card of
¡®international TCM city¡¯, it will definitely provide Zhongfang
with some connotations of ecology,
garden£¬environment
protection£¬health,
sanitation,
civilization and internationalization. It is a big promotion to
social and economic development in Zhongfang.
3. Humanistic advantage
The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor
(also known as Huangdi Neijing), the earliest classical
works on TCM is an important masterpiece named after our
national ancestor the Yellow Emperor. This book wasn¡¯t
successfully translated into English language by Chinese person
since it had been finished for 2000 years. Luckily, I became the
first Chinese person who translated The Medical Classic of
the Yellow Emperor. It took me eight years to complete the
translation and that happened in Huaihua, a city only 15
kilometers far from Zhongfang. This book was published by
Beijing Foreign Languages Press in the year of 2000 and it was
promoted to more than 100 countries. Some time ago, the English
version was collected in library of the University of California
and it was also listed in Google world library. The Medical
Classic of the Yellow Emperor has already become the
important clinical reference to many foreign medical
organizations. The success of the book¡¯s translation is regarded
as the root of our Zhongfang international TCM career.
I still
remember my 38-year-old birthday was just on December 24th, the
Christmas Eve. Driven by curiosity, I looked through the
calendar and found by coincidence that I was born on Christmas
Eve in 1968. I can recall another what happened to me, that when
I got university admission notice in 1986, but my expected major
had been changed by a teacher. So my desired university was
changed into Hunan TCM University from Hunan Agriculture
University. I am still confused by these two matters so far.
It seems like that I¡¯ll be connected with god, yellow emperor,
TCM and Zhongfang all my life. I believe all your readers are
the excellent sons and daughters of our national ancestor yellow
emperor. The heaven is about to place a great responsibility on
you and of course you are the great persons arranged by yellow
emperor. Hope you could interpret his eager anticipation and
make joint efforts to promote this great career. The rise of TCM
is our nation¡¯s happiness and even good news to people around
the world.
My TCM team still can make some achievements with such a weak
power. If the strong Zhongfang county government could set a
wise orientation, make an overall plan and spare no effort to
promote this career, why worry that the accomplishment doesn¡¯t
happen, Zhongfang couldn¡¯t be a world pearl of health, Zhongfang
couldn¡¯t be rich, Chinese culture can¡¯t flourish throughout the
world?
With great support of some people with wisdom, our land area is
expanded to 200,000 square meters for further development.
What¡¯s more our hospital is named as Zhongfang TCM hospital
given by county government. Now what we need to do next is
improving hardware conditions, cultivating qualified personnel,
decorating especially, increasing influence and extending
steadily. Indeed it has a long way to go. Although we have to
face many difficulties and hardships I strongly believe it is
the darkness before dawn.
In summary, becoming international TCM city is the will of the
heaven, earth and people. Zhongfang is a favorable place for
human health; it must be brilliant and lucky. I am deeply in
love with this piece of land so I eulogize her and offer my
proposal by my heart.
Proposer£ºZhu
Ming
President of Zhongfang Red Cross International hospital
August 28, 2012
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