From September 22 to 24,2011, the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Center of our hospital successfully organized the "2011 Beijing International Symposium on Acupuncture and Moxibustion". The symposium was sponsored by the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, Beijing Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Capital Medical University, and co-organized by our hospital, Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine International Exchange & Cooperation Center and other units.
More than 150 people including the well-known experts and scholars with excellent achievements in the international acupuncturology research field, the domestic and foreign acupuncture workers and students attended the meeting. Han Jisheng, the Academician and Neurophysiologist, and Professor He Puren, the "National TCM Great Master" and Representative Successor of Acupuncture Project of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, are Honorary Chairmen of the symposium, and Wang Jusheng, Director of the hospital, is the Executive Chairman. Wang Xiaopin, the Director of the International Department of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, He Huiling, the Executive Vice Chairman of Beijing Association for Science and Technology, Zhao Jing, the Director of Beijing Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wang Xiaomin, the Vice President of Capital Medical University, Chen Jing, the Party Secretary of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Jin Mei, the Vice President of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, attended the opening ceremony. Secretary Chen Jing presided over the meeting.
Professor Han Jisheng, the Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liang Fanrong, the Vice President of Chengdu University of TCM, Wang Xiaomin, the Vice President of Capital Medical University, and Director Wang Linpeng, the Leader of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Discipline, respectively presented reports entitled "Acupuncture and Translational Medicine", "Progress of the Study of Meridian-Acupoint Specificity", "Evaluation of Therapeutic Effect and Research Mechanism of Electroacupuncture on Parkinson's Disease Rat Model", and "Scientific Evidence and Reflection on Migraine".
The symposium is the first international conference of acupuncture and moxibustion discipline to promote the discipline construction program. In line with the principle of "Emphasizing Precision and Depth", the conference emphasized "discussion" instead of pursuing scale. Based on the research status of international SCI papers, more than 10 scholars from Austria, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Korea, Australia, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and other countries and regions were invited. Nine foreign scholars gave keynote speeches respectively at the meeting. They reported their research achievements from the aspects of evidence finding, acupuncture and high technology, clinical design and mechanism study of acupuncture. High-level acupuncture research reports at home and abroad were the main highlights of the conference, which were praised by the international and domestic experts and participants in this conference. They highly praised the conference with the expressions like "unexpected", "wonderful", "excellent", etc. Many experts said they hadn't attended such an international conference for a long time.
Another highlight of the conference was a free seminar on acupuncture and moxibustion science research organized by the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Center of our hospital. All the foreign guests took part in the discussion. Experts took the floor in a lively and debatable atmosphere, and the meeting, which began in the evening, lasted until nearly 11 at night. Finally, at the initiative of the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Center, the participants agreed to establish an academic organization (Collaboration for International Acupuncture Scientific Research - CIASR) to jointly conduct acupuncture research in traditional Chinese medicine, providing a platform for academic and cultural exchanges. At the meeting, a framework cooperation agreement was formed, and all parties jointly attended the signing ceremony of the agreement.
On the day the meeting was ended, all the foreign guests visited Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine accompanied by Vice President Jin Mei. Foreign scholars said that they had deeper understanding for the acupuncture discipline through the conference. They gave high praise to the research achievements of this discipline in recent years. In addition, the meeting was covered by China News of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Health News, Science and Technology Daily, Beijing Evening News, The Mirror, Sina.com.cn and other media reported the meeting.
