The central and Inner Mongolia governments will put 310 million yuan ($49.90 million) towards boosting traditional Chinese and Mongolian medicines development in the autonomous region, according to the local health and family planning commission.

Inner Mongolia has paid special attention to local traditional Chinese and Mongolian medicines development. It has strengthened infrastructure construction at 43 TCM hospitals, as well as common disease services and key specialized medical skills. The autonomous region has given support to 2,952 community-level medical institutes for Chinese and Mongolian medicines technology and service capacity building.

At the same time, it has carried out dynamic price research and adjusted 387 medical service costs. More than 50 traditional Chinese and Mongolian medicines institutes have been brought together into a conglomerate. The local government has launched a pilot program to integrate traditional Chinese and Mongolian medicine management on the county, village and town level, and 73 TCM hospitals have passed the national evaluation as second or third-level hospitals.

In addition, the autonomous region has improved diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently-occurring diseases, as well as focused on special disease treatment. It has vigorously popularized local traditional Chinese and Mongolian medicine technology and brought traditional Chinese and Mongolian medicines service into the new rural cooperative medical system. The national Inner Mongolia medicine workshop is under smooth construction, and local medicine external exchange and cooperation has been included in China's strategic partnership with Mongolia.

Edited by Michael Thai