Preface
Traditional Chinese Medicine Yearbook of China is sponsored by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its predecessor was Yearbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine which was first published by Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1983. In 1989, the Yearbook was renamed Traditional Chinese Medicine Yearbook of China. Thirty-six volumes have been consecutively published so far. In 2003, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine decided to divide the Yearbook into two volumes, administration volume and academic volume. The administration volume is compiled by China Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine, while the academic volume is compiled by Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine Yearbook of China (Academic volume) (hereafter referred to as the Yearbook) is a comprehensive, advanced, authoritative and historical reference book fully reflecting the academic achievement and progress of China traditional Chinese medicine (hereafter referred to as TCM), also considered as a reference book of national historical archives.
The Yearbook 2019 is based on published national TCM scholarly journals and best essays presented in national academic conferences in the last year. Each item included was finalized through discussion among editorial board member of the Yearbook, editors, writers and relevant experts. The Yearbook has to go through initial evaluation by editors, review by deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief, and final approval by editorial board of the Yearbook.
Both paper version and CD-ROM version of the Yearbook are available. The paper version consists of columns such as Special Reprint, Special Papers, University President Forum, Academic Achievements, Academic Progress, Events and Index. The Appendix lists Top 50 Journals for Citation Frequency in the Yearbook, Top 50 Universities (Colleges) for Citation Frequency in the Yearbook, Top 40 Medical Institutions for Citation Frequency in the Yearbook, etc. The CD-ROM version covers the newly published TCM specifications, principles and standards, the project list of TCM awards, the study of new ingredients and components of Chinese material medica, the lists of newly published TCM books and TCM journals, and classified catalogue of TCM scholarly journal articles. The content indexes of TCM articles contain over 2,000,000 Chinese characters with multi–way retrieval function, providing easy access for readers to search TCM literature of the last year.
In this Yearbook, section “Healthcare” is changed to section “Healthcare and Rehabilitation”. “Top Ten China Medicine News Stories in 2018” is added into column “Academic Achievements”.
Year 2018 is the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening up. The legislation work of TCM went through the Regulations on the Revitalization of Traditional Chinese Medicine (draft submitted for review) in 1982, the Regulations on Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China in 2003, and the Law on Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China in 2017. The improvement of laws and regulations has epoch-making significance in the development history of TCM. The Yearbook specifically republishes the article “Traditional Chinese Medicine and Reform and Opening Up for 40 Years” in column “Special Papers”, fully reflecting the development process of medicine, healthcare, scientific research, education, industry and culture of TCM since the reform and opening up, with strong support of the Party's policies and national laws and regulations.
The academic progress part closely follows continuous report of key projects in various disciplines. The Yearbook has over 4,300 citations from articles published on TCM journals, and essays sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The Preface and Table of Contents of the Yearbook are written in both Chinese and English.
As put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping on the 19th CPC National Congress, “Equal importance shall be attached to TCM and Western medicine to inherit and develop TCM”, which fully embodies great attention paid by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to TCM and points out the direction for us to promote the inheritance and development of TCM in the new era. The Yearbook is essential for academic inheritance and innovation. It will not only serve the contemporary but also benefit the future. All the editors, with tremendous rigor and enormous sense of historical mission, will further improve the compilation quality and increase the academic influence of the Yearbook to enable it to play full role in supporting state affairs upon recording history and foreseeing the future by reviewing the past, making the Yearbook homeland and brand of TCM science.
Editor
August 2019