Li Jian
Graduate School, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510405, China.
Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 2014 Nov;44(6):341-7.
"Unity of traditional Chinese and western medicine" was one of the three major health work principles at the early founding of the People's Republic of China. It was not only a choice of political strategy in line with the lack of contemporary health-care resources, but also a part of the revolutionary heritage for more than 20 years in the process of the Chinese Communist Party from the preliminary "application of both traditional and western medicine" to the making of the principles of both "cooperation of traditional Chinese and western medicine" and "unity of traditional Chinese and western medicine". All this was closely related to the concrete environment of the Chinese health work of various stages of Yan'an period with strong revolutionary atmosphere and was not the professional demand of the health workers, rather, this principle set up in 1950 was the result of the careful consideration of Mao Zedong and an adjustment guided under the revolutionary framework of Neo-democracy set up under the guidance of the Common Principle which was a bettered adaptation to the contemporary national condition.
“中西医结合”是新中国成立初期三大卫生工作方针之一。它既是符合当时卫生保健资源匮乏状况的政治战略选择，也是中国共产党在从初步的“中西医并用”到制定“中西医合作”“中西医结合”方针的二十多年革命历程中的革命遗产的一部分。这一切与延安时期各阶段具有浓厚革命氛围的中国卫生工作的具体环境密切相关，并非卫生工作者的专业需求，相反，1950年确立的这一方针是毛泽东深思熟虑的结果，是在《共同纲领》指引下建立的新民主主义革命框架下的一种调整，是对当时国情的更好适应。
