朱庆生 教授

中华人民共和国卫生部副部长兼国家中医药管理局局长

国际传统医药大会（北京 2000）组织委员会主席

尊敬的女士们、先生们：

　　我谨以中华人民共和国卫生部副部长兼国家中医药管理局局长及本次大会组织委员会主席的名义，十分荣幸地邀请您参加国际传统医药大会（北京 2000）。

　　人类即将迈入21世纪。“人人享有卫生保健”仍然是新世纪世界卫生工作面临的重要任务。实现“人人享有卫生保健”的宏伟目标，需要包括传统医药学在内的多种医学学科的相互协作与共同努力。世界卫生组织十分重视传统医药学的发展，并为推动其发展做出了卓有成效的工作。传统医药学中所包含的天然药物疗法、非药物疗法及心理疗法等等，具有避免或减少毒副作用、降低医疗成本、扩大基本卫生保健服务覆盖范围的突出优势。因此，科学而有效地发挥传统医药学的医疗保健作用，将成为21世纪世界卫生工作的热点之一。

　　在新世纪伊始，举办国际传统医药大会，世界卫生组织给予了大力支持，世界各国传统医药界的专家和学者汇集一起交流学术经验，共商进入21世纪传统医药学的发展大计，确立传统医药学在未来人类卫生保健工作中的地位和作用，对于多方面开发与利用卫生保健资源，提高全人类的医疗保健水平具有十分重要的意义。

　　四月的北京春意盎然，风光独秀，气候宜人。我们作为东道主正在积极进行筹备，热烈欢迎国内外的同道光临北京，出席这次具有重要意义的大会。

朱庆生 教授

1999年10月 于北京

INVITATION

October, 1999 Beijing

Dear colleagues:

In the name of the Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Director-General of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and President of the Organizing Committee of the Congress, I feel greatly honored to invite you to attend the International Congress on Traditional Medicine (Beijing 2000).

We are marching forward to the 21^st century. The goal “Health For All” will still be an important task to be reached in the new century. It demands mutual cooperation and joint efforts from all professionals of every branch of learning of the medical sciences, including traditional medicine. The World Health Organization has attached a great importance to the development of traditional medicine, and done fruitful work for promoting its development. Natural pharmacotherapy, non-pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, etc. in traditional medicine possess outstanding advantage in reducing toxicity and side effects, lowering medical cost, broadening the scope of basic health care. Therefore, to enhance the role of traditional medicine in the health care scientifically and effectively is one of the major priorities in world health work of the 21^st century.

At the turning point to the new century, having a great support from the World Health Organization in sponsoring the International Congress on Traditional Medicine, having numerous experts and scholars in the field of traditional medicine from all over the world gathered together to exchange academic experience, discuss the developing strategy of the traditional medicine in the 21^st century and define the status and role of traditional medicine in the health care system in the future are of great importance in exploiting and taking advantage of the medical and health-care resources from various channels in order to upgrade the medical and health level of the mankind.

April in Beijing is the spring time with pleasant weather and beautiful scenery. As the host, we are making active preparations. We warmly welcome colleagues at home and abroad to participate in this important and significant Congress.