An online signing ceremony for scientific cooperation between China and Uzbekistan is held. [Photo/WeChat account: hafbwx]

Hai'an – a county-level city administered by Nantong in East China's Jiangsu province – and the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan are joining forces to advance traditional Chinese medicine in the latter.

To do so, the China-Uzbekistan International Academic Exchange and Signing Ceremony of Agreement on Scientific Cooperation was held online on July 6.

Zabiarov, vice-minister of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan and Yu Lizhong, Party secretary of Hai'an, participated in the event.

The Yangzhou University Medical College and Hai'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital signed contracts with representatives from Uzbekistan to be involved in a number of scientific projects there.

They include specific projects and cultural exchanges in traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM. Chinese scientific and medical teams will go to Uzbekistan to provide guidance and instructions and Uzbekistan will send students, doctors and related personnel to China for training.

The Uzbekistan minister welcomed the development and hoped it would boost exchanges between the two sides in TCM and improve his country's scientific research ability, promoting its all-round development of medical care.

Hai'an Party Secretary Yu Lizhong said that the city would take the event as an opportunity to actively carry out scientific research and innovation cooperation for TCM.

"We will promote TCM culture, continuously expand the international influence of TCM and better support health cooperation between Jiangsu and Uzbekistan," he added.