The aim of this paper is to critically explore the complex debates on the contemporary growth of China’s urban economies. It has been well documented that China is the second largest economy in the world and is seen to be a major player in the financial markets. Over the last decade China has experienced a dramatic urban transformation and globalization is a key factor in the change in China fr...

Traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine have their distinctive superiorities, and are mutually complementary in spite of their different systems of theory. The integration of traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine can promote the development of medical science. Over the past 40 years, a number of great achievements have been made in the field of the integratio...

1Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan 2Graduate Institute of Immunology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10048, Taiwan 3Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology & Immunology, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 4Department of Food Science and Bio...

1Department of Oncology, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100010, China 2Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China 3Department of Oncology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, China 4Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 75123 Upps...

Twelve websites are introduced that are the courses on Chinese medicine included in Jing Pin Kecheng (launched by the Ministry of Education of the People' s Republic of China). The websites provide free, searchable and peer-reviewed course materials on Chinese medicine. Anyone who is interested in Chinese medicine should not ignore these website resources.

Due to its incomparable advantages, the application of transcriptome sequencing in the study of traditional Chinese medicine attracts more and more attention of researchers, which greatly promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine. In this paper, the applications of transcriptome sequencing in traditional Chinese medicine were summarized by reviewing recent related papers.

1 Institute of Acupuncture, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 16 Nanxiaojie, Dongzhimen, Beijing 100700, China 2School of Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong 3Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, 1115 W. Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA 4Massachusetts General Hospi...

Department of Applied Economics, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. Department of Finance, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. Department of Economics, Emory University d Department of Quantitative Finance,National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan e Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. f Tinbergen Institute, The Nethe...

Tao Liao1,3, Yan-Ping Chen1,3, Shui-Qing Huang4, Li-Li Tan1, Chang-Qing Li1, Xin-An Huang1, Qin Xu1, Qi Wang2**, Qing-Ping Zeng1** 1Tropical Medicine Institute, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510405, China. 2Clinical Pharmacology Institute, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510405 China. 3Basic Medical Science College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medic...