[Tendency, features and cultural background of modern medicine in China]

The new tendency and features of development of medicine in modern China is discussed on the social and cultural background, which bears a dual character of both advancement and backwardness. By analysing the features of modern Chinese civilization, it is emphasized that modern China's medicine was developed on an extremely complex social and cultural background. It was not only restricted within the cultural framework but also governed by the intrinsic rule of medicine itself. This paper also mentions the five features and three tendencies of medicine based on historical facts, which reflects definitely the objective rules of modern Chinese medicine. It is these rules that links premodern and modern medicine. The work of contemporary China is in line with these rules.