Chinese Medical Journal
ASSOCIATION NEWS
DR. FU LIEN-CHANG AWARDED ORDER OF LIBERATION, FIRST CLASS
Chairman Mao Tse-Tung has conferred the Order of - Liberation, First Class on Dr. Fu Lien-Chang, President of the Chinese Medical Association. We rejoice that Dr. Fu has been so honored. He has richly earned this recognition of his unceasing devotion for thirty years in the service of the People’s Liberation Army and the people’s health. He is indeed an example to all our members.
DR. WU YING-K’AI MADE HONORARY MEMBER OF THE U.S.S.R. SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY OF SURGEONS
Dr. Wu Ying-K’ai was elected honorary member of the U.S.S.R. Scientific
Society of Surgeons at the Twenty-Sixth Congress of Surgeons of the U.S.S.R. for —
his outstanding contributions to the science of medicine. We heartily congratulate Dr. Wu on this well-merited honor.
THE TENTH GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHINESE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
The Tenth General Conference of the Chinese Medical Association will be held in August this year. The main object of the meeting is to decide how we can best exert our efforts in socialist transformation and socialist construction. We shall have to consider, in the academic field, the problems of raising the standard of medical knowledge, learning from the advanced experience of Soviet medicine and the promotion of scientific research, and, politically, the implementation of the policy of further developing traditional Chinese medicine and advancing the unity and co-operation among physicians of traditional and western medicine.
The program of the conference in brief will be as follows:
Address by the President on the activities of the Association in recent years. Adoption of resolutions on the future work and plans of the Association. Papers on traditional Chinese medicine; tuberculous diseases; parasitic diseases, particularly schistosomiasis, kala-azar and paragonimiasis; and papers of the other scientific sections.
4. Reyision of the Constitution.
5. Blection of officers.
6. Scientific and technical exhibits.
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As the business of the present meeting deals mainly with the work and plans of the Chinese Medical Association, guests from abroad will be invited not to this but to our next general conference.
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