On August 30, Guangdong announced on a conference that 7 public medical institutions in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai will start to recruit 12 traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners from the Hong Kong and Macao SARs.
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These 7 institutions include Guangdong Province Traditional Chinese Medical Hospital (including Zhuhai Branch), Guangdong Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shenzhen Bao’an Authentic Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapy Hospital, and the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Development in Guangming District, Shenzhen.
Qualified TCM practitioners are required to be permanent residents of the Hong Kong and Macao SARs, and possess recognized qualifications to practice on the Chinese mainland under the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). Meanwhile, they must love their cities and the country, have a good character and a professional background that suits the job offer.
Zhu Haidong, an official with the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that since the Construction Plan for the Chinese Medicine Highlands in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (2020-2025) (hereinafter reffed to as “The Plan”) was published in October, 2020, starting the pilot scheme in Guangdong is of great importance.
Recruitment notices of each institution will be published on its official website before August 31. Deadline of the recruitment procedures will be before September 20, with vetting process to be finished before September 30. Results will come out before October 15.
The pilot scheme, as part of the specific measures under “The Plan”, has clarified the benefits for Hong Kong and Macao’s practitioners offered by those institutions for the first time.
The scheme provides Hong Kong and Macao’s practitioners with the diagnosis and treatment environment of GBA’s public medical institutions. It also enables them to join master-student education and continuing education, thus cultivating TCM talent in the two SARs and deepening exchanges and cooperation within the Greater Bay Area.
Author | Huang Yanting (intern)
Editor | Monica, Hannah, Jerry
