Shi Xuemin
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Shi Xuemin was born in June 1938 in Tianjin Municipality and is of Han ethnicity. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a chief physician and a professor, and an expert who receives special government allowances from the State Council. After graduating in 1962 in traditional Chinese medicine from the Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, he joined the First Affiliated Hospital of the college, today the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where he has worked ever since. He researches the acupuncture treatment of stroke, founded the Xingnao Kaiqiao (awakening the brain and opening the orifices) needling method and created the concept of acupuncture manipulation dosimetry, which has been widely applied in the treatment of various difficult conditions. He has published more than forty works, including Zhongyi Gangmu (Outline of Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Shi Xuemin's Acupuncture and Moxibustion. He is currently honorary president of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has worked to take acupuncture to the world.
Honors & Recognition
He is a representative bearer of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He directed the completion of 43 projects, including National 973 Programme projects, and received 34 scientific research awards at provincial or ministerial level and above, including the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He was named one of the second group of National Masters of Chinese Medicine by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and an instructor in the national programme for inheriting the academic experience of veteran Chinese medicine experts by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has trained more than a hundred doctoral and master's students in China and abroad.
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