The internationalisation of Chinese Medicine presents both opportunities and challenges, and one of the major challenges is meeting expectations of evidence-based clinical practice. Evidence generation, evaluation and translation require effective application of both Chinese medicine theory and rigorous clinical research methodologies. Currently, high level clinical evidence in Chinese medicine is extremely limited. To support the global development of Chinese medicine, we have developed a whole evidence approach that incorporate evidence of all levels, including records from classical Chinese medicine literature to systematically evaluate and summarise the best available evidence of Chinese medicine for 29 commonly treated clinical conditions. These evidence monographs have been published in English by the World Scientific Publishing in Singapore and the Chinese version by the People's Health Publishing House in China through a successful partnership in China. I will share with you what we have learnt and how this may help identifying clinical research priorities that will further contribute to the evidence-based Chinese medicine development globally.
