Apprentice Ceremony of foreign Chinese Medicine practitioners aspired to become TCM emissaries

   At the apprentice ceremony, four outstanding students from different countries, such as Germany, Holland and France that have a passion for TCM, were officially awarded along with their individual TCM masters and famous physicians, including Zhao Buchang, Dong Hongguang, Liu Zhongyi and Gu Shaofeng to act as emissaries in promoting the TCM culture in the future. Among them, Christine Masseli from Germany and Arvin Kuipers from Holland, two students from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, expressed their hopes and dreams to provide better treatment for patients through the combination of traditional natural therapies from Europe and Traditional Chinese Medicine methods. Emilie Masson from France, a very capable osteopath, hopes to stay in China in the future to follow her dream of doing more in-depth research of European and Chinese bone setting therapy. Cecile Chabot, who is also from France, has a different educational background compared to the other aforementioned three students as she received a diploma in Mechanical Engineering, but resolutely abandoned work and headed from the West to the East to devote herself to medicine and ended up practicing traditional Chinese massage and Qigong along with other TCM practitioners. Considered as the first apprentices of the “Silk Road TCM Emissary Initiative”, they will continue their practice with their individual senior TCM masters in order to achieve a more in-depth understanding of the TCM culture as well as traditional therapy methods, and will act as emissaries in promoting TCM all over the world.

   Zhang Wenkang, Chairman of the forum and former Minister of Health of China presided over the Apprentice ceremony

   Zhao Buchang, Honorary Chairman of Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals, in a talk with his new apprentice Emilie Masson from France

   Arvin Kuipers from Holland, a student at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, along with Zhang Wenkang and his TCM master Liu Zhongyi

   Gu Shaofeng along with his apprentice Christine Masseli from Germany, who is currently studying at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

   Dong Hongguang, President of the Swiss Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, along with his apprentice Cecile Chabot from France