@article {164626,
	title = {Pioneering a great undertaking, glorifying acupuncture worldwide: brief on WANG Xue-tai{\textquoteright}s academic thought.},
	journal = {Zhongguo zhen jiu = Chinese acupuncture \& moxibustion},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2021},
	month = {2021/11/12/},
	pages = {1191 - 6},
	abstract = {WANG Xue-tai is a famous scholar of acupuncture-moxibustion of TCM, one of the founders of Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibusiton, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, the director of the second-term leadership of Institute, as well as the representative inheritor of "acupuncture" in the national intangible cultural heritage project. The academic and administrative achievement of professor WANG Xue-tai has been systematically reviewed in this paper. His academic thought and contributions are summarized as: clarifying the source of acupuncture-moxibustion development and laying the foundation of academic history research of acupuncture-moxibustion; emphasizing moxibustion techniques and promoting new acupuncture techniques; maintaining the characteristics of acupuncture-moxibustion to improve clinical therapeutic effect; advocating the standardization of acupuncture-moxibustion to promote its internationalization; and insisting on inheritance and innovation to enhance the modernization of acupuncture-moxibusiton of TCM.},
	isbn = {0255-2930},
	author = {Jia, Chun-Sheng and Wang, Rui-Qing and Liu, Wei-Hong}
}
