More than 30 years ago, in order to meet foreign friends’ requests to learn acupuncture, some international organizations asked China to establish an Acupuncture Training Center. On August 2, 1974, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Economic Cooperation and Trade jointly applied to the State Council for guidelines on conducting acupuncture training courses for foreign doctors in China. Approved by the State Council in April 1975, the International Acupuncture Training Center was set up. It was determined as International Acupuncture Research Training Center by U.N.D.P. in 1982 and renamed China Beijing International Acupuncture Training Center (CBIATC) according to No. 281 Document of China Ministry of Health in 1983.

  Since 1975, aimed at popularizing acupuncture in the world, the training center has been working actively to accomplish the task, “to perfect the ways of acupuncture training and provide more opportunities for foreign doctors”, assigned by WHO. According to statistics, so far the training center has provided the training in acupuncture, Chinese traditional medicine , Qigong, etc. for over 10,000 medical workers from 106 countries and regions.

  The expert teachers of CBIATC have been invited for acupuncture teaching, medical practice, and academic exchanges to Germany, Norway, U.S.A, Great Britain, Japan, France, Switzerland, and Holland, etc. The translators have undertaken important tasks of translation and interpretation for international conferences sponsored by the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM) and for the leaders of the Ministry of Health and SATCM in visiting foreign countries.