Chapter 309 - A Shocking Donation (1/2)

Chapter 309 A Shocking Donation“Then I’ll give you my opinion.” Qin Haodong looked at the audience and said, “For the next step of the Chinese Medicine Practitioner Association, I’d like to put forward three points for the time being.

The first one is to improve our internal communication. Mr. Gao just said that we have had internal exchanges before, but they are only limited to the exchange of experience between each other. They are not focused on improving each other’s medical skills.

What I want to say is that, we all need to share our own unique skills. At least, some of them should be shared for others to learn from them, so that we can really improve the medical skills of each one of us. Only when our medical skills are improved, will the development of traditional Chinese medicine not be empty talk.”

As he said this, everyone present went silent. Although everyone agreed with Qin Haodong, people were selfish. Some old Chinese medicinal treatments were secret prescriptions handed down in families from generation to generation and were not passed on to outsiders at all. How could they be shared?

Gao Fengwen frowned slightly. In his opinion, Qin Haodong’s idea was too naive and impractical. Many Chinese doctors thought that their secret recipes were more important than their lives. How could they take them out and share them with others?

Qin Haodong said, “I know what you are thinking. Traditional Chinese medicine belongs to everyone. As long as you share these unique skills, the whole country will benefit. Of course, I don’t want you to make contributions for free.

I’d like to set up an evaluation team with Mr. Gao and some other people. After you share a secret treatment, we will evaluate it and give you financial compensation based on its value. The minimum compensation will be 10,000 yuan, and the maximum could be 1 million yuan.”

The audience went into an uproar. No one had expected that the young president would give such a big compensation right after taking office. This huge reward was enough to make everyone excited. However, they knew all about the foundation of the Chinese Medicine Practitioner Association. Even the site they used was borrowed. How could they have the money to pay this reward?

Qin Haodong then said, “As the president, I’ll set an example. I have a Yin-Yang Acupuncture treatment here. I’m willing to give it to the Chinese Medicine Practitioner Association for free. After the meeting, I’ll print it and give each of you a manual.”

“What? Yin-Yang Acupuncture?”

Gao Fengwen and the others were shocked by Qin Haodong’s words. When they heard about Qin Haodong’s Yin-Yang Acupuncture, they immediately opened their mouths in surprise.

As old Chinese medicine practitioners, all of them had heard of the reputation of Yin-Yang Acupuncture. It was definitely one of the top five acupuncture methods in the history of Chinese traditional medicine. Although it was very effective to balance Yin-Yang and dredge meridians, this technique had been lost for many years. No one had expected that Qin Haodong would have this acupuncture method, let alone that he would share it with everyone for free!

“This exchange is just an idea of mine. Let’s discuss it later.” Qin Haodong then said, “My second idea is to establish a school of traditional Chinese medicine. If we want to develop traditional Chinese medicine, it is certainly not enough to rely on elders alone. Even if you can do it well, after ten or twenty years, when you die, who will we rely on? The development of traditional Chinese medicine has to rely on the younger generation!

Thus, if we want to develop traditional Chinese medicine, we must lay a good foundation and train young people.”

This time, Gao Fengwen said, “President, these two suggestions are good, but they all require money. Our association does not have any funds. How can we give out rewards? How can we establish a school?”

The others were also deprecating these ideas. Although they agreed with Qin Haodong, the idea of encouraging everyone to come out with their own unique skills by rewarding them was very novel. The association didn’t have enough money. Without money, this was all just a fantasy.

Qin Haodong smiled and said, “The third point I want to mention is making money. Both the Chinese Medicine Practitioner Association and everyone here need money. No one can live without money, so making money is the most basic thing we need.

Profit is the key to the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Both for the development of a country and an industry, an economic basis is indispensable.”

Zhong Sihai said, “But how can we make money? Can we change our volunteering visits to patients to fee-based ones?”

“Of course we can’t do that. We need to do more volunteering visits in the future,” Qin Haodong said, “There are two main ways for the association to make money. First, it is not possible to turn everyone’s medical skills into money as soon as possible by practicing medicine alone.

If anyone has a valuable prescription like the Blood Revival Pill, Tangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine Company will help mass-produce it. 80% of the profits will be given to the owner of the prescription and 20% to the Chinese Medicine Practitioner Association.”

This proposal made an impression on everyone’s minds. They all admired Qin Haodong for this method. In other words, Tangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine Company would contribute to the Chinese Medicine Practitioner Association for free, which meant that Qin Haodong would make donations to the Chinese Medicine Practitioner Association.

Gao Fengwen said, “President Qin, this is a good idea, but it’s a long-term plan. We can’t make profit for the time being. What’s your second suggestion?”

Qin Haodong said, “The second way would be to let some rich people who love traditional Chinese medicine donate money to our association. When we have a start-up fund, we can set up the school of traditional Chinese medicine, go to the TV station to give some health lectures, and start some health classes at the school so that we can be self-sufficient.”

“Donations?” Gao Fengwen smiled bitterly. “Doctor Qin, to tell you the truth, I have tried this in the past few years, but many people are not optimistic about the traditional Chinese medicine industry. No one is willing to donate to us.”

The others were also disappointed. Donations were too unreliable. Who would donate to traditional Chinese medicine these days?

Suddenly, Qin Haodong’s cell phone rang in his pocket.

“Sorry, I’ll take this call first!”

As he spoke, he pressed the answer button. On the other side of the line, he heard Old Maldini’s rough Celestial Empire accent.

“Dear Doctor Qin, how are you?”

“Not bad, Old Maldini. How are you?”