JIN Yi-qiang was b in September 1932 in Changsha, Hunan Province. He was educated in Hunan Medical University and graduated in 1956. He studied in the first TCM Training Class for West Physicians in Hunan TCM College and graduated in 1961. He worked in the TCM department and the Institute of Integrated TCM & West Medicine (WM) in the Affiliated Xiangya Hospital, Hunan Medical University ever since, where he has been engaged in the intal medicine of Integrated TCM and WM for 43 years (including teaching, clinical practice and research work). He became a professor at 1987, and works as tutor for inheriting the experience of veteran TCM experts in China, tutor of postgraduates, director of research department, and deputy director of the institute. Meanwhile, he is the standing director of the Chinese Association of Integrated TCM & WM, the vice director of the Chinese Association of Trace Elemental Science, a member of New Drug Assessment Committee in Hunan Province and the editor of the Joal of Integrated TCM & WM.