It is the historical mission of and the new era requirement for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) colleges and universities to construct a quality culture centered on the elements of quality first

student-orientedness

pursuit of excellence and Chinese characteristics

to achieve high-quality and connotative development

and to cultivate TCM talents with virtue plus competence urgently needed by the country. TCM colleges and universities should take the transformation and reform of higher education as an opportunity to construct a quality culture system with Chinese characteristics from the perspectives of values

Chinese characteristics

management philosophy

ethics and morality

and rules and regulations for education quality

create a new modus for quality culture development in relevant colleges and universities

and solve the problems of tool transformation from theoretical model into practical example through case studies

guidance

optimization and integration. Based on that

we can construct a practical paradigm for improving the quality of TCM colleges and universities led by the quality culture for new development by innovating quality with reform in higher education as the opportunity

consolidating quality of undergraduate education as the foundation

developing quality with unique talents as the root

leading quality with moral requirements as the benchmark

implementing quality with system improvement as the support

expressing quality with behavior guidance as the reflection

and improving quality with facility construction as the basis.