Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable common disease characterized by persistent airflow limitation, usually progressive, and associated with a chronic abnormal inflammatory response of the airways and lungs to harmful particles or gases. Patients with what was originally referred to as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and advanced asthma with airflow obstruction are now mostly included in the category of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for standardized diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation efforts. According to the World Health Organization, about 2.74 million people died of COPD in 2002, ranking the fourth cause of death in the world; by 2020, COPD will become the third leading cause of death in the world, ranking the fifth economic burden in the world. According to the survey of Chinese Medical Association, the prevalence of COPD in China is 8.2% in people over 40 years old, and the number of people with disabilities is 5-10 million and the number of deaths is 1 million every year. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common respiratory disease and multi-morbidity, and currently there are 50 million patients in China who are facing low diagnosis and control rates because of insufficient awareness. Therefore, the World Health Organization has designated the third Wednesday of November as “World Chronic Obstructive Lung Day” to promote and educate people around the world, with the aim of raising public awareness of the disease, improving prevention and control, and improving people’s health. This year, the 11th World Chronic Lung Disease Day will be held on November 14, and the theme is “Breathing Difficult, Not Helpless”. The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) is a worldwide guideline for the prevention and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It was first published in April 2001 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the World Health Organization, and is updated annually with the latest advances and published on the official website http://www.goldcopd.org/上向全球公布. The latest version of the GOLD guidelines, also known as the Shanghai guidelines, was announced at the Asia-Pacific Respiratory Conference in Shanghai in November 2011, and for the first time established the prognosis-centered principles and judgment criteria for the prevention and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, proposing that in addition to the grading of lung function, acute exacerbations of COPD, quality of life scores and mobility are closely related to the long-term prognosis of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, thus proposing comprehensive judgment indicators and prevention and treatment strategies. In view of this, Chinese medicine also has many good relevance points in the new prevention and treatment strategies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which can alleviate patients’ symptoms, reduce the risk of acute exacerbations, improve quality of life, reduce mitigating complications, and ultimately improve patients’ prognosis effectively. Specific TCM methods of Chinese medicine for prevention and treatment are: 1. Chinese medicine tonics for evidence-based treatment: through reasonable formulae, improve the symptoms of cough, phlegm and asthma, and improve the deficiency of internal organs of lung, spleen and kidney. It is suitable for the control of symptoms in the acute exacerbation period and the physical improvement in the remission stabilization period. 2.Ointment formula for tonic: Ointment formula can clearly improve the patient’s physique, adjust the imbalance of yin and yang qi and blood of the patient’s muscles, and improve the patient’s ability to resist diseases, such as Cordyceps sinensis, mealybug, hashish, aconite, deer horn gum, turtle board gum, etc. are commonly used tonic drugs. On the basis of traditional tonic, modern poultices are formulated by experienced physicians according to the principle of diagnosis and treatment into the herbal medicine to improve the symptoms, which can obviously control the respiratory symptoms and improve the mobility. 3.Acupuncture point dressing: At specific acupuncture points (Lung Yu, Kidney Yu, Tian Yu, etc.), a reasonable formula is chosen according to the yin and yang of the physique, cold and heat, together with the topical application of Chinese medicine to strengthen the transdermal absorption of drugs, to adjust the physique and control the symptoms, which can reduce acute exacerbation and improve the quality of life. 4.Acupoint injection: At specific acupuncture points (foot three li, etc.), choose Chinese medicine injection (asthma can cure injection, Astragalus injection, Danshen injection, etc.) according to the characteristics of the physique to carry out physique adjustment, improve the ability to prevent and resist disease, and mediate the immune imbalance, which can reduce the symptoms of wheezing and reduce the occurrence of acute exacerbation of slow obstructive pulmonary disease. 5.Embedding of acupuncture points: Embedding of lamb’s intestine thread in specific acupuncture points to carry out gentle and benign stimulation of acupuncture points for a longer period of time to improve patients’ immune ability and reduce acute exacerbation. 6.Chinese medicine fumigation and aerosolization: It can improve the performance of sputum thickening in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, make the airway smooth through the removal of sputum, reduce airflow obstruction, and reduce acute exacerbation. 7.Respiratory rehabilitation exercise: Through the unique respiratory rehabilitation exercise exercises of TCM (the 12th Five-Year Special Tackling Plan of the National Chinese Medicine Administration), the Six Characters, the Five Animal Play with the Five Sounds Exercise, etc., the respiratory function of patients can be improved. 8.Winter disease and summer treatment: In the summer three volt season, using the natural Yang heat, acupuncture point compresses, acupuncture point injections and Chinese medicine tonics and other treatments can improve the patient’s physique, reduce recurrent infections and alleviate wheezing symptoms. 9, winter disease winter treatment: in the winter three ninth season, it is in the good season of slow obstructive pulmonary and so on, timely seasonal Chinese medicine soup, Chinese medicine plaster, acupoint compress, acupoint injection and other treatments to prevent acute aggravation, reduce wheezing symptoms. In addition to improving symptoms, reducing acute attacks, improving pulmonary ventilation and improving quality of life, Chinese medicine is also effective in preventing and treating the common complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, such as reducing depression, improving body weight and reducing osteoporosis. The above-mentioned special treatment methods of Chinese medicine for prevention and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can be flexibly combined to achieve the best therapeutic effect, and these treatment programs are currently carried out in the pulmonary departments of Shuguang Hospital and other major tertiary Chinese medicine hospitals in Shanghai. The State also attaches great importance to the prevention and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Chinese medicine. In the National 12th Five-Year Plan, two research projects have been designated to improve the efficacy of TCM in the prevention and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, one of which is to improve the physical constitution by tonifying the spleen and stomach to delay the occurrence and development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The second is a special TCM lung function rehabilitation exercise from tonifying the kidneys and nourishing the qi to slow down the decline of lung function. The Department of Pulmonary Diseases of Shuguang Hospital has participated in the above two research studies, and the current mid-term summary of the subject has shown satisfactory efficacy, and the final research results will be officially announced in 2014.