Different from others who resisted passively,a few insightful people took the initiative to improve TCM by reference to Western medicine system when facing the challenges from modern Western medicine in technology and system. The TCM Improvement Research Society of Shanxi Province in modern China was set up to achieve this goal. The experimental method was introduced and classification and divisions were also done. The TCM education institutions were opened,meanwhile,the modern scientific Hospital of TCM was established. The academic journal "...