In recent years, China has achieved remarkable results in fighting the COVID-19 by combining Chinese and Western medicine, in which Chinese medicine has played a unique and important role and received global attention. Therefore, the China Foreign Affairs Bureau and China Internet News Center have launched the first installment of "Looking for Answers in China", with the theme of "From Curing the Plague to Fighting the COVID-19 - Why Chinese Medicine"? , reporting the unique contribution of Chinese medicine to the fight against the COVID-19 at home and abroad.
On August 7, 2022, Ivan Sarafanov, a foreign teacher of SIE, as the host of this program, interviewed Academician Zhang Boli, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a famous expert in Chinese internal medicine, a representative of China's fight against COVID-19, and a recipient of the national honorary title of "People's Hero" and "Master of National Medicine" at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.