Chinese Medical Association

The Chinese Medical Association (CMA) is a non-profit registered academic and commonwealth corporate body voluntarily formed by Chinese medical science and technology professionals, and an important social force in the development of medical science and technology in China.

The CMA, established in 1915, now has 85 specialized societies under its umbrella, covering all medical fields. The CMA has a membership of about 430,000, and publishes 118 medical journals, one medical information newsletter and one popular magazine. The CMA is closely related to the local medical associations in the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. The CMA Office is in Beijing.

The CMA missions include uniting medical professionals, upholding medical ethics, and advocating social integrity. It operates with democratic principles, supports freedom of scholarship, and seeks to raise technical skills of the medical professionals. It promotes the prosperity and development of medical science and technology, and the popularization of medical science and technology knowledge. It promotes the growth of medical science and technology work forces and the integration of medical science and technology with China’s economic development. All the missions are for the purpose of providing services for its members and for medical professionals, for the health of the Chinese people, and for the modernization of China.

Work scopes of the CMA include: organizing academic exchange programs on medical science and technology, publishing medical journals and electronic audio-visual products, promoting international academic exchange programmes, carrying out continuing medical education projects, organizing technical appraisal of medical projects, selecting and presenting awards for excellence in medical and technological research and publications, finding, recommending and training outstanding medical talents, organizing technical assessment of medical incidents, undertaking projects entrusted by the government, promoting transformation and practical application of medical research results, and relaying suggestions and requests from the medical professionals to the government and serving as an important linkage between medical circles and the government.

China Anti-Cancer Association

The China Anti-Cancer Association (CACA), founded in 1985, has a mission to unite people involved in all branches of oncology and others with a similar interest in fighting cancer.

The association’s main activities include national academic conferences, publishing oncology journals and public gazettes, and continuing professional education for oncologists at different levels. Another mission of CACA is to build counseling services and specific medical supply programmes for those in need. In addition, CACA develops proposals for cancer research and cancer control with the government departments involved that reflect the requests and demands of oncologists.

Globally, the association is interested in organizing academic meetings with international colleagues in order to cultivate friendly ties with overseas oncology organizations and individuals.