Zhang Boli (, born 26 February 1948) is a Chinese physician. He is honorary president of

Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (天津中医药大学 in Chinese) is a university in Tianjin, China, under the municipal government. Specialized in traditional Chinese Medicine, it is selected by the Chinese state Double First- ...

and an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

. Zhang is also a delegate to the 11th, 12th, and 13th

National People's Congress The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPC; ), or simply the National People's Congress, is constitutionally the supreme state authority and the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2, ...

. Zhang has made outstanding contributions to

Traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of action ...

(TCM). During the

2003 SARS outbreak 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...

, he used TCM to treat patients. In 2005, he was elected as an academician of the

(CAE). During the 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic, Zhang strongly advised the use of TCM. With the approval of the Central Guidance Team, he and 208 other experts formed a TCM medical team, and started treating patients in Jiangxia Fangcang Hospital,

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province in the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the List of cities in China ...

. His son, Zhang Lei (), is also a physician. Zhang Lei also arrived in Wuhan to fight against the coronavirus, however, the father and son did not meet each other until the epidemic had waned in Wuhan.

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1948 births Living people People from Xingtai 20th-century Chinese physicians 21st-century Chinese physicians Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physicians from Hebei Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners Delegates to the 13th National People's Congress Delegates to the 12th National People's Congress Delegates to the 11th National People's Congress 2002–2004 SARS outbreak {{China-med-bio-stub