Abstract:Objective：To explore the strategies and methods in developing Chinese medicine and western medicine simultaneously to promote the development of traditional Chinese medicine（TCM）in tertiary general hospitals. Methods：The clinical departments and management departments in the affiliated hospital of Jiangnan University carried out the work of TCM within the scope of their business competence，such as building management structure，increasing investment in human and financial resources，improving compensation mechanism，promoting appropriate technology，improving service enthusiasm，expanding publicity，assessing content construction etc. to comprehensively support TCM and promote the development of TCM in coordination. Results：The hospital successfully established the national key integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital，and grew up a multi-level group of key integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine specialties，including the national key specialties. Continuous breakthrough has been made in scientific and technological innovation in hospitals. The number of hospital visits continued to increase and the average cost of patients' visits continued to decrease. The influence of the hospital was increased. Conclusions：It is feasible to carry out the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in tertiary general hospitals，which meets the needs of the times，country and the patients，and lays a solid foundation for the development of hospitals.