The 3rd World Integrative Medicine Congress was held in Guangzhou,China,from September 22 to 24, 2007,sponsored by the Chinese Association of the Integrative Medicine and co-organized by Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine,Guangdong Integrative Medicine Association and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.The mottos of the congress was"Inheritance,Innovation, Harmonization,and Development".