Guests and medical fund donors pose for a group photo after the seminar, June 27, 2015. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Liu Yanzhu, the founder of the Acupuncture Corporation of America, is one of thousands of Chinese TCM promoters working in the United States.

Liu, researcher and postdoctor of Colombia University, who was also a third generation successor of Guo's medical thoughts, talked about the mission and urgency to promote TCM abroad.

He said the general public in the US has started to accept TCM therapies as acupuncture turns out to be a more effective way to cure diseases.

"It's a great obligation for TCM practitioners abroad to shoulder the responsibility of promoting TCM and serving people around the world with highly qualified and standardized Chinese medicines and therapies," said Liu.

A medical fund in the name of Guo Shikui was founded during the seminar in a bid to promote, develop and inherit Guo's academic thoughts of activating blood and removing stasis.