On October 13-17, 2016, the special conference of “Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine” was held in Washington DC, USA. There were more than 300 people attending this conference. Most of the participants were American physicians, and approximately 1/3 of participants were acupuncturists. The chairperson of this conference was Eben Alexandier III, MD. Dr. Decheng Chen was awarded with Integrative Medicine Contribution Prize in this conference. He issued a speech to the conference.