It has become one of the major strategic directions to develop translational medicine and realize the stride leap from basic research to clinical application in the national biomedical field. In recent years

both basic and clinical researches of acupuncture and moxibustion have made landmark progress. However

the transformation of acupuncture and moxibustion techniques still faced with many difficulties

such as low conversion rate and high difficulty of transformation. In this article

we mainly made a preliminary discussion on the current situations of acupuncture and moxibustion transformation from the aspects of basic research content

evidence-based medicine and clinical trials

evaluation criteria for the conclusion of scientific research projects and transformation mode

put forward some existing problems in the transformation process

and proposed some corresponding countermeasures to the problems.