Abstract: In the early days of the founding of New China, under the guidance of the reasonable social needs of the people and the strong policy of "improving and developing traditional Chinese medicine", the Party and the government implemented the policy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) apprenticeship, which is the first time in Chinese history to carry out traditional Chinese medicine talent training in the way of national will. The implementation of the policy eased the urgent need of the society for TCM talents to a certain extent in a short period of time. At the same time, during the process of implementation, the health administrative departments at all levels, by timely correcting the unreasonable target setting of training quantity, emphasized the transformation of training methods from diversity to consistency, pursued the diversification and strictness of graduation assessment, and realized the final implementation of the policy on the use of graduates. It has laid a psychological, social and practical foundation for the succession of traditional Chinese medicine education.