The development of Chinese medicine and Western medicine andrology is based on different social background and academic systems

either Chinese medicine or Western medicine andrology has their limitations

therefore

integration of Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM) andrology is in a great need. After more than 30 years of development

andrology has made great achievements in the construction of specialized academic association

holding academic conferences and publication of academic monographs

and the research progress on this field is mainly in the combination of disease and syndrome

microdifferentiation of symptoms and signs and basic research development. However

the comprehensive theoretic system of ICWM andrology has not yet established

and the related studies are still on the primary stage. In the future studies

great efforts still need to be made to expand the methods for the investigation of ICWM

and make innovations in the field of andrology.