Southern University College attended The Presidents’ Forum 2024 of the Belt and Road Alliance for Traditional Chinese Medicine. The President of Southern University College (Southern UC), Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. Chuah Joon Huang and Dean of Faculty of Chinese Medicine, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lim Juat Hong participated in The Presidents’ Forum 2024 of the Belt and Road Alliance for Traditional Chinese Medicine on 16th August at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). More than 30 presidents and representatives from traditional medicine-related universities and colleges in mainland China and among the Belt and Road countries and regions gathered at Hong Kong to discuss the internationalisation and modernisation of traditional medicine. Over 300 attendees from more than 60 institutions attended the event, including representatives from the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the HKSAR, Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the HKSAR, the Hong Kong government, and traditional Chinese medicine administrative bureaus and government departments from provinces in mainland China, as well as ambassadors or consuls-general from various countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. Professor Rocky S. Tuan, Vice-Chancellor and President of CUHK, said that the Alliance has been committed to promoting the inheritance and innovation of traditional medicine, integrating it with modern practices and taking it to the world, which resonates with CUHK’s founding mission to combine tradition with modernity and to bridge China and the West. Professor Xu Hongxi, President of the Alliance, delivered a keynote speech on “Opportunities and Challenges of Traditional Medicine Globalisation”. As an engineer, President of Southern University College, Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. Chuah Joon Huang mentioned the application of latest technologies in line with digital transformation such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Data Analytics in TCM, has become a trend to promote the development of TCM. In addition, 25 participating presidents and representatives had in-depth discussions on the internationalisation and modernisation of traditional medicine, the establishment of a new-form university of traditional medicine, and the development of new quality productive forces in traditional medicine, in three round-table sessions.