Against the backdrop of the deepening of cultural confidence strategy and the inheritance and development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, traditional Chinese medicine culture, as the core carrier of excellent traditional Chinese culture, is not only an important path to cultivate cultural confidence among young people in campus practice, but also an inherent requirement for optimizing campus cultural ecology and serving the national cultural strategy. This article takes cultural confidence as the theoretical perspective and adopts research methods such as literature review and case analysis to systematically explain the multiple meanings of traditional Chinese medicine culture entering schools in inheriting excellent Chinese traditional culture, cultivating cultural confidence among young people, promoting the development of quality education, and promoting the construction of a cultural power; This study comprehensively analyzes the practical challenges of integrating traditional Chinese medicine culture into campus education in terms of policy implementation, curriculum systems, faculty teams, teaching practices and resource allocation, and further delves into their underlying causes including cognitive biases, resource imbalances and systemic deficiencies. Ultimately, targeted and actionable development strategies are proposed from six dimensions: policy guidance, curriculum construction, faculty development, teaching innovation, resource integration, and cultural innovation. The research aims to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for promoting the standardized and long-term development of traditional Chinese medicine culture in schools, assisting in the intergenerational inheritance of excellent Chinese traditional culture and the cultivation of cultural confidence among young people, and laying a solid foundation for the construction of a cultural power.

Xiaoyan Wang. The Significance and Development Strategies of Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture in Schools from the Perspective of Cultural Confidence. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 1: 82-89. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2026.080113.

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