About Zhineng Qigong

Zhineng Qigong was developed by Professor Pang Ming in 1980. Professor Pang is a practitioner of both traditional Chinese and western medicine in China. He combined the best of Chinese virtues and principles, traditional Qigong practices, and knowledge in sciences, medicine and philosophy to create Zhineng Qigong. It is a new set of Qigong practices that enrich and promote better flow of Qi in human body.

Zhineng Qigong captures and retains key functions and benefits of traditional Qigong practices such as healing illnesses, maintaining body fitness, developing human ability and longevity. The practice of Zhineng Qigong may strengthen human's mental power and develop extraordinary mental abilities. Besides spreading the doctrines of traditional Qigong that place emphasis on improvement of physical and mental health, Zhineng Qigong also leads in the modernisation of traditional Qigong.

The Chinese character, zhi 智 means wisdom and intelligence, a synthesis of functions performed by minds in dealing with external matters. Neng 能 means human ability in both physical and spiritual aspects. Hence, Zhineng Qigong is regarded as a set of Qigong practice through which human intelligence may be developed, and human ability may be enhanced. It helps to enhance our intelligence as well as developing super-intelligence.

Professor Dr Pang Ming -
Master and Founder of Zhineng Qigong

Pang Ming alias Pang He-Ming was born in September 1940 in Dingxin county of Hebei Province of the People's Republic of China. He is the originator of Zhineng Qigong Science and the founder of Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Center, which is the world's largest medication-free hospital in China. Professor Pang's works in Zhineng Qigong were nurtured and influenced by the practices of traditional Chinese Medicine, especially acupunctures, health and wellness-maintenance, as well as traditional qigong and martial arts trainings, from a young age.

In 1958, he graduated from Beijing Medical College and practised Western Medicine specializing in Internal Medicine. Soon after that, he pursued his study in Chinese Medicine at the Beijing Chinese Medicine Association until 1962 and subsequently practised both Western and Chinese medicine in China. It was during his study at the Beijing Chinese Medicine Association that he developed a strong interest in Qigong and started to conduct research in this area. During the early years of his research works, he focused mainly on the study of Buddhist-Qigong, traditional Chinese martial arts philosophy and practices. Since 1970, he followed the teachings of traditional Qigong teachers, and studied Taoism Qigong. In the late 1970s, he decided to concentrate his works on the teaching and training of Qigong, and in promoting wholesome lifestyle to the public.

In 1979, Professor Pang Ming, together with a group of Qigong practitioners and researchers, formed the Beijing Qigong Research Society in Beijing, China. The society was the first public organization for anyone who is interested in the science of Qigong. The society had generated a number of national reports on Qigong practices. Through many years of research and self-practice, Professor Pang had developed many new sets of Qigong. In 1980, he completed the Theory of Zhineng Qigong that becomes the fundamental principles of the teachings and practices of Zhineng Qigong today. He combined the best of Chinese traditional values and principles, and Qigong's practices (such as Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, medicine, martial arts and the flow-pattern of 'Qi' in nature), and adopted knowledge in sciences, medicine and philosophy, to create Zhineng Qigong. It is a new set of Qigong practices that enrich and promote better flow of Qi in the human body.

In 1987, Professor Pang was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Faculty of Eastern Sports at Nanding Day University. There, he specialized and taught the undergraduate program in Zhineng Qigong. Two years later, he set up Hebei Shijiazhuang Zhineng Qigong College (later renamed Hebei Huaxia Zhineng Training Centre). In 1990, he set up Hebei Huaxia ZhiNeng Qigong Recovery Centre and Hebei Huaxia ZhiNeng Qigong Research Centre. Since then, Professor Pang had trained more than three hundred thousand practitioners in Zhineng Qigong. Today, millions of people have joined Zhineng Qigong trainings.

Professor Pang has also authored a number of books and published a large number of scholarly research papers on Qigong. Some examples of these publications are, 'Fundamental of Qigong Science - Holistic Hun Yuan Theory', 'Elementary Teaching in Zhineng Qigong', 'Basic Zhineng Qigong Training', 'Modern Scientific Concept of Zhineng Qigong' , 'An Introduction to Qigong History in China' and 'Qigong and Humanity' , 'Journal of Qigong Science', and 'Super intelligence - The Technique of Zhineng Qigong Science'.

Professor Pang's works were rated top among all traditional Chinese health - complementary practices. In 1998 he received the Certificate of Approval from China National Sports Council's Qigong Exercise Evaluation Committee, the first person to receive an endorsement from a national body in China