Three-month-old baby bears play at a wild animal park in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Wong Campion/File Photo
BEIJING (Reuters) - Traditional Chinese medicine risks extinction if there is a push by the government to completely replace the wild animal parts now used with substitutes, a senior Chinese lawmaker said on Saturday.
China, where an animal-loving middle class has been trying to change old ways, has promoted substitutes for tiger bones, rhino horns and certain other wild animal products, but doubts persist about their usefulness even among some officials.
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