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Vice Premier Highlights Importance of Preventive Medicine for Public Health

Posted on: Thursday, 28 July 2005, 09:00 CDT

Vice premier highlights importance of preventive medicine for public health

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi has called for whole society to help guarantee public health by promoting public health policy and preventive medicine.

The vice premier praised the China Preventive Medicine Association (CPMA) for its vital contribution to public health at its Fourth Congress. In recent years, the country has achieved greater strides in the building of a public medical service system based on the emergency responses to accidents in the public health sector, the prevention and control of diseases, and public health law-enforcement, Wu said.

To speed up the reform of the health sector and vigorous development of public health, the vice-premier acknowledged, joint efforts from the entire society are required, and CPMA should make its due contribution in this regard.

The CPMA, founded in 1987, now has more than 70,000 members and 38 branches and special committees.

More than 500 people attended the congress, including He Luli and Han Qide, chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and Zhang Kehui, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS

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