Deputy head of China's national health watchdog body met with a visiting delegation from Taiwan in the afternoon of Oct 20 in Beijing.

Cui Li (right), vice minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, meets with the head of a Taiwan medical management association in Beijing on Oct 20.

Cui Li, vice minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), welcomed the delegation led by Xie Wuji, head of an association of medical management.

Cui spoke highly of the association's achievements in promoting exchanges in the health sector across the Taiwan Straits.

She said that both sides should expand exchanges and cooperation in the health sector and make contributions to the health and well-being of people from both sides.

The minister talked about the national meeting on public health held in September and briefly discussed health reforms on the Chinese mainland.

Xie said over the past few years, exchanges and training of medical personnel across the Straits has improved. New progress was made in hospital management, medical quality, and people-to-people exchanges.

The Taiwan association is willing to play a bigger role in personnel training and share more experience with the Chinese mainland, according to Xie.