A forum was held recently in Beijing, as a warm-up event for the upcoming Global Conference on Health Promotion, which is co-organized by WHO and China's National Health and Family Planning Commission on Nov 21 to 24.

The forum, organized by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Global Times, Life Times, and Amway Nutrilite, invited government officials, health education experts, public health researchers and media representatives to delivery speeches and discussed on issues related with health promotion, especially what and how media can contribute to the cause.

Wu Tianhong, the publisher with Life Times, says the public are in need of quality health knowledge, and it is media's responsibility to meet such need.