Cui Li, vice-minister of the National Health and Family Commission (NHFPC), attended the 2017 national conference on health emergency responses in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 13.

Cui said that the health emergency work has made many improvements in the past year. She deemed it vital that health departments at all levels should carry out skill competitions for health emergency responses; push forward the constructions for emergency response systems and medical bases; strengthen the health emergency response abilities of Belt and Road regions; and further the cooperation with the international community.  

Cui stressed that all health departments should also strengthen emergency medical rescue methods and the prevention and control of public health emergencies. In particular, local departments should strengthen H7N9 prevention and control to safeguard people's health.  

Officials and representatives from health departments at all levels also took part in the conference.