The 2017 national conference on disease prevention and control was held in Shenzhen from Feb 23 to 24. 

Li Bin, minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) gave a keynote instruction on the conference. Wang Guoqiang, vice-minister of the NHFPC attended the conference and delivered a speech.  

Li praised China's health departments' achievements in diseases prevention and control in the past year, "Local medical staff stuck their posts and did their best to prevent and control contagious diseases, endemic diseases, parasitic diseases, chronic diseases and mental diseases in local areas, improving people's health conditions." 

She hoped that medical staff at all level can further carry out "Healthy China" strategy, improve the diseases prevention and control system and upgrade the quality of public health services, keeping people away from diseases.

Wang said that during the past year, the top health authorities released special plans for critical diseases prevention and control and the national immunization plan was further improved. 

"In 2017, the health departments at all levels should implement the policies of vaccine circulation supervision and vaccine inoculation, strengthen the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, push forward chronic diseases prevention and control, improve metal health services and upgrade diseases prevention and control system," Wang specified the key works of this year.