Cui Li, vice-minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), met with Czech vice-ministers of health Radek Policar and Roman Prymula, on May 15in Beijing.

Cui highly appraised Sino-Czech relations, in which health cooperation continues to deepen with further progression of the Belt and Road Initiative.

"China and the Czech Republic have cooperated in clinical medicine, infectious diseases prevention and control, traditional medicine, staff training and rehabilitation, which is the fruit of a strong Sino-Czech friendship," Cui said.

Policar and Prymula praised China's leading role in health cooperation with the Czech Republic and other central and eastern European countries, and were notably delighted to see the two countries' further cooperation in emergency medicine and vaccine research and development.