An introduction to the Patriotic Health Work

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Updated: 2014-07-15

• Main Results of the Patriotic Health Work in Recent Years

First, remarkable achievements have been achieved in building hygiene units. In order to implement the Decision of the State Council to Strengthen Patriotic Health Work, facilitate the construction of urban infrastructure and improve the level of health management, after the approval of leaders of the State Council, the NPHCC promoted the initiative of “Building the National Hygiene City” in 1989.

In 1997, the NPHCC promoted the initiative of “Building the National Hygiene Town (County Seat).”

In 2000, the NPHCC promoted the initiative of “Building the National Hygiene District in Municipalities.” At the local level, activities such as building the provincial hygiene city, provincial hygiene district, provincial hygiene town and provincial hygiene sub-district, were also launched. The work of building hygiene units has been implemented by following the principle of setting models and focusing on “creating.” Great efforts have been made to solve hygiene problems that impact public health in back streets, old city districts, villages within cities, suburbs linking urban and rural areas, farm markets and small businesses. Efforts have also been made to guide local governments to improve the level of urban management and promote the equalization of public services. As a result, the overall competitiveness of the cities has been enhanced and such efforts have been welcomed by the general public. Local Party committees and governments have been attaching great importance to such activities. So far, the NPHCC has named 153 “National Hygiene Cities,” 32 “National Hygiene Districts” and 653 “National Hygiene Towns (County Seats)”.

Second, the clean-up campaign to improve environmental hygiene in urban and rural areas has achieved preliminary results. In the April 2010 plenary session of the NPHCC, it was decided that a clean-up campaign to improve environmental hygiene in urban and rural areas would be carried out. Governments and relevant departments at all levels throughout the country attached great importance to this campaign, which was viewed as an important platform through which the environmental hygiene in urban and rural areas can be improved and the quality of the lives of the general public can be improved. As a result, these governmental departments made efforts to build and improve the infrastructure of environmental hygiene by focusing on the objectives of the campaign. The following activities were implemented in an intensive manner: the removal of domestic solid waste, the improvement of riverbed or canals, wastewater treatment, water and toilet renovation, and the transformation of farm product markets. As a result of such efforts, the periodical objectives of the 2010-2012 clean-up campaign have been basically achieved: 84.8 percent of the urban domestic solid wastes have been treated innocuously; 87.3 percent of urban wastewater has been treated; 12 percent of toilets in rural areas have been sanitized; 15 percent of drinking water in rural areas has met the sanitary quality standard; and more than 17,000 farm product markets have been renovated or built to standards. The clean-up campaign has improved the environment, which used to be “dirty, disorderly and bad” in urban and rural areas. Some livelihood-related problems that were of great concern to the people have also been solved.